From CNN , this article is worth a few minutes , and provides some armchair diversion on a cold day - https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/europe-new-train-routes-2022/index.html
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San Diego, California
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Most helpful, thx for taking the time to share .
Safe travels!
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Los Angeles
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and of course the Man in Seat 61 tracks this stuff too (pun intended) AND does videos of many of them. A very good train vlogger is Simply Railway, a French lad named Thibault and he rides everything everywhere. Even all over the US.
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Vienna, Austria
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The Graz to Ljubljana is not new. I’ll fly to Paris from Vienna rather than take a 14 hour train ride.
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DFW TX, USA
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Saw that article earlier ... night train from Brussels to Prague might be a possibility next year ... instead of going back to Amsterdam from Brussels and then home, might add a few more days to the trip and go Brussels to Prague, 2-3 days in Prague and home from there ...
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L'Occitanie, France
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I used to do that Paris-Vienna at night quite often to see family in Vienna. It was Wagons Lits and you could get a sleeper, (crisp sheets, pillows, blankets made up), not a couchette. The two sleepers over the wheels were reserved for second class passengers--like me! These were triples, not doubles like for the first-class passengers in the sleeping car. It was much easier to sleep than those couchettes for six.
Interesting Steven.
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OP
white plains, ny, usa
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Bets , going back to 1980 , this travelogue has been a favorite . - London , the Night Ferry to Paris , Gare de Lyon to Central Europe . on the route of Wagon Lits - https://youtu.be/Xb9vTT2Nqi8
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Los Angeles
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The biggest issue with sleepers is, can you actually sleep? I guess that's something you won't know until you try. Years ago I had a sleeper on AMTRAK and, well, it wasn't restful.
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Uppsala, Sweden
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That is a question with a different answer for every person. I've travelled on many night trains and never had a problem sleeping.
It should also be noted that the Paris-Vienna night train is the original route of what might be the most famous train service in the world, the Orient Express.
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I have taken night trains with and without sleeper accommodations on about half a dozen trips in Europe.
The worst night train was from Berlin to Munich (sleeping accommodations were not offered). Trying to sleep in a regular upright seat was not so great.
The best was when my wife and I were married near Copenhagen, Denmark and we had a sleeper (first class) on the way back to Germany. We had the compartment to ourselves and it was great. We even had our own sink.
The other times, such as Munich to Paris and Munich to Rome we had second class sleepers with six persons in the compartment. Slept horizontally on a soft pad about two inches thick with a sheet on top and blanket on top of ourselves. You slept in clothing not pajamas. It was a family of four in the compartment with two strangers. I remember making placing my wallet and passport under my pillow inside the pillow case, in case someone tried to steal from us. Still, I remember sleeping pretty good and the price was nice.
Always wanted to take the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Vadivostock(sp).