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Austriantrain

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Not wanting to be that guy-but the EU isn't Europe. We're still part of Europe and decent rail connections to the Continent are surely still a plausible idea. The biggest trouble, I would expect is that we're not in Schengen as already said-but that's another coversation.

It has been said here several times before by several people, but I think the point still stands: Due to the specific immigration and security rules for Cross-Channel traffic, good connections (with good prices) at Lille to Daytime High Speed Services and - realistically - at Brussels (Lille as a terminus for Night trains is not realistic and Lille Europe does not have the capacity) to night trains is the best chance to integrate the UK in a pan-European network (meaning of course that everybody from North of London has to change at least twice, but since the HS2-HS1 link is dead and HS2 would not have the capacity anyway, I don’t see a realistic alternative to it).

On the night train side, in a number of years you might have trains from Brussels to Stockholm, Vienna and Berlin, which is not too bad.

For daytime connections, it would be even easier, if SNCF decided to up their game (as they apparently now intend to do for night trains, since they are part of the new cooperation). Unfortunately, these last years they have done the opposite, moving Lille - Mediterranee services to Ouigo and Lille Flandres, meaning they are basically useless for connections.
 

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Not exclusively about Germany or overnight trains but this article, https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/germany-plans-to-restore-tee.209471/page-2 says (amongst other interesting bits)

Austrian rail operator ÖBB has an expanding network of comfortable Nightjet services, and has announced that long-distance night trains will return to the Netherlands in 2021. Departures from Amsterdam every evening at 19.30 were due to start on 13 December, but ÖBB now expects an early 2021 start for this useful new overnight link. The main train will run to Vienna, but there will also be through carriages via Munich to to Innsbruck.

For passengers from London, a direct Eurostar at 11.04 gives a comfortable connection in Amsterdam, with three hours to explore the Dutch city before joining the night train to Austria. On those days when the Brussels to Vienna night train runs, passengers bound for the Austrian capital will be able to leave London later and connect there into the onward Nightjet. That service from Brussels will resume in early 2021, with the frequency nudged up to three times weekly.
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Many other additional services are likely to launch in the first few months of 2021. There has been talk of extending one of the Zurich to Milan high-speed services to Genoa which, if it comes to pass, will restore a direct link from Zurich to the Mediterranean.

On March 31, Swedish operator Snälltåget will launch a direct night train from Berlin and Hamburg to Stockholm, initially running at weekends but ramping up to daily from 5 June. This will be a boost for travellers from London who will be able to travel during the day from London via Brussels and Cologne to Hamburg, connecting there into the direct overnight service to Stockholm.
 

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Came across this presentation from the BMVI, it contains most of the high-level specifics, if this isn't an oxymoron: https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/EN/Documents/K/innovative-rail-transport-overnight-21-09-2020.pdf

Establishment of a company, for instance by SNCF and DB, in which other interested and ambitious railways (e.g. NS, ÖBB, SBB) could take a holding. This company would be approved as an independent railway undertaking and purchase services from the parent companies for production.

An attractive range of services could be crated using present-day infrastructure and timetable.
For business and leisure travellers, these services could very soon represent a climatefriendly alternative to air travel.
Since implementation requires “merely” coordination between railway undertakings with regard to timetables, certification issues, through trains and fares, implementation in the near future would appear conceivable.

It looks like they are actually considering end-to-end journeys when making these proposals attractive.
 

YorkshireBear

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Good to see, certainly seems that the current trend is expansion of international services.
 
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