Night trains from Malmö to Brussels and from Stockholm to Hamburg will be set up by the Swedish government by August 1, 2022, according to TV2,

The country will allocate around 400 million Swedish kroner (approximately 289 million Danish kroner) for the project. In the meantime, Denmark will support the initiative with 5 million kroner per year from 2021 until 2023.

Per Bolund, the Swedish minister of finance, has emphasised that there is a high interest in night trains in Sweden.

Sustainable travelling option
“Low-cost flights have taken up a large part of the journeys, but now more and more countries are charging an extra fee for the aircraft’s climate impact. And we also can see that the interest in sustainable travelling increases sharply,” Bolund told Swedish Radio.

In 2015, the night train operation from Denmark to south of the country was suspended due to the lack of financial profit for DSB and Deutsche Bahn, major railway companies.

In 2016, Germany completely gave up its night trains from and to Copenhagen for economic reasons.

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