Shown here as Dec 2022 - presumably not in the statement because Italy/TI isn't party to it.What about Zurich-Rome??????
https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/DE/Anlage/K/nachtzuege-durch-europa-en.pdf?__blob=publicationFile
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Shown here as Dec 2022 - presumably not in the statement because Italy/TI isn't party to it.What about Zurich-Rome??????
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.
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.
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.