Italy overnight train door lock

Most couchette doors lock from the inside.

I haven't looked, and clearly you have, but are there overnight trains from Milan to Rome? I thought they were pretty much the international trains from the north which will have reached Milan around 6ish and then continue south to arrive mid morning in Rome. In that case you will be awake and it won't be a concern. If not, and you've found a slow overnighter most compartments have hotel like locks. How much more protection do you need? Have you obtained the entire 4 or 6 bed compartment? If not you will be sharing and how about if that person or those people don't like your lock how will you deal with that?

Thanks. There's a slow overnighter that leaves Milan around 11:30 pm and gets in Rome at 7:30 am. We have the whole couchette for my girls, but I do know folks that have had their things stolen as its not hard for thieves to have one of the simple master keys. Just looking for one step beyond the train door lock for my girls.

If you are very concerned about this, maybe another option would be to use the bicycle lock on your suitcases to secure them to the bars on the bed. Use the mini travel padlocks to lock the zipper pulls together. I have done this when staying in hostels.

DO NOT add a lock to the train compartment door! That is a serious safety hazard if something goes wrong and people need to get to you or you need to get out. Lock your bags to the overhead bin or something secure. If in the most remote and unlikely event someone did sneak in to steal them, they wouldn't be able to. And finally, don't worry. Overnight trains are very safe and secure.

We always carry in our misc. items a rubber, wedge shaped door stop. We often shove it into the door at night especially if the door doesn't have night latch. Not familiar with the door set up on a train. If the door swing inward, then the rubber stop should work. If it is a pocket door it could still work if you can a place to wedge it and jam the door. Not a safety hazard as you could easily knock it out of the way if you need to leave the room in a hurry. I would agree that it would not be smart to attach some other type of lock.

NEVER, EVER do that. It is like asking to be killed should a fire erupt. Only use built-in locks. This being said, I'd just take a daytime cheaper and much faster trains. Why would anyone put her/his family through the crap, 1970-manufactured rolling stock that is used on that route is beyond any comprehension.

You don't necessarily need a lock. Just clip or hook something to the door that will make enough commotion to wake you up should someone try and enter.

What Andre said. Why would you turn a 3-hour journey into a night train, especially if you fear being robbed? It is so easy to do in the daytime. Why turn it into an ordeal?