Date: 30/01/2017

Is there a rail traveller alive who doesnt love the romance of a night train? The very idea of gliding out of one great European city in the warm glow of an evening to wake up in the cool morning light of another is, even in the prosaic surroundings of modern standard sleeper berths, simply tantalising.
For those who share this fondness for night-time train travel, there is good news and bad news.

External links

How to ride the last remaining sleeper trains

Telegraph

Is there a rail traveller alive who doesn’t love the romance of a night train?

Related images

Departing from Aachen on a service heading to Ostend in July 1990. On the right is a sleeper train which has arrived from the east with carriages from several countries. The one nearest the camera carries a plaque with the letters CCCP (USSR).
Location: Aachen
Company: Deutsche Bahn
/07/1990 John McIntyre

The sun is beginning its descent towards night as the daily sleeper train approaches the level crossing at Svensta on its way from Duved. It has coaches for both Stockholm and Gothenburg and is hauled by SJ class Rc 6 built by ASEA in the mid 1980s. SJ is planning to reduce the service to High Season workings only from April 2016.
Location: Svensta
Company: Mittbanan
21/07/2014 Charlie Niven

The sleeper from Venice at Vienna Westbanhof on 3 October 2013.
Location: Vienna Westbanhof
Company: OBB
03/10/2013 John Yellowlees