Austrians take night trains in Germany – t-online.de

The German track is out: Still train drivers in Germany can take night trains with sleeping and couchette cars in future. The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) to replace the majority of the connections to the timetable change on 11 December.

This is clear from internal documents, in which the path applications are documented for the night train in the coming year. They are the Green Bundestag member and railway experts Matthias Gastel. The new night train concept will be officially presented in September for information of the German Press Agency.

These routes are well provided

The ÖBB are the present path applications According to daily three Euro Night trains (EN ) can go in addition to sleeping, lying and sitting car through Germany. You will be traveling on the following routes:. Dusseldorf-Cologne-Frankfurt-Munich-Innsbruck, Hamburg-Berlin-Frankfurt-Karlsruhe-Basel and Hamburg-Hannover-Würzburg-Munich-Innsbruck

For the axis Basel -Zürich-Prague is a night train provided. Six other night trains ÖBB with sections in Germany to operate unchanged. No information was available to the Gastel night connections from Munich to Milan, Venice and Rome before.

Neither the ÖBB nor the German Railways wanted to give to the routes information. “We expect that we can get down to business in the fall of the night train segment is interesting for us, we want to expand it..”

German Railways: A ÖBB spokesman said only rich Minus the night train

the German railway runs by its own account for months with ÖBB talks on the continued operation of classical night trains. She herself wants regardless of increase the number of night-ICE, which are only equipped with seats.

The German Railways had announced the end of 2015, all existing lines of the classic night train service this December “in one step” adjust. The reason the company called years of losses in this business. So were 2015, around 90 million euros in sales came out 31 million euros minus. Most trains are over 40 years old, the necessary investments in modernization could not be recouping the company said.

For the German Bahn night trains are a niche business. Recently, there were 1.3 million bookings per year. Thus was just one of hundreds of passengers with a sleeping or couchette car on the road. The ÖBB do about the night passenger trains 17 percent of its sales.

In May of ÖBB Supervisory Board had approved the purchase of up to 60 used sleeping and couchette cars and 15 car carriers. In addition to 20 ÖBB intercity cars are transformed into couchette By mid-2019, for which there is already a design study. To what extent the ÖBB want to revive even the car train in Germany, is still open. One possibility would be to hang even car car to some of the night trains.