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From compartment to hotel room

The designer duo Patricia Bastard and Julien d’Hoker from Yellow Window, the firm that’s helping us design and lay out our trains, are lifting the veil on how they aim to ensure you have a fun, comfortable experience on board Midnight Trains.

Hervé Marro

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25.3.2022

5.6.2023

S03E04: the final stages of approval

In a railway sector where responsibilities are fragmented, manufacturers legion and with a growing need for interoperability, what manufacturing rules must trains respect and how can you ensure they are compatible with the existing infrastructure?

Nicolas Bargelès

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4.3.2022

5.6.2023

S03E03: The 12 stages of train approval

Having told you about the huge regulatory changes that have taken place in the rail industry over the past decades, now we’ll be tackling the specifics of the trains themselves.

Nicolas Bargelès

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25.2.2022

5.6.2023

S03E02: Getting the go-ahead

Since European railway space was created, there’s no need to be a historic operator to run rail services on the Continent. But what authorisations do you have to obtain first?

Nicolas Bargelès

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18.2.2022

5.6.2023

S03E01: What does 'open access' mean?

This season aims to help you better understand railway regulation in Europe, and thus everything Midnight Trains is having to reckon with before we can welcome you on board our trains from early 2024. So in the rail sector, does the exception prove the rule?

Nicolas Bargelès

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11.2.2022

5.6.2023

Nicolas Bargelès, from Eurostar to Midnight Trains

Nicolas Bargelès has joined us as director of railway operations after a glittering career that’s taken him from the Réseau Ferré de France to Thello to Eurostar. Throughout, his aim has always been to promote the train as a means of travel.

Hervé Marro

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4.2.2022

5.6.2023

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Yellow Window, the French touch of train design

Julien and Patricia are both sold on the dream-like suspension of time that goes hand in hand with the sleeper-train experience – a far cry from the hectic, speed-at-all-costs approach that applies to most other forms of rail travel.

Hervé Marro

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14.1.2022

9.6.2023

The Midnight Trains logo, explained by its creator, Yorgo Tloupas

‘The Midnight Trains logo is simple and evocative, as a matter of principle and by necessity. Four lines converge to form an M for midnight, combined with a typography created exclusively for the brand, with its G resembling a train station clock and simple, stable, timeless lettering. Fitting in with our goal of reinventing the night train, our logo is neither nostalgic nor tied to any passing trends.

Hervé Marro

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8.1.2022

9.6.2023

Victor le Masne, the sound magician

So, what’s a sound architect? It’s the only way we could think of encapsulating the talents of Victor le Masne. This 39-year-old from Paris is a composer, musician, producer, singer (admittedly, not so often nowadays) and multi-instrumentalist.

Hervé Marro

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25.12.2021

9.6.2023

A huge milestone for Midnight Trains

We’ve just signed a major partnership with TravelPerk. And we’re chuffed: TravelPerk is the world’s number-one travel management platform for businesses. That means they’re the guys organisations have the most faith in when it comes to planning business trips for their employees.

Hervé Marro

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18.12.2021

9.6.2023

A beginner’s guide to designing trains S02E05

That’s the subject of our final instalment: materials and colours. Last time, we made a lot of references to the fact that senses are all-important when it comes to the impression we want to give passengers: the way things look and feel (or even smell) is key.

Romain Payet

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11.12.2021

9.6.2023

A beginners’ guide to designing trains S02E04

We’re moving onto the next stage: how to go about integrating all the functional and technical elements required on board. We’re going to imagine the practical needs of passengers on our trains, the potential points of friction, and attempt to offer some solutions too.

Romain Payet

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4.12.2021

9.6.2023

A beginner’s guide to designing trains S02E03

After a first season dedicated to how you go about buying trains, this time we are exploring how to design trains, in five main instalments (though no doubt we will return to the subject, since design will play such a huge part in our mission to reinvent the sleeper train).

Romain Payet

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27.11.2021

9.6.2023

A beginner’s guide to designing trains S02E02

We’re going to make sure that inventory fits within the limited space of the train, assuring both comfort and optimal use of square footage, in order to define the layout of the carriages.

Romain Payet

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20.11.2021

9.6.2023

A beginners’ guide to designing trains S02E01

Before going about buying trains, there are a number of key steps related to design that are essential because they’ll allow you to analyse the compatibility of the material as it is and to work out the costs of renovation, or to prepare the list of costs once you’ve consulted with manufacturers.

Romain Payet

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13.11.2021

9.6.2023

So, who exactly writes this? A self-portrait by Hervé Marro

It’s always pretty easy writing about others. Since the launch of Midnight Trains, that’s what I’ve been doing in this newsletter: allowing you to get to know the talented team of individuals who’ve come together to make our sleeper-train company a success.

Hervé Marro

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23.10.2021

9.6.2023

Thierry Roussel - An expert in opening new markets

Thierry Roussel is one of the four (fantastic) advisers who are helping our co-founders Adrien Aumont and Romain Payet make the key strategic decisions that’ll allow you to climb aboard our trains from 2024.

Hervé Marro

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2.10.2021

9.6.2023

Cyril Aouizerate, at your service

Cyril Aouizerate, one of the four (fantastic) advisers whose role is to help our co-founders, Adrien Aumont and Romain Payet, make the right strategic choices that will allow you to climb aboard our trains from 2024.

Hervé Marro

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25.9.2021

9.6.2023

Franck Gervais, man of many talents

Franck Gervais is one of the four (fantastic) advisers whose role is to help co-founders Adrien Aumont and Romain Payet make the key strategic decisions that will allow you to climb aboard our trains from 2024.

Hervé Marro

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18.9.2021

9.6.2023

Odile Fagot: a train expert like no other

Odile Fagot is one of our four advisers, whose role is to aid our co-founders, Adrien Aumont and Romain Payet, on their strategic decisions – ones that should allow you to climb aboard our trains from 2024.

Hervé Marro

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11.9.2021

9.6.2023

Yorgo Tloupas - My kingdom for a logo

Even if you don’t think you know him, Yorgo Tloupas is one of those people you may well have bumped into, at one time or another. Look around you: it’s very possible that the fruit of his imagination is lying right in front of you.

Hervé Marro

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4.9.2021

9.6.2023

A beginners' guide to buying trains S01E03

We’ve now come to what is probably the juiciest subject of the lot: how do you finance all this stuff? When you’re a newcomer in the rail sector, there are two possibilities.

Romain Payet

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28.8.2021

9.6.2023

A beginner's guide to buying trains S01E02

Having explained last week how and why a new rail operator might go about purchasing used material, this week we’ll be focusing on new equipment – both its advantages and disadvantages.

Romain Payet

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21.8.2021

9.6.2023

A beginners' guide to buying trains S01E01

We take you behind the scenes of Midnight Trains HQ. And so why not start from the very top? Right now we’re going to explain how exactly we’re going about buying our trains.

Romain Payet

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14.8.2021

9.6.2023

Romain Payet - a family of pioneers

We continue to introduce you to those who make the Midnight Trains adventure possible. After getting to know Adrien Aumont, it is Romain Payet, co-founder, that we present to you today.

Hervé Marro

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10.7.2021

9.6.2023

Adrien Aumont - Getting on the right tracks

The principal aim of Midnight Trains is to overhaul the sleeper-train sector – and revolutionise how we travel comfortably (and sustainably) in the twenty-first century.

Hervé Marro

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3.7.2021

9.6.2023

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