Liberalization: where have we come? For freight trains, market forces have meanwhile become the almost absolute rule; the same applies to international passenger trains. For national passenger trains, market forces are still rather exceptional or, in some countries like Belgium, entirely non-existent. The Belgian train network forms an integrated system, with scheduled trains connecting with one another as best as possible, usually from six in the morning until twenty-three i

Unnoticed on Monday evening, the last NightJet night train Brussels-Berlin departed from Brussels South. Normally it would leave tonight...

In the end, the first Brussels-Venice night train operated by private operator European Sleeper did not make it past Innsbruck in the...

Unfortunately, the Swiss Federal Council is going back on its promise to subsidise night trains. Swiss Federal Railways SBB/CFF/FFS have...