Europe: Night train start-up European Sleeper has begun passenger operations, providing an overnight rail connection between Brussels and Berlin for the first time since 2008.
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Other similar routes have sprung up as the travel industry responds to rising fuel costs and climate damage. It hasn't been an easy time to be a rail enthusiast, but the resurgence of the sleeper train on the continent is offering British travellers a tantalising prospect for 2023. A new pan-European service starting in May is opening up the possibility of jumping on a Eurostar at St Pancras on a Friday afternoon and waking up in Berlin the following morning, breakfast included.
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On June 21, 1931, theSchienenzeppelin (pictured after the trip) set a new speed record for the railway when it travelled at 143 miles per hour on the Berlin to Hamburg line in Germany.
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