#sleepertrain — Public Fediverse posts

The #NightTrain resurgence across #Europe in 2026 is a massive win for #EcoFriendly travel and public transit. Operators like ÖBB, Trenitalia, and Deutsche Bahn are expanding #RailTravel with over 40 active routes.

By choosing a #SleeperTrain from #Paris to #Vienna or #Milan to #Rome, you reduce your travel #CarbonFootprint by 90% compared to flying. Modern cabins feature Wi-Fi, breakfast, and private bathrooms from €50–€200. Plan ahead and explore sustainable journeys!
https://europa.tips/en/europe-night-train-routes

The #NightTrain resurgence across #Europe in 2026 is a massive win for #EcoFriendly travel and public transit. Operators like ÖBB, Trenitalia, and Deutsche Bahn are expanding #RailTravel with over 40 active routes.

By choosing a #SleeperTrain from #Paris to #Vienna or #Milan to #Rome, you reduce your travel #CarbonFootprint by 90% compared to flying. Modern cabins feature Wi-Fi, breakfast, and private bathrooms from €50–€200. Plan ahead and explore sustainable journeys!
https://europa.tips/en/europe-night-train-routes

@patrickhadfield @Ciarancuffe @backontrack

I took #London-#Inverness #CaledonianSleeper 3 years ago.

Compared to ÖBB #nightjet in #Germany, I had much better sleep (and I'm not an easy sleeper...) : the track is noisier (tack-a-tack) but this actually is sufficiently monotonous to help rather than prevent sleep, and we had much fewer stop-and-goes (in Germany, train stops, reverses, re-reverses in fully lighted railway complexes, which woke me up a couple of times)

#nightTrain #sleeperTrain

@patrickhadfield @Ciarancuffe @backontrack

I took #London-#Inverness #CaledonianSleeper 3 years ago.

Compared to ÖBB #nightjet in #Germany, I had much better sleep (and I'm not an easy sleeper...) : the track is noisier (tack-a-tack) but this actually is sufficiently monotonous to help rather than prevent sleep, and we had much fewer stop-and-goes (in Germany, train stops, reverses, re-reverses in fully lighted railway complexes, which woke me up a couple of times)

#nightTrain #sleeperTrain

https://www.alojapan.com/1496905/there-is-a-new-luxury-way-to-explore-japan-by-train/ There is a new luxury way to explore Japan by train #JapanTrips #Kyushu(Island) #SevenStars #SleeperTrain #trips While Japan is known globally for everything from a centuries-old culture and modern pop culture to its cuisine, those who have visited the country even once will also associate it with a robust train system — both the local futsu trains taking locals throughout the cities and to nearby suburbs and the ultra-fast Shinkansen that

[Video] 𝗔 𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲

Reporting for BBC Travel Show, Roma Wells finds out if it's still possible to get from #Istanbul to #Paris by sleeper train.

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0n49kwy/watch via #BBC

📷 BBC Travel Show

#TheTravelShow #Train #Trains #Railway #Railways #Railroad #NightTrains #SleeperTrain #Europe #Travel #RomaWells

the key for a successful journey on a sleeper train is bringing your own pillow
#Trains #SleeperTrain

the key for a successful journey on a sleeper train is bringing your own pillow
#Trains #SleeperTrain

For the first time in my life, I'm aboard a #SleeperTrain, and I'm loving it! Maybe a steamboat could hold a candle to this experience, but I doubt it.

OBB #NightJet will take my friend and me to Rosenheim, where we'll transfer to a train to Salzburg in the morning. In the mean time, I'm wearing my NightJet branded slippers and drinking my complementary little bottle of Sekt.

What a life!

For the first time in my life, I'm aboard a #SleeperTrain, and I'm loving it! Maybe a steamboat could hold a candle to this experience, but I doubt it.

OBB #NightJet will take my friend and me to Rosenheim, where we'll transfer to a train to Salzburg in the morning. In the mean time, I'm wearing my NightJet branded slippers and drinking my complementary little bottle of Sekt.

What a life!

Le train de nuit reprend du service entre Paris et Berlin

> La coopérative belgo-néerlandaise European Sleeper relance la liaison symbolique entre les capitales française et allemande, abandonnée en décembre 2025 par la SNCF.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2026/03/25/le-train-de-nuit-reprend-du-service-entre-paris-et-berlin_6674255_3234.html

#train #paris #berlin #sleeperTrain #france #deutschland

Le train de nuit reprend du service entre Paris et Berlin

> La coopérative belgo-néerlandaise European Sleeper relance la liaison symbolique entre les capitales française et allemande, abandonnée en décembre 2025 par la SNCF.

https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2026/03/25/le-train-de-nuit-reprend-du-service-entre-paris-et-berlin_6674255_3234.html

#train #paris #berlin #sleeperTrain #france #deutschland

Last night was my first ever aboard a sleeper train! I took the European Sleeper (ES 452) from Berlin Gesundbrunnen to Bruxelles-Midi in Comfort Standard class.

