20/01/2020 (Agence Europe) – A new nighttime railway line run by the Austrian operator ÖBB linking Vienna to Brussels was inaugurated in the Austrian capital on Sunday 19 January. After a journey of about 14 hours, the train arrived the next day, shortly before 11.00 am, at Brussels-South station. “Finally, a clean and convenient alternative to flying to the centre of Europe from Belgium!”, welcomed MEP Karima Delli (Greens/EFA, France), chair of the European Parliament’s Transport Committee, while calling on major European operators to replicate the initiative across Europe. Welcoming the return of the night train to Belgium after 16 years of absence due to the development of low-cost airlines, the NGO Greenpeace recalled for its part that the total climate impact of a train journey to Vienna from Brussels is eleven times less than the impact of the same journey made by plane. (DG)