{"id":183221,"date":"2025-06-14T07:46:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183221\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T07:46:14","slug":"private-rooms-on-new-german-night-trains-will-be-cheaper-than-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/183221\/","title":{"rendered":"Private rooms on new German night trains will be cheaper than flying"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Berlin-based startup has announced that it will launch a new night train service, offering passengers a private cabin for the same price as a plane ticket. The company will launch in 2027 and has plans to connect 100 European cities.<\/p>\n

Berlin night train startup will connect 100 European cities<\/p>\n

A new startup, Nox, has launched in Berlin<\/a> and announced plans to operate night train services<\/a> across Europe starting in 2027. The company says that by 2036, its night trains will connect 100 cities<\/a>, including Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Warsaw, Frankfurt<\/a>, Munich<\/a>, Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam<\/a>, Zurich<\/a>, Milan, Rome and Catania.<\/p>\n

Instead of carriages or compartments with seats, the night trains will only be fitted with private cabins. The startup plans to emphasise \u201cprivacy, good sleep and affordable prices”, with a two-metre-long bed in one of the private cabins costing 79 euros for a single, and 149 euros for a double.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The private cabins will be fitted with a luggage storage area, a comfortable chair and a fold-down table for eating or working<\/a> in front of a large window. There will also be food<\/a> available onboard, though it is unclear whether there will also be a dining carriage.<\/p>\n

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Nox will be \u201creal alternative to short-haul flights\u201d<\/p>\n

Announcing their launch<\/a>, Nox founders Janek Smalia and Thibault Constant said they intend to \u201cmake night trains an essential part of European travel\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Smalia previously worked at FlixTrain, while Constant worked at French transport company Alstom and France\u2019s national rail operator SNCF. Constant is also known for running the Simply Railway YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having already reserved the train coaches they will refurbish, Smalia and Constant said Nox will have a \u201cstrict focus on standardisation and operational excellence\u201d and aim to offer a \u201creal alternative to short-haul flights\u201d.<\/p>\n

European Commission also planning night train expansion<\/p>\n

Nox isn\u2019t the only company with such plans. Deutsche Bahn, SNCF and the European Sleeper are now among a growing list of rail operators expanding their European night train services.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The European Commission is also tapped in, having begun a pilot project for a train network the bloc is dubbing the \u201cEuropean Metro\u201d, which it hopes would reduce demand for short-haul flights. So far, only a new night train connecting Berlin, Munich, Rome, and Naples<\/a> has been announced as part of the project.<\/p>\n

According to a 2024 study by Greenpeace<\/a>, there are \u201calmost six times as many direct flight connections between European cities as direct train connections\u201d, and a 2023 study by the same organisation found that German trains are 51 percent more expensive than flights<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Berlin-based startup has announced that it will launch a new night train service, offering passengers a private…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[75215,75210,75214,75213,2000,299,75218,75216,1824,75212,75217,75209,19773,75211],"class_list":{"0":"post-183221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-affordable-night-trains","9":"tag-berlin-night-train-startup-nox","10":"tag-cheap-night-train-ticket-germany","11":"tag-cheap-night-trains-germany","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european-night-trains-cheap","15":"tag-german-night-trains","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-germany-night-trains","18":"tag-night-train-germany","19":"tag-night-trains-from-berlin","20":"tag-no","21":"tag-nox-night-trains-berlin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114680613399573245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}