Trains are cleaner, greener, more spacious and     1     (general) less troublesome than planes. Once     2    (view) as travel’s past, rail is now starting to look a lot like the future. In the USA, a huge expansion of the train network is drawing     3     (people) attention. And in Europe, some very cool plans have been made for a whole new generation of sleeper trains.

Sleeper services,     4     operate overnight between major destinations, get rid of the main disadvantage of train travel: the lengthy journey time. Like a red-eye flight on rail, you can board the train in the centre of one city and wake up in     5    , ready to drink a cup of coffee and explore.

Once numerous, Europe’s night trains have been cut back gradually over recent decades. But that trend is reversing (逆转).We’re very excited to hear about the     6     (announce) of five new European night train routes, launching over the next four years. A total of eight European countries     7     (link) by the new routes.

    8     short, your European travels over the     9     (come) years are going to involve hanging around not at airports     10     through railway stations. Needless to say, we’re into it. All aboard!