Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
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#2Extremely cool and useful map! Night trains fill an important travel niche in terms of distance/comfort/time/eco-friendliness and can be super practical.
Recently I took a night train for the first time since I was a teen instead of a 40 minute flight for the comfort levels and the emissions, and it was surprisingly comfortable. Not a perfect night's sleep (I'm a light sleeper), but perfectly enjoyable.
PS: Sadly I doubt the Ukrainian night trains are all running at the moment..
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#3I would love to do this more! Trying to replace short flights with trains. I'm taking the Zürich - Venice one in a couple of weeks.
But I'm looking for example at Zürich - Amsterdam. 12 hours - 10pm to 10am, perfect. But it has a 2:45am - 3:15am change at Frankfurt, so it's actually a ~5h train followed by a ~7h train at a very inconvenient time. Sure, I'd be in Amsterdam by 10am, but after the equivalent of a terrible night. Is there a better way to do this kind of thing?
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#4This seems to be a great resource! However, when I looked at prices, seats are quite expensive. Does anyone have any advice for finding cheaper train tickets?
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#5Are these all proper sleeper trains? I took the one that goes from Gdańsk to Kołobrzeg in Poland many years ago (with a bunch of friends) going to a "copy party"(yes before the Internet we had parties for copying software in person, eventually they turned into demoscene events). We spent the entire night drinking beer and smoking weed, but this was in a normal 8 seat compartment. I don't remember if there were sleeper cars in the train too.
Also, this map doesn't show that there are many local train services that are aligned in time so people can come from off the main route to get on the sleeper train. So those trains can be seen less as connecting cities and more like connecting regions.
One could take a regional train from their all town to a big city then when one arrives there is a mad dash because you have 10 minutes before your sleeper train leaves (your train is usually late 9 min 30 s in such situations). In many cases when regional trains are late the sleeper will wait for them, but only giving people 30s a minute to disembark, find out where are they supposed to go, find the right train (not so easy at a big station) and get on.
I miss the times when those trains cost peanuts. One could go 400km for a price of 5l of fuel.
Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
#6Extremely cool and useful map! Night trains fill an important travel niche in terms of distance/comfort/time/eco-friendliness and can be super practical. Recently I took a night train for the first time since I was a teen instead of a 40 minute flight for the comfort levels and the emissions, and it was surprisingly comfortable. Not a perfect night's sleep (I'm a light sleeper), but perfectly enjoyable. PS: Sadly I d…
They are (the Ukrainian trains). :) I took one recently from Przemysl to Kyiv and back. On time, comfortable, highly recommend.
Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe
#7Extremely cool and useful map! Night trains fill an important travel niche in terms of distance/comfort/time/eco-friendliness and can be super practical. Recently I took a night train for the first time since I was a teen instead of a 40 minute flight for the comfort levels and the emissions, and it was surprisingly comfortable. Not a perfect night's sleep (I'm a light sleeper), but perfectly enjoyable. PS: Sadly I d…
They are (the Ukrainian trains). :) I took one recently from Przemysl to Kyiv and back. On time, comfortable, highly recommend.
I guess they are also needed, as flying is not possible (or highly hazardous) at the moment: https://safeairspace.net/ukraine/
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#8What is probably my favourite hotel/restaurant which is 15km up a single track road from the nearest village on the edge of the Moor of Rannoch is right next to where the wonderfully named Deerstalker train has a stop - so even though there are like 3 buildings in the middle of nowhere they have a direct train service from London:
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#9There is a clear lack of connection toward France and Spain.
EDIT: Paris is of course well connected, but southern France and Spain are not. I live in Zurich and it's quite easy to go north, south, and east by train, but going south-west towards Marseille, Toulouse, Barcelona is really inconvenient. And it's not just about Zurich, because doing so from Milan or Frankfurt, I would guess, is the same. However I heard of plans for a Zh-Barcelona night train, does anybody know anything about it?
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#10I would love to do this more! Trying to replace short flights with trains. I'm taking the Zürich - Venice one in a couple of weeks. But I'm looking for example at Zürich - Amsterdam. 12 hours - 10pm to 10am, perfect. But it has a 2:45am - 3:15am change at Frankfurt, so it's actually a ~5h train followed by a ~7h train at a very inconvenient time. Sure, I'd be in Amsterdam by 10am, but after the equivalent of a terrib…
Coincidentally I took Zurich-Amsterdam and Amsterdam-Zurich right this week. It was a direct nightjet sleeper, not sure what you're talking about.