And it is immediately a daydream, a model charm Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen, a return to the glories of taste and quality of life of a century ago. With a surplus of sensitivity to environmental problems that grip the contemporary age. That masterpiece of elegance and precision darted back The Blue Train, one of the early trains at night, all in blue (and gold), with sophisticated sleeping cars and two sumptuous dining and bar cars.
At the time, from the early decades of the twentieth century onwards, it connected the north of France with the Riviera. From Calais, the cradle of English tourism, to Menton, passing through Marseille, Cannes, Antibes, Monte Carlo. Now (its restart is set for April 16 at 20.52 at Austerlitz station of Paris), will connect the Ville Lumière with Nice, where it will arrive every day at 9.11 in the morning. Very romantic and evocative, that’s for sure.
The route was canceled in 2007, sacrificed on the altar, as has happened everywhere, of low cost and high speed flights. But the Covid epidemic sent the former into crisis, while the ecological demands supported by the Greta Thunberg generation did the rest. And so here I suddenly bloom again night trains, starting with this historic jewel on rails, beloved, in that magical era, by the beautiful world, by icons such as Coco Chanel e Marlene Dietrich and by writers of the rank of Jean Cocteau. Agatha Christie he had dedicated the novel to him in 1928 “The mystery of the blue train”. Four years ago it was called just like that, Blue Train, a ballet created by the great Sergej Djagilev, ed this is always the name (and homage) of the extraordinary Parisian restaurant Art Noveau of the Gare de Lyon, opened at the dawn of the twentieth century.
40 million euros, the amount invested in the operation and in the deep make-up. The fifty carriages the revived glory of transport will enjoy, in the wake of this tradition of grandeur, with all the comforts and, a sign of the times, with wi-fi. Prices will tend to be contained. And it will be the first of a dense series launched or restarted by the French political authorities. Since last year, on the occasion of the national holiday of July 14, President Macron had announced: “We will restart the trains at night“. In fact, a dozen post-evening lines should open between now and 2030. In December it will be the turn of the Vienna-Munich-Paris, in 2022 the Zurich-Rome and, in 2023, the rebirth of the mythological Paris-Berlin. Because the future is a past that has yet to amaze.
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