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I don’t always stop and look at trains…

December 9, 2023 By in Hard Facts, High Art, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

Oh wait, yes I do.

The first night train between Berlin and Paris will depart on Monday evening after a nine-year hiatus, plugging a significant gap in Europe’s increasingly comprehensive overnight rail timetable and giving a boost to travellers looking for a realistic alternative to flying…

Demand for tickets is high, with many on the most popular routes selling out minutes after they had gone online.

Gardner said the buzz and the demand was so considerable, that “it’s now as hard to get a place in the compartment of a deluxe sleeping car on the night train from Paris to Berlin as it is to reserve a table at Paris’s best restaurants”

The End Of An Aura

December 15, 2014 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , 5 Comments

It’s amazing these sleeper trains have lasted as long as they have, if you stop and think about it.

Night Train

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.