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The other day I got thinking - apropos of this shot of the two trains having a rare meetup - about whether there's a world in which the Berlin-Stockholm EuroNight falls into European Sleeper's hands. My thinking was: at the end of July SJ are pulling out and RDC are going it alone, but RDC don't...

They've been doing both in recent years. The bond loan schemes have got a bit less attention but every now and then they've run limited schemes where people can put in €2k+ with the promise of 10%/yr returns, or something like that. Indeed as their email says, "Since 2021, nearly €16 million has...

An email from ES this morning advertises another €2 million bond loan scheme launching on 19 May. It says it will fund the following, with a nice map of potential future connections... ...but it very much feels like more bridge funding to get them through to the promised day when the three...

Very true. Also the Transalpin (Zurich-Graz) sometimes has an OeBB compartment coach.

To be clear, they're not considering giving the lines actual names. The fixed options on the survey are: T1/T2/T3 A/B/C Birmingham - Wolverhampton/Birmingham - Dudley/Wolverhampton - Dudley T1 Birmingham - Wolverhampton/T2 Birmingham - Dudley/T3 Wolverhampton - Dudley A matching set of...

Good to see that plans are afoot to split the network into lines. The survey includes various options for line descriptors based on numbers, letters or words, but all relatively simple. And there's no indication of what this will mean for the Millennium Point stub. Presumably it will be served...

Departure board now working at Millennium Point. Amusingly, from spending far too much time watching the trams go by out my window, this mostly seems to have served to increase the number of people who get to the stop and look at the board, frown, look at their phone, then decide they'd be...

In lighter news, they're giving out Metro goodies at the Millennium Point stop today, and Metro tickets can be exchanged for a free coffee in the Clayton Hotel. I noted that the departure boards still aren't working at the new stops (and not feeding through to Google Maps etc) - didn't get a...

They've now followed up on this and said that they're aware of an error that is preventing Millennium Point from appearing and they're working to resolve it, but they don't have a timeline for this.

I very strongly suspect if you book a Comfort Standard Sleeping Car then Comfort Standard is indeed what you'll get. SNCB aren't doing anything wrong here, it's European Sleeper that have chosen to 'upgrade' some of their couchettes and classify them as sleepers (i.e. Comfort rather than...

They've said on X that "for trams to the new stops the information boards will say Edgbaston Village via Millennium Point". I suppose once people have experienced the slow trundle to Millennium Point and back once they'll quickly learn to skip it next time around... (But as someone who lives...

For what it's worth I've always found ES staff to be an absolute delight. Sounds like it must be a pretty mixed bag then. I guess that's the downside of outsourcing your staffing! I can't help but feel like it would be better for them to ditch the AB30s entirely at this point and just provide...

The train composition on the website has been updated. Now showing 2 x Comfort Plus, 2 x Comfort Standard, 4 x Classic. 1774547975 And, from Jon Worth's video, that is indeed how it looked as it departed Paris (more or less on time): https://bsky.app/profile/jonworth.eu/post/3mhy4eumwu22k. In a...

Particularly odd given that in a picture taken by a spotter yesterday of an ECS move into Paris, it very much looked like two of the eight coaches were the new AB33 sleepers (the 4th and 7th): https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7442526689106137088

They are doing overnight works on various lines that are disrupting the night trains. From the page here you can download pdfs for each route which have graphics showing the dates they expect services to run, but unfortunately these only go up to the end of June at the moment...

As some had speculated, European Sleeper have indeed got hold of one (or more) of the AB33s released from the Amsterdam-Zürich Nightjet which they will be using on the Paris route from Thursday. Looks like they've got some more of the 5-berth couchettes too - all of this via RDC/Train Charter...

Of course if you belive the Metro, they'll have an interchange with Moor Street - albeit one that involves coming out of the station and walking across to Albert Street - any day now...

I suspect so. Though the likes of the Man in Seat 61 are already describing taking "the original scenic Gotthard route in daylight" as a bonus and they're not entirely wrong - if you're arriving late anyway and mostly serving a leisure crowd it probably doesn't hurt you that much to take another...

Yes, the press release explains a lot of it. The change of route is because this route looks more reliable long term, which is reasonable. Clearly there's more to the delayed start date than just track work - they immediately give away that they're still waiting for certification in Switzerland...

Their most recent email newsletter said "More news about opening ticket sales soon!" - more often than not this tends to mean the next week's email.