With disruption on the north-south lines of the Berlin S-Bahn and construction work on sections of the U-Bahn, getting from U-Bahnhof Mehringdamm to Gesundbrunnen was unsettling but thankfully uneventful. After extracting my essential nighttime items - pyjamas and blåhaj - from my suitcase on the platform, I boarded the European Sleeper train, which departed punctually at 22:59.

Upon boarding, I quickly noticed that the air in the train was much warmer and drier than I had expected, and the 500 ml bottle of water provided for each passenger would have been entirely inadequate. Luckily, there was an extra bottle of water, and after a brief discussion with the one other passenger in the compartment, I drank that too. Only in the morning did I notice that there was a climate control panel for the compartment, which was set to 'medium'.

The mattresses were comfortable (as were the pillows) although the bunk was ever so slightly too short for me to lie down straight on. There was also loads of luggage space, both below the seats and on a narrow shelf at the head of the bunks, but I think it would have been much less spacious in the couchette carriages, which fit six passengers into each compartment - there, I would expect space for no more than a rucksack per passenger.

There was another Träwelling user on board, but we didn't get to meet each other! Judging by the tags on our respective check-ins, we were in different carriages.

I got to sleep at approximately midnight, which is pretty typical for me. However, I woke up at 03:00 after a dream in which I had a productive discussion with @marcprux about KeepAndroidOpen.org shortly before the train derailed and plunged off the side of a bridge (metaphor?) - considering the subject matter, this dream did not bother me as much as it perhaps should have. In fairness, I think the dream might have had more to do with some very intense lighting around Rheine than with anything about the ride quality of the train.

At this point the train had stopped at Bad Bentheim, where we stayed for close to an hour. I don't know what the wait was for, but we had a driver change during this time. I also took the opportunity to use the WC (one per carriage, seemingly) while the train was stationary, and I found it to be well-designed, clean and fully functional. I went back to bed at about 04:00 when we started moving again.

I slept pretty soundly until 07:30, when the announcements for the stop in Rotterdam woke me momentarily, and then I fell back to sleep again, finally being woken up for good at 09:20 by my fellow passenger, who alerted me to the fact that we were already at Brussels! We crawled along at a snails pace through the underground North-South connection and arrived in Bruxelles-Midi exactly on time at 09:27.

In total, out of the 10 hours and 28 minutes of travel time, I got about 8 hours of sleep - not bad at all!

The train didn't wait long at Brussels - by 09:40 a member of staff on the train chivvied me politely to leave, the train pulled away at 09:56, and another train had already arrived at the same platform by 10:00.

My suggestions to others taking the European Sleeper: bring long cables to charge whatever devices you have (the compartment I was in only had two electricity sockets, which were situated below the window), bring something to cover your eyes (the curtains did not block much light, and there is lots of artificial lighting on that route), and something to block out the creaking and clanking of the train - my fellow passenger used noise-cancelling headphones.

All in all, it was a fantastic experience, and one which I hope to repeat soon. Not only did it fulfil a key part of my itinerary, but it was also relatively good value: the bunk reservation being priced at €89 with an Interrail pass, it was approximately the same cost as a hotel room in Brussels, which I would have had to book if I'd taken day trains instead.

https://traewelling.de/status/7336542

#CrossBorderRail #traewelling #EuropeanSleeper #NightTrains #NightTrain #SleeperTrains #SleeperTrain

Last night was my first ever aboard a sleeper train! I took the European Sleeper (ES 452) from Berlin Gesundbrunnen to Bruxelles-Midi in Comfort Standard class.

With disruption on the north-south lines of the Berlin S-Bahn and construction work on sections of the U-Bahn, getting from U-Bahnhof Mehringdamm to Gesundbrunnen was unsettling but thankfully uneventful. After extracting my essential nighttime items - pyjamas and blåhaj - from my suitcase on the platform, I boarded the European Sleeper train, which departed punctually at 22:59.

Upon boarding, I quickly noticed that the air in the train was much warmer and drier than I had expected, and the 500 ml bottle of water provided for each passenger would have been entirely inadequate. Luckily, there was an extra bottle of water, and after a brief discussion with the one other passenger in the compartment, I drank that too. Only in the morning did I notice that there was a climate control panel for the compartment, which was set to 'medium'.

The mattresses were comfortable (as were the pillows) although the bunk was ever so slightly too short for me to lie down straight on. There was also loads of luggage space, both below the seats and on a narrow shelf at the head of the bunks, but I think it would have been much less spacious in the couchette carriages, which fit six passengers into each compartment - there, I would expect space for no more than a rucksack per passenger.

