The future of sustainable travel.
Luna Rail is building modular private cabins that turn any railcar into a comfortable, profitable day-and-night train competing with short-haul flights.
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Why night trains cannot compete.
Night trains emit a fraction of the CO₂ per passenger-km compared to aviation, and are in theory favored by many passengers. But today's sleeper night trains often lack comfort and privacy, carry too few passengers, and sit idle during the day.
This limits both their appeal and their economics, resulting in expensive ticket prices.
Today operators face a painful tradeoff. A six-person couchette fits 60 passengers per railcar but offers little comfort or privacy. A two-person sleeper is comfortable but only carries 20.
Neither works for solo travellers, the largest segment of the market. And without interiors that are genuinely attractive by day and by night, the vehicles only run overnight routes and sit idle for half the day.
No existing night train offers privacy, comfort and affordability at once.
Luna Rail does.
HotelPod.
Your private cabin.
A private single cabin for every passenger. 35 per railcar, the highest single-cabin count of any single-deck train.
By day, a spacious sofa becomes your personal living room or mobile office. At night, it converts into a full-size bed. Variants for two or three passengers are also available.
SeatPod.
Full privacy at high capacity.
A large private seat by day that converts into a full lie-flat bed at night with direct aisle access and true individual privacy for every passenger. 65 passengers per railcar, 85% of them in solo cabins.
That's 50% more capacity than the closest competing single-cabin approach, while delivering superior comfort in both day and night modes.
How it compares.
Built in the real world.
Our focus is the development of the technology and design, with a laser of focus on user experience.
All our cabin types have been tested and optimized in several generations of full-scale prototypes, with over 250 participants.
Our Testers rate our cabins highly and more than 80% of our testers would be are willing to pay more than more than the break-even ticket cost.
This allows profitability and competitiveness against aviation, freeing night trains from subsidies, enabling a real expansion of the network.
A majority of testers rated a day trip in the SeatPod more attractive than 2nd class on a high-speed train; 32% preferred it over 1st class. For the HotelPod, 49% preferred it over 1st class.
88% rated the SeatPod sleeping position satisfactory or better. For the HotelPod, that figure was 94%.
At €100 for a 1,000 km overnight trip, 83% of testers found the SeatPod attractive, compared to 35% for a bed in a shared couchette and 40% for a budget airline flight. At €150, 66% found the HotelPod attractive, against 25% for a full-service airline.
As seen on…
Re: Im Nachtzug von Ost nach West
June 2026
ARTE Re did a feature on the renaissance of European night trains and came by our office to see what their future might look like. The documentary also features Back on Track, who supported us early on by taking part in our tests.
Einfach Genial / Simply Genious: Nachtzug-Revolution - Sieht so der Nachtzug der Zukunft aus?
February 2025
The MDR (German national TV) produced a documentary about our idea, technological development and tests in their "Einfach Genial" format, which showcases inventors and startups developing new technology.
DW News: Mini-cabins for affordable night train trips
January 2026
The Deutsche Welle crew visited us in our lab and tried our night train cabin prototypes. During the interview we also talked about our development journey, process and night train
economics. You can watch our segment on the Global US show on 2:50 mark in the video.
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