Connecting Europe Days 2024
The ALLRAIL team was present at the Connecting Europe Days 2024 in Brussels to join fellow stakeholders and discuss the future of rail competitiveness and connectivity across Europe.
ALLRAIL’s Katharina Dekeyser participates in panel discussion on the benefits of passenger rail market opening for Belgium
ALLRAIL’s Katharina Dekeyser participated in a panel discussion organised by RailTech Belgium, in which she highlighted the positive consequences that would benefit passengers in Belgium if the Belgian government chose to open its market.
‘Belgium’s approach to encouraging night trains should be emulated across Europe’
The Belgian measure in which night train operators will pay nothing for track access fees and energy over the next two years should be adopted across Europe, says ALLRAIL, which represents new entrants in passenger rail. The organisation celebrates the launch of European Sleeper last week, the “first ever – independently owned – scheduled long-distance rail operator to depart from Belgium”.
The First Ever Independent Scheduled Long-Distance Passenger Rail Service Departs from Belgium
A few days ago, history was made in Belgian passenger rail: European Sleeper was the first independently owned scheduled long-distance rail operator to depart from Belgium. Its new night train is commercially driven - not a Public Service Obligation (PSO) - and links Belgium, the Netherlands with Berlin in Germany.