There was another Träwelling user on board, but we didn't get to meet each other! Judging by the tags on our respective check-ins, we were in different carriages.

I got to sleep at approximately midnight, which is pretty typical for me. However, I woke up at 03:00 after a dream in which I had a productive discussion with @marcprux about KeepAndroidOpen.org shortly before the train derailed and plunged off the side of a bridge (metaphor?) - considering the subject matter, this dream did not bother me as much as it perhaps should have. In fairness, I think the dream might have had more to do with some very intense lighting around Rheine than with anything about the ride quality of the train.

At this point the train had stopped at Bad Bentheim, where we stayed for close to an hour. I don't know what the wait was for, but we had a driver change during this time. I also took the opportunity to use the WC (one per carriage, seemingly) while the train was stationary, and I found it to be well-designed, clean and fully functional. I went back to bed at about 04:00 when we started moving again.

I slept pretty soundly until 07:30, when the announcements for the stop in Rotterdam woke me momentarily, and then I fell back to sleep again, finally being woken up for good at 09:20 by my fellow passenger, who alerted me to the fact that we were already at Brussels! We crawled along at a snails pace through the underground North-South connection and arrived in Bruxelles-Midi exactly on time at 09:27.

In total, out of the 10 hours and 28 minutes of travel time, I got about 8 hours of sleep - not bad at all!

The train didn't wait long at Brussels - by 09:40 a member of staff on the train chivvied me politely to leave, the train pulled away at 09:56, and another train had already arrived at the same platform by 10:00.

My suggestions to others taking the European Sleeper: bring long cables to charge whatever devices you have (the compartment I was in only had two electricity sockets, which were situated below the window), bring something to cover your eyes (the curtains did not block much light, and there is lots of artificial lighting on that route), and something to block out the creaking and clanking of the train - my fellow passenger used noise-cancelling headphones.

All in all, it was a fantastic experience, and one which I hope to repeat soon. Not only did it fulfil a key part of my itinerary, but it was also relatively good value: the bunk reservation being priced at €89 with an Interrail pass, it was approximately the same cost as a hotel room in Brussels, which I would have had to book if I'd taken day trains instead.

https://traewelling.de/status/7336542

#CrossBorderRail #traewelling #EuropeanSleeper #NightTrains #NightTrain #SleeperTrains #SleeperTrain

Train-bubble I need your help: I want my company to buy a ticket for a sleeper train from Munich -> Warsaw

The problem: on the DB site whenever I want to book the connection it shows me the reservation is not possible and I can't book without reservation. Any idea how to check if this is a possible journey or if it's fully booked?

Fo reference the complete journey would be: 15.06.2026 15:33 Tübingen (Germany)
16.06.2026 08:00 Warsaw Central

#trains #trainbubble #sleepertrain

Train-bubble I need your help: I want my company to buy a ticket for a sleeper train from Munich -> Warsaw

The problem: on the DB site whenever I want to book the connection it shows me the reservation is not possible and I can't book without reservation. Any idea how to check if this is a possible journey or if it's fully booked?

Fo reference the complete journey would be: 15.06.2026 15:33 Tübingen (Germany)
16.06.2026 08:00 Warsaw Central

#trains #trainbubble #sleepertrain

Discover the Vande Bharat Sleeper! India`s first overnight Vande Bharat offers luxury sleeper berths, smart glass, pet boxes & showers. Book your premium journey now! https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/vande-bharat-sleeper-india-overnight-train-features-if4e8ml4?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #VandeBharatSleeper #IndianRailways #SleeperTrain #irctc #VandeBharat

Vande Bharat Sleeper train launch: Howrah-Guwahati overnight journey begins today https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/vande-bharat-sleeper-train-debut-vsia92ul?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #VandeBharat #SleeperTrain #HowrahGuwahati #IndianRailways #PMModi

Vande Bharat Sleeper: Vande Bharat Sleeper to be launched on 17th of this month
https://vaartha.com/national/vande-bharat-sleeper-to-be-launched-on-17th-of-this-month/623379/
#VandeBharatSleeper #VandeBharat #SleeperTrain #IndianRailways #TrainLaunch #VandeBharatExpress #RailwayNews #NewTrain #HighSpeedRail #MakeInIndia #RailNatinBharat #TrainTravel #IndianTrains #RailwaysIndia #VandeBharatLaunch #PremiumTrain #SleeperClass #TravelIndia #RailUpdate #LatestTrains

Why Sleeper Trains Are Making a Comeback

Sleeper trains, including the famous “Blue Trains” that were once a key part of travel across Japan, are making a comeback. When JR West launched a new night train connecting Kansai and the San’in region in 2020, it quickly became a hit, with most…
#Japan #JP #JapanNews #Accommodation #hotels #JREast #JRWest #news #NightTrain #Sleepertrain #sleepers #tourism #train #trains #travel
https://www.alojapan.com/1417753/why-sleeper-trains-are-making-a-comeback/

https://www.alojapan.com/1417753/why-sleeper-trains-are-making-a-comeback/ Why Sleeper Trains Are Making a Comeback #Accommodation #hotels #Japan #JapanNews #JREast #JRWest #news #NightTrain #SleeperTrain #sleepers #tourism #train #trains #travel Sleeper trains, including the famous “Blue Trains” that were once a key part of travel across Japan, are making a comeback. When JR West launched a new night train connecting Kansai and the San’in region in 2020, it quickly became a hit, with most departures nearly full. JR

You might soon be able to travel from Switzerland to Sweden on this new sleeper train.

