{"id":279574,"date":"2025-07-21T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279574\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T09:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:10:16","slug":"france-opens-door-to-night-train-operator-bids-under-new-eu-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/279574\/","title":{"rendered":"France opens door to night train operator bids under new EU rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>France is taking preparatory steps towards launching its first competitive tender for publicly subsidised night trains, marking a shift in how EU countries deliver passenger services. A sourcing notice has been published to attract interest from potential operators, ahead of a formal procurement process which may commence in early May 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSubscribe to gain access to all news<\/p>\n<p>Already have a subscription? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railtech.com\/login\/?redirect_to=%2Fall%2F2025%2F07%2F21%2Ffrance-opens-door-to-night-train-operator-bids-under-new-eu-rules%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Log in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tChoose your subscription<\/p>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tWant to read this article for free?<\/p>\n<p>You can read <strong>one free article per month<\/strong>. Enter your email and we&#8217;ll send you a free link to access the full article. No payment required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France is taking preparatory steps towards launching its first competitive tender for publicly subsidised night trains, marking a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[1442,2000,299,36,105298,74605,105299,105300,47870,47873,105301,105302,105303],"class_list":{"0":"post-279574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-competition","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-night-train","13":"tag-night-trains","14":"tag-pso","15":"tag-public-service-obligation-pso","16":"tag-rail-liberalisation","17":"tag-railway-market-opening","18":"tag-subsidised-transport","19":"tag-train-subsidies","20":"tag-trains-dequilibre-du-territoire-tet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114890448934995598","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279574","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=279574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}