It’s amazing these sleeper trains have lasted as long as they have, if you stop and think about it.
Saturday marked the end of the line for this Paris-Berlin sleeper, at any rate. Slow food might be able to make a stand here and there but it looks like slow travel is definitely out.
Deutsche Bahn, the German rail network which operates the sleeper said the service was incurring debts over €20 million a year and losing out to cheap bus connections and easyJet which offers a regular service between the two capitals. Along with the Paris-Berlin sleeper, overnight train services linking Berlin with Copenhagen and Amsterdam are also being axed.
Observing Hermann 
What a shame…. I love trains… although I have to admit I mostly fly anywhere out of the state.
I’ve done both those wonderful train routes and remember them fondly. A shame they’re soon to be extinct, but in our ever speedier world it makes a sad kind of sense.
is nothing sacred?? The Berlin-Paris sleeper car gone? I suppose the Wall will be the next to go…
Next thing you know they’ll be getting rid of MITROPA!!!
That’s crazy! I took the Berlin- Copenhagen and Copenhagen-Amsterdam night trains just a few months ago! They weren’t a fun time, and I would never want to put myself through that again, but it’s weird to think no one else can experience it now..