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It's goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train hit by French budget cut
The Guardian
|September 30, 2025
Night train services linking Paris with Berlin and Vienna will halt from mid-December owing to the French government's withdrawal of funding, the Austrian rail operator ÖBB has said, in a blow to sleeper travel on important European routes.
ÖBB, the largest provider of such trains in Europe, has led a drive to revive a once popular form of low-emission transport as an alternative to flying.
But the French public cash crunch has now deprived the service of a crucial lifeline, meaning it will be suspended before the end of year.
"Due to the discontinuation of government subsidies in France from 2026 onwards, we are unfortunately forced to discontinue the Vienna/Berlin-Paris (night train) connections from 14 December 2025," ÖBB said.
It said its French partner, SNCF, "was informed by the transport ministry in Paris that the public service orders for the operation of night trains between Vienna and Paris as well as Berlin to Paris will be suspended in 2026".
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