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Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by itronitron »

Roark66 wrote: post #5

Are 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 sleepe…

This seems useful for finding which site has routes between which major cities. I tested out a few routes on nightjet and if you aren't traveling between capital cities then the route seems likely to include several transfers in the early morning hours (not exactly sleeper then). It would be nice if they showed the transfers up front, as I was only able to get them listed in a roundabout way.

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by moffkalast »

Roark66 wrote: post #5

Are 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 sleepe…

Yeah, a while back I was looking at booking a train for a decent distance and you could only get connections that had ~5 min or ~5 hours in padding, and nothing in between.

It's a real planning train wreck (ha) and god forbid you need an international connection.

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by contravariant »

Freak_NL wrote: post #24

I'm looking forward to the new Brussel–Amsterdam–Berlin sleeper line. Not sure if I'll manage to book something this year (the site was overloaded when it opened this week), but still cool.

That one seems a bit weird to me though, that doesn't sound like the kind of distance that requires an overnight stay.

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by rwmj »

Sleeper trains sound fun, but I found it tricky to sleep on. I don't think I can sleep in a bed which suddenly moves back and forth.

Anyway here's the cool video I took of our JR sleeper (Aomori City to Sapporo if I remember correctly, through the Seikan Tunnel the world's deepest tunnel at the time): http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/VID_20110215_213825.3gp (No idea what a 3GP file is, but it plays in my browser.)

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by rwmj »

martopix wrote: post #9

There 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 o…

Isn't that because of the Pyrenees, a rather large mountain range in the way?

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by petschge »

mns wrote: post #29
Roark66 wrote: post #5

Are 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 sleepe…

Not really. While it looks good on paper, booking some of these is quite a pain. I loved travelling by train as a kid, and would love to do it now, but when you compare the offers, it's quite bad. A flight is 1:15 between 2 places of interest for me. The train routes on this map exist (used it twice), but part of it is at night but only has normal compartments. Whole train journey is 15:34 (compared to 1:15 flight),…

Things could certainly be better, but it is a but disingenuous to give the pure flight time of 1:15, when we all know that flying has quite a bit of time requirements on both ends. Not enough to bring it to 15.5 hours, but still easily enough to triple the trip time.

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by grishka »

rwmj wrote: post #35

Sleeper trains sound fun, but I found it tricky to sleep on. I don't think I can sleep in a bed which suddenly moves back and forth. Anyway here's the cool video I took of our JR sleeper (Aomori City to Sapporo if I remember correctly, through the Seikan Tunnel the world's deepest tunnel at the time): http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/VID_20110215_213825.3gp (No idea what a 3GP file is, but it plays in my browser.)

The trick is to be very tired. Then it feels like teleportation.

Re: Night Train Map with all regularly served night train destinations in Europe

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Post by thriftwy »

grishka wrote: post #38

It's strange that Moscow and St Petersburg are both on the map, but the train route between them is not shown. It's very popular and very cheap. There are multiple trains per night every night.

In the first section of the article they refer to another map[1], which is more detailed and has Russian/Caucasus trains.

It is still lacking though - very detailed for Azerbaijan (some of which may not be served by proper sleepers?) but does not show many destination of Russian Caucasus (Makhachkala for example)

Looks like they only plot named trains.

Still, I was surprised to learn there is no sleeper rail connection between Russia and Baku, which turns out to be true.

1. http://www.night-trains.com/files/night-trains-europe-map.pn...

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