Passengers on a Trans Europe Express train travelling beside the River Rhine near Mainz in West Germany in 1971
Passengers on a Trans Europe Express train travelling beside the River Rhine near Mainz in West Germany in 1971. Its luxury trains stopped running in 1995 as it lost out to short-haul flights. Photograph: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images


source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/20/revival-of-trans-europe-express-key-to-eu-carbon-neutrality