Wanna Take a Night Train? Better Hurry......?

Eileen,

Looks like a link to a home away apartment in the CT.

Maybe this is the article Eileen is referring to: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/europe-night-trains-sleeper-service

Sam, I meant to do that. Just seeing if anyone is paying attention ;-) Not entirely sure how that happened...but it's corrected.

I saw Maryam's article a week ago. I find that the statement "According to figures quoted by Die Zeit, German night trains’ passenger numbers in the past decade have increased from just 60,000 to 1.5 million. This is a sector reviving, not dying." must be a mistranslation. I traced the link back to Die Zeit and used google translate on it. The result was laughable, so I think it must be ...increased by 60,000 to 1.5 million...

Anyway, time will tell.

If you want to see night trains continue, please sign this petition, http://www.foei.org/news/petition-save-the-european-night-train-sign-now/

It's a pity that sleepers on night trains are on the hit list to be phased out should that continue. My next trip earmarked for May 2015 includes a night train ride. I've factored that in as part of the trip but not the sleeper option. Let some other passenger who needs it book the sleeper option.

I wonder how many of the dozen or so night train routes I took in the halcyon days of 2006-08 are no longer in service. I know of at least two, Heidelberg-Paris and Zurich-Florence.

Now I feel bad that we have been bashing night trains on our advice.

Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you got till its gone.

Note that the article Eileen links to might make some readers think that all Paris-Italy Thello trains were cancelled, but they only cancelled the one to/from Rome. There still is overnight service to/from Milan, Venice, and points between.

It seems that those night train routes targeted for elimination are certain international lines. If they ever get around to dropping almost all international lines, I'll really worry then, (that means I'll have to change one of my ways of traveling !), However, I'm betting that the interior CNL routes will still be around somewhat longer.