The return of the night train
Sleeper trains are crossing Europe again. We took four of them in a week.
Cover image Photo by viktor rejent / Unsplash
You board in the evening, you wake up in another country. The night train was nearly extinct ten years ago. Today, new lines open every year.
We took four in a week, from the Baltic to the Alps. The cabins were small, the breakfasts modest, the views at dawn extraordinary. Above all, the journey felt like part of the trip, not a gap in it.
Tickets still cost more than they should, and timetables are fragile. But the demand is there, and so are the passengers.
