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Night Train from Prague to Ljubljana?

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I had seen posts on various travel forums referencing a night train from Prague to Ljubljana, and set up my itinerary to take advantage of it. However, now that I'm researching train tickets I cannot locate such a train. Perhaps a direct route used to be available years ago but was discontinued. Is there a possibility that there's a train that can't be booked online? I found Tripadvisor posts mentioning that, but they are from 7+ years ago.

Rome2Rio says there is a 13 hour train, but on closer inspection it is a train to Salzburg, and then a transfer. This wouldn't be so bad, except that I'm also having trouble locating the specific train.
https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Prague/Ljubljana

Best I've been able to find is this, but it appears that I'd have to change trains twice, once in the middle of the night on the way to Salzburg:
https://www.cd.cz/en/spojeni-a-jizdenka/spojeni-tam/c412c8dd-70ab-4530-bfde-56fd0f7543f2

Does anyone have any recent experience with this - am I missing something or is there an easier way to find these overnight trains? Thanks!

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Rome2Rio says there is a 13 hour train, but on closer inspection it is a train to Salzburg, and then a transfer. This wouldn't be so bad, except that I'm also having trouble locating the specific train.

Well, R2R has you take first the bus to Nuremberg, then the night train (!) for the short leg to Munich, then another train to Salzburg and finally yet another one to Ljubliana. That's probably not too relaxing. Alternatively, one could take the the evening ALX train from Prague to Munich (dep. 17:45, arr. 23:21) and from there the night train EN 50463 to Ljubliana (dep. 23:35, arr. 6:20), but, considering the punctuality record of that train, the transfer time is so short that I would consider it risky. Taking the bus instead (dep. 17:15 arr. 21:55) would give you a transfer time of 1:25 (1:35 minus 10 min. for the transfer from Munich ZOB to Hbf). Bus ticket start from €17.90 (saver fare), the train ticket including a bunk is approx. €70).

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