Everyone is blaming everyone else. Shame really. Maybe they will come back in another decade or two
Well, a train fanatic is trying to start a overnight rail service in 2027. This is their site: https://noxmobility.com/
If this wasn’t Thibault, I would have believed this as another implausible project by some bro who rode the train twice in his life. I wish them good luck but can’t really that much, being in another country , Ro, with even worse train situation :)))
A few more insights I got in a reply in another thread: https://jonworth.eu/sncfs-half-hearted-effort-to-support-international-night-trains-in-danger-of-hitting-the-buffers/
The usual politics and indifference: SNCF is unable to create a ticketing system+frontend clean enough that they can fix and integrate easily to sell cross-country tickets (“Une erreur c’est produite” has been the motto of their user frontend for 20 years already), other technical details are even more preposterous:
ÖBB uses a leased Siemens Vectron locomotive for the Nightjet to Brussels, but that option is not open here – France is pretty much the only standard gauge European country where Vectron is not approved to run.
Haven’t used it myself but I’ve seen good reviews from folks on Mastodon for https://www.12train.com/
