New Sleeper Train That Connects London and Stockholm to Start Operating From September
According to Euronews, the EuroNight service will start running in September and will transport passengers from Stockholm to the German city of Hamburg, AtoZSerwisPlus.com reports.
The new train will cut train travel time between Sweden’s capital and London to roughly one day.
The EuroNight train is powered by renewable energy; Swedish operator SJ only uses electricity from hydropower and wind turbines.
According to the announcement, travellers can catch the Eurostar train to Brussels, which takes two hours. However, travellers are required to book an early Eurostar in order to ensure they arrive before midday. At the same time, from Brussels Midi Station, passengers need to take a train to Hamburg-Altona, changing at Cologne HbF, while this journey takes seven hours.
“You travel from Brussels to Cologne by superb German ICE train, with a restaurant car, power sockets at all seats, and free WiFi. You then travel from Cologne to Hamburg by comfortable Intercity train with bistro car,” travel site The Man in Seat 61 reads.
Authorities in European countries are continuously attempting to shift towards more sustainable transport alternatives; however, a recent report conducted by European Statistic provider, Eurostat, showed that the main means of transport of European citizens continue to be cars, after a total of 82.8 per cent of all passengers use trains for their daily travel.
The report of Eurostat revealed that the data passengers and kilometres recorded inside the EU in 2019, before the spread of the Coronavirus, remained the same, dropping by only one per cent since 2017.
It noted that countries that stand out the most using cars are the following:
- Norway, 89.1 per cent
- Iceland, 88.8 per cent
- Lithuania, 90.6 per cent
Authorities in Germany introduced a new plan in order to encourage passengers to travel more by train, by lowering the price per ticket to €9. Such a decision was taken to make the travel process within the country more sustainable.
Regarding the issue, the Federal Statistical Office said that during June, which was the first month in which travellers could buy a train ticket, which costs less, trips by train increased notably.
“In June 2022, movements in rail transport across Germany were an average 42 per cent higher than in June 2019. In May 2022, they had been by three per cent higher than in May 2019,” a statement of the office reveals.
