New night train connections

Thanks for posting this!

Can't wait to try the Vienna route...

Thanks Mark! I’ve been looking forward to this confirmation and am hoping to take the Amsterdam-Zürich train in late May.

Absolutely fantastic ! That connection Vienna to Paris by night train is most definitely a viable option for my trip next summer.

Thanks for this information.

The DB was so incredibly stupid to stop all night trains and leave all that to the ÖBB. Now that everyone is talking about climate change and realizing that connections within Europe are just as comfortable or even better to reach by train, they are - fortunately - rediscovering night trains, sleepers, and couchettes. What a wonderful concept, to get into a train in the evening and wake up in the morning at your destination, with a good night's sleep in between! I am just waiting for my hotel room on wheels to take me all the way down to Athens. O.k., that's not a connection that will work any time soon, I am afraid...

I read the news that Czech rail operator RegioJet is planning to start a night train from Kraków>Prague>Brno>Budapest>Zagreb>Rijeka/Split in summer 2022. This summer the route to Croatia started from Prague. May be worth keeping an eye on it if you are interested in visiting these parts of Europe by train.

There are more coming, hopefully. Would be a great way to reduce our carbon footprint, and an enjoyable way to travel at the same time.

I'm still going to fly to Paris. Night trains are a big NO for me.

Another new night train is Stockholm-Hamburg that returns next year.

I always thought that DB was making a decisive mistake when it abolished City Night Line in Dec 2015 given the passengers one saw; It seemed to me that CNL was overpriced with its sleeper option. That night trains would go out of style to justify its discontinuance has luckily proved to be incorrect.

Night service still continued minus certain lines. (Paris to Munich, Munich to Amsterdam, etc). ÕBB made the correct decision to assume operating night train service (Night Jet) using certain cities as hubs (Munich, Budapest, Vienna) in Central Europe and to Italy.

But for major expansion, it really needs governments to get a grip and
restrict/ban flights on the same routes.

For starters, it might help if they'd simply stop subsidizing kerosene.

Based on IATA this would help help only on domestic flights. Otherwise no effect.

Well, obviously, for intercontinental flights, there aren't that many environmentally friendly alternatives, unless you want to go by sailboat. But for flights within a continent (no matter if domestic or international), there are alternatives. Or there could be.

absolutely.

And since Boris wants to build a tunnel under or bridge over the Irish sea there will (might) be train travel between islands.

Get on a train in Ireland, sleep through the Irish Sea and most of England, through the Channel Tunnel, all the way to Berlin or Vienna or Rome....

... could happen ...

I want a railroad tunnel from here to Hawaii... :D

The Hamburg to Stockholm night connection is a very viable option, no need to go Berlin to take the Berlin to Malmö night train to reach Sweden when I am in North Germany.

Be also aware that the train Snälltåget is not operated every day of the year, e. g. not for 3 weeks in November.

And be prepared that you might be waken up two times due to border passing - source: travel report (in German).

Thanks. Very informative, good to know. Basically , no problem at all with 19 hours. That reminds me of my first trip in Sweden in 1971, likewise with border checks at night.

We did the Nightjet first class private sleeper car from Zurich to Vienna a month ago, it was a blast and so nice to leave at 10 pm and get into Vienna at 8 am.