Jordy
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On a related but slightly off topic note, I see the Malmo - Berlin (via Sassnitz) sleeper is running again this summer: http://www.snalltaget.se/ContentPage/Index?page=2814
Still internal overnight services (many with mod-cons like showers etc.) in quite a few European countries that I doubt will be going any time soon - Norway, Sweden, Finland for example.
Yes, the future holds better in the UK as new stock is on order for the Caledonian routes. We'll see if the Penzance route lasts much longer.
Phil
For our NSB Sove guests, in association with hotels located near the terminus, we offer breakfast and a shower at the hotels.
You can choose between breakfast + shower or just breakfast. The hotels offer a special rate for breakfast and, if you are taking a shower, provide soap and a towel. You dont need to book and you pay the hotel direct. Present your NSB Sove ticket and enjoy a grand start to the day. You will find more information i the sleeping compartment.
Hotels that offers breakfast and shower:
Oslo : Thon Hotel Opera
Bergen : Hotel Grand Terminus
Stavanger : Clarion Hotel Stavanger
Trondheim : Best Western Chesterfield Hotel
Bodø : Rica Hotel Bodø
Not sure if this has been reported before, but the following services will run from December operated by ÖBB.
Vienna and Innsbruck to Hamburg and Düsseldorf (existing Wien services with new portions effectively replacing the Munich CNL, exchanging portions at Nürnberg or Würzburg).
Munich to Venice, Budapest, Zagreb as now; Munich to Rome via Salzburg instead of Brenner (a couple of hours slower).
Zurich to Hamburg via Berlin
In addition there will be a CD sleeper and seats car Zürich-Prague via Linz attached to existing trains.
There is no replacement for Zurich-Amsterdam AFAIK
Glad that ÖBB and CD have stepped in to keep these useful night connections, although it seems a bit crazy that some of these services spend so little time in Austria/Czech Republic. What's in for ÖBB to operate Zurich to Hamburg via Berlin?!
A pretty run down and battered selection of stock , dirty externally and