{"id":177571,"date":"2023-12-30T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candas365.es\/noticias\/?p=177571"},"modified":"2023-12-30T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T12:32:51","slug":"berlin-paris-and-brussels-once-again-linked-by-sleeper-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candas365.es\/noticias\/berlin-paris-and-brussels-once-again-linked-by-sleeper-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin, Paris and Brussels once again linked by sleeper trains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Berlin (dpa<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) – Fall asleep in Berlin<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, wake up in Paris and save on carbon emissions at the same time: For the first time in almost a decade, the German, French and Belgian capitals are once again linked by sleeper trains.<\/p>\n

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For the first time in almost ten years, night trains are now travelling between Berlin and Paris. But prices are steep, even if you can find a seat, couchette or bed. Photo: Georg Hochmuth\/APA\/dpa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Tuesday morning, passengers woke up in Paris and Brussels in the first night train from Berlin run by Austrian Federal Railways (\u00d6BB) and aimed at offering a comfortable and climate-conscious alternative to short-distance flights.<\/p>\n

One half of the train leaving Berlin travels to Brussels, the other to Paris. Passengers headed for Paris will arrive at the central Gare de l’Est station.<\/p>\n

A cooperation between several railway companies, \u00d6BB’s night train is a collaboration with Deutsche Bahn, the French state railway SNCF and the Belgian NMBS\/SNCB, with the so-called Nightjet trains come from the Austrian group.<\/p>\n

Staffed and marketed by all participating railway companies, the night train now runs three times a week between Berlin, Paris and Brussels. The connection is even set to run daily from October 2024.<\/p>\n

Busy, pricey and a bit hard to book<\/h2>\n

\u00abThe new night train connections are very well booked over the holidays,\u00bb the German railway said. Only after the holidays will there be \u00absufficient free capacity.\u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00abBasically, as soon as we launch a new night train connection together with our partner railroads, there is a real boom in bookings,\u00bb Deutsche Bahn said.<\/p>\n

After discontinuing its night train service in Germany in 2014, more and more other companies have been filling the gap left by Deutsche Bahn.<\/p>\n

The Dutch European Sleeper launched a connection between Berlin and Amsterdam this year. The Swedish railway company SJ has been offering a night train between Hamburg and Stockholm since the spring.<\/p>\n

Interest in night trains has been booming in Europe in the last couple of years, especially as travellers show growing concern about climate change and high emissions from air travel.<\/p>\n

Together with several European partner railroads, Deutsche Bahn is once again increasingly offering connections with the goal to connect 13 European cities with over a million inhabitants by night train.<\/p>\n

Despite a would-be rebirth of night trains across Europe, the booking process is still rather complicated, infrastructure specialist and railway advocate Carl Wassmuth told Berlin broadcaster RBB.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe booking platforms for night trains in Europe are a disaster, we are nowhere near where we need to be,\u00bb Wassmuth told RBB. \u00abWe need a standardised booking platform for all night trains so that I don’t have to train myself to find out where I can book this night train.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Wassmuth called for a cross-European booking platform in a joint initiative between the countries in Europe to replace the hotchpotch of different national booking platforms.<\/p>\n

\u20ac165 for a bed<\/h3>\n

One dampener for fans of the new night train between Berlin and Paris is probably the relatively high prices. The cheapest offer for a journey at the beginning of January currently costs just under \u20ac45 per person, albeit for a seat including reservation in second class.<\/p>\n

In the couchette carriages, prices range from just under \u20ac100 per couchette seat in a compartment of six to more than \u20ac600 for a private couchette compartment.<\/p>\n

A bed in a a sleeper carriage costs between \u20ac165 (for a journey in a compartment with three beds) and \u20ac475 for a one-person compartment with a bed. This is likely to be too expensive, and not just for many families.<\/p>\n

\u00abIt’s certainly not a bargain, it’s not for people who want to travel extremely cheaply,\u00bb says Detlef Neuss from the German railway advocacy association Pro Bahn. The offer is primarily aimed at business travellers, he believes.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe price is not the main focus, but rather comfort and relaxed travelling.\u00bb Nonetheless, the new connection is a step in the right direction, Neuss believes, even if it can’t yet compete with the prices of air travel.<\/p>\n

By Matthias Arnold, dpa<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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