Another new night train may soon be joining Europe’s growing fleet, a direct connection between Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden.

The project is currently awaiting approval from the Swiss Parliament.

If it gets the green light, the service will run three times a week, starting in mid-April next year.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251031-you-might-soon-be-able-to-travel-from-switzerland-to-sweden-on-this-new-sleeper-train?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SleeperTrain #NightTrain #Rail #Switzerland #Denmark #Sweden

ÖBB scraps the sleeper train from Paris to Vienna. Hop aboard these alternative night trains instead.

Nightjet services connecting Paris, Berlin and Vienna will be discontinued from mid-December, Austrian national rail operator ÖBB has announced.

It follows the French government’s withdrawal of funding.

If you’re looking for a sleeper experience from the French capital, there are plenty of alternative routes.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20251002-obb-scraps-the-sleeper-train-from-paris-to-vienna-hop-aboard-these-alternative-night-trains-instead?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SleeperTrain #Rail #Nightjet #Paris #Berlin #Vienna

Starting my journey today with another #EuropeanSleeper ride from Berlin for a, hopefully useful, week in the Netherlands.
Although actually.. Starting in a Regionalbahn to change at Hauptbahnhof for my #sleepertrain ..
#ES #crossborderrail

#CrossBorderRail #NightJet

I've got myself confused and would be grateful for reassurance, my family are going from Salzburg to Paris on the nightjet, we booked 4 tickets for October (2 adults, 1 child and 1 infant with seat). We selected a 4 berth couchette and have been assigned seats 91-94, I had read that usually they skip the middle berth so I'm now a little worried we haven't booked out the whole compartment and instead might be sharing in a 6 berth.

I think I'm over worrying...

#sleepertrain

#CrossBorderRail #NightJet

I've got myself confused and would be grateful for reassurance, my family are going from Salzburg to Paris on the nightjet, we booked 4 tickets for October (2 adults, 1 child and 1 infant with seat). We selected a 4 berth couchette and have been assigned seats 91-94, I had read that usually they skip the middle berth so I'm now a little worried we haven't booked out the whole compartment and instead might be sharing in a 6 berth.

I think I'm over worrying...

#sleepertrain

Italy’s new ‘beer train’ sleeper service will take passengers from Rome to Munich for Oktoberfest.

Travellers can get into the Oktoberfest mood right from the start of the journey with Bavarian-themed entertainment on Italy’s new night train.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250827-italys-new-beer-train-sleeper-service-will-take-passengers-from-rome-to-munich-for-oktoberfest?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Germany #Oktoberfest #Italy #Rome #Munich #Trains #Travel #NightTrain #SleeperTrain #Rail

✅ Booked sleeper train Kalman Imre Stuttgart–Budapest
✅ Booked sleeper train Ister Budapest–Bucureşti
✅ Booked sleeper train Dacia Express Braşov–Wien

Looking forward to another great trip!
#trains #SleeperTrain #FlightFree

New at my Patreon... Sleeper trains are having a comeback in Europe - so I caught 4 of them on my rail trek from London to Istanbul. Here's what they were like:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/four-night-133632552

#train #trains #travel #SleeperTrain #Europe

New at my Patreon... Sleeper trains are having a comeback in Europe - so I caught 4 of them on my rail trek from London to Istanbul. Here's what they were like:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/four-night-133632552

#train #trains #travel #SleeperTrain #Europe

Kilty on the Caledonian Sleeper

https://makertube.net/w/fFgSXd5CxSqy7QFVuacGCF

Heat.
Baie des Chaleurs, #NouveauBrunswick #Canada
#Coast #Meer #SleeperTrain

Sleeper train with a toddler was excellent last night. She slept for 7 hours straight, and I probably slept for 6 of those. And that’s sharing a narrow single bunk.

#sleepertrain #trains #Scotland

Some of the train people here will probably like this Caledonian Sleeper plush locomotive… 😀
Also interesting to see the filled washbag (sometimes) given to Club Room and Double Room passengers, is valued at £40!

https://sleepersouvenirs.scot/products/caledonian-sleeper-plush-train-engine

#train #plush #CaledonianSleeper #SleeperTrain #GiftShop
@smveerman @maartje