The Alps-Sylt-night Express of the private rail provider RDC is to bring passengers as virus-free from the mountains to the sea.
Who wants to be relaxed in this summer and also a good climate conscience in the holiday break, it is difficult. In the train from Hamburg towards the mountains? Not a comfortable idea behind masks and without minimum in the large staff car space. From Munich, with children on full motorways of the North sea? Also not an attractive Alternative. Rarely the concern of tourists was larger, to arrive but, as in the Corona times.
A small railway company with seat in Hamburg looks exactly that as his Chance. Because of the private rail providers RDC starts from July on, a new offering that seemed for a long time yesterday. Too slow, too expensive, too little appreciated: night trains were actually considered to be a discontinued model, since the Deutsche Bahn in 2016 exit from the business, and only a few routes to the Austrian state railway ÖBB for the operation handed over. But now RDC ventures with their own trains at the Start. The new Alpine-Sylt-night Express at 4. To leave in July for its premiere ride.
Two Times a week, he will roll to September, from Sylt to Salzburg and back. The route leads through the town of Husum, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich and Prien am Chiemsee. It is chosen in such a way that it connects several major cities with holiday regions in the South and the North of the country. Cheap Waking up in the mountains or on the beach is not. The Tickets cost from 399 euros per journey and the direction in the sun car – regardless of the embarkation. But for the whole compartment and up to six persons – including linen and towels. For groups or families can count on the thing. If you are starting out in the evening, in the morning at the destination, the whole day, without having to pay for a Hotel. Masks do not need the passengers in their own compartment in the RDC.
Even before the Corona-crisis, the political pressure had grown, the range on the Rail in Germany to expand. At the end of last year, several German Green politicians have started an Initiative for a European night train network, “not nostalgia”, but as “an attractive Alternative to the European air traffic”. Also, the FDP is in favour of CSU transport Minister Andreas Scheuer is open to an Expansion of the night-time traffic””. The Deutsche Bahn has a hard time, but plans, as yet, no re-entry.
However, the Chance of a Renaissance for the night train to grow. Because the fly is likely to be in the Corona of a crisis significantly more expensive. Who wants to be in the morning at the destination, you could Dodge on the rails. The ÖBB hopes on a good Start, if your trains operate routes from Hamburg to Vienna and Zurich, as of the end of the month after a week-long Corona-stop driving. Before the crisis, you’ve registered because of the climate debate more compartments, says a ÖBB-speaker. “Starting this summer, we again expect increased travel.” In Hamburg, you think of long-further than from Sylt to Salzburg. More routes could follow it. For example, to Scandinavia.
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