Currently crossing Germany after a weekend in Vienna and Warsaw 🚄 This would have been impossible without this blog: https://www.seat61.com/ (thanks @jurie!) Which makes me wonder how Europe can do its energy transition. It has rails everywhere, but the trains are unreliable, tickets are ten times more expensive than flights, and the best way to know about a route is a British blog from the 2000s 😑 #NightTrain#CrossBorderRail#EnergyTransition
Just booked a trip to London (from Berlin). BA cost me 250€ return. Sleeper train would have cost 850€. That's just too much, even in return for doing my bit towards saving the planet :(
Taking the SJ #EuroNight#nighttrain from Stockholm to Berlin tonight. The train left on time at 17:34, but we are still in Södertälje Syd because of an electrical failure between here and Gnesta. There is no information on when the train can proceed. Have a #sleeper cabin, hoping to wake up in Germany. Always exciting to #interrail!
I bought a few shares because their success would help me #StayGrounded. (Also, how cool is it to own a #train [lease, fraction of]?)
It's a high risk investment. No profits expected for years with favourable track prices. No membership/voting rights under 26 k€ invested. Check bylaws etc. in "legal" and "community" tabs. https://platform.eyevestor.com/eyeventures/NL_EUS?tab=rules
Tempting: a #Stockholm-#Milan route involving a #TGV9211. #ICE71 punctuality stands at 52 % though... (Not sure why DB refuses to sell #EC323 available from Trenitalia.)
It was a huge mistake by Deutsche Bahn to discontinue the Berlin-Paris night train...so it's a wonderful turn of events that ÖBB has led the push to start the connection again.
Again night trains are descibed in an article in the press (Stern) as “Einsteigen, einschlafen, aufwachen, aussteigen”. (“Board, sleep, wake up, disembark”) That is not how night trains work except in lucky cases where the journey is precisely so long that you board at bedtime and arrive around 7–9 or so in the morning. For longer journeys you either are awake for several hours before a reasonable bedtime, or you arrive around noon or even later. And that is how it has always been. #nightTrain
are there any good websites to travel accross Europe, taking into account night trains ? I plan to travel from Bruxelles to København in June, but I can't find much.... (e.g. the one below suggests a travel mainly during the night, but with 5 transfers.. during the night !). I mean night train where we sleep... #nighttrain
I got my #37C3 ticket but it's so hard to #StayGrounded in this season. The SJ #NightTrain is full in one direction and only 240 € beds are available in the other...
#Tegenlicht van @vprotegenlicht gezien. Over de belabberde staat van dienst van het internationale personenvervoer op het #Spoor. Vroeger was het echt beter. In één ruk naar Rome of Moskou. Ik word daar toch wel beetje droevig van, ondanks de inspanningen van de Oostenrijkse #ÖBB.
🇸🇮🚂🚃🚃🏔🌫 What an amazing way to wake up! Good morning, this is EN 40237 from #Stuttgart🇩🇪 all the way to #Zagreb🇭🇷. While winding through the southern Alps🏔 on the way to #Ljubljana🇸🇮, breakfast was served in my HŽ🇭🇷 sleeper compartment: Coffee & Žemlja! #nighttrain#nachtzug
🇦🇹🤝🇮🇹 Today's wonderful #ÖBB🇦🇹 #Nightjet-service №233 to #LaSpezia🇮🇹 left #Vienna🇦🇹 right on time. We enjoy this special 16h #nighttrain-trip to the breathtaking coast of #Italy's Cinqueterre in a DOUBLE sleeper🌜 compartment and already chose our items for the breakfast🥐! Egg noodles with cheese🧀 was our dinner for today 😍!
Relatively recent hotel on wheels of the Spanish railway operator #trenhotel#renfe#train rotting away west of Miranda de Ebro, while the rest of Europe is desperately searching for #nighttrain rolling stock @backontrack
"Actually, the business case of the #Nighttrain doesn’t quite addup," explains #IDE alumnus Annabelle Out. That’s why Annabelle designed a carriage interior for both day and night trains as part of her graduation project for the #Engineering firm Royal HaskoningDHV.
The four of us had a 4-person compartment (=1st class): OK beds, handy sleeping bag, wifi and power sockets on board. Comfort therefore fine, were it not for the announcements, and the lack of coffee....
So a 7/10
🇨🇿🇸🇰🚂🚃🚃🛌 A wonderful #nighttrain trip is coming up. With EN 443 "Slovakia" from #Prague🇨🇿 to #Košice🇸🇰 we are crossing two beautiful countries by night in a comfy #ČD🇨🇿 deluxe sleeper compartment with shower and toilet ensuite 😍! Good Night🌜 everyone!