jamesontheroad
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From Wirtschafts Woche today, a well placed source says that DB is exploring how to reintroduce night trains.
Link: https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/kooperation-mit-oebb-deutsche-bahn-prueft-comeback-der-nachtzuege/25010634.html
Roughly translated...
(This is three years after DB discontinued all their CityNightLine routes, indeed selling some of its remaining rolling stock to other operators, including ÖBB and more recently Snälltåget.
Link: https://www.wiwo.de/unternehmen/dienstleister/kooperation-mit-oebb-deutsche-bahn-prueft-comeback-der-nachtzuege/25010634.html
Roughly translated...
Deutsche Bahn is considering collaborating with ÖBB on night trains. Passenger numbers have increased and the demand in the market is there.
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Three years after the end of the CityNightLine, DB is considering whether to reintroduce its night trains. There are considerations, says a familiar with the process corporate manager. However, Bahn does not want to run the business this time alone, but with partners abroad. The board is in "first talks" with the Austrian (ÖBB) and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), it says in group circles. Bahn boss Richard Lutz himself drives the idea forward.
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Three years after the end of the CityNightLine, DB is considering whether to reintroduce its night trains. There are considerations, says a familiar with the process corporate manager. However, Bahn does not want to run the business this time alone, but with partners abroad. The board is in "first talks" with the Austrian (ÖBB) and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), it says in group circles. Bahn boss Richard Lutz himself drives the idea forward.
(This is three years after DB discontinued all their CityNightLine routes, indeed selling some of its remaining rolling stock to other operators, including ÖBB and more recently Snälltåget.