Night trains linking Paris, Berlin and Vienna to halt as France cuts funding
by Deborah Cole in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#70CTB)
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
Night train services linking Paris, Berlin and Vienna will halt from mid-December due to the French government's withdrawal of funding, the Austrian national rail operator has said, in a blow to sleeper travel on important European routes.
OBB, 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.
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