Railway fans devastated by the scrapping of a much-heralded Berlin to Paris night train can breathe again after a Belgian-Dutch cooperative stepped in Wednesday to keep the service going.

French operator SNCF, and Austria’s OeBB, Europe’s key night train operator, had announced that the night route would be discontinued from mid-December after only being launched in December 2023.

But Belgian-Dutch European Sleeper, a cooperative, said it would launch a train three times weekly between the French and German capitals from March 26, 2026.

The company, founded in 2021, currently operates a single such train connecting Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden and Prague three times a week.

Departures from Paris on the new service are scheduled for Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, arrivi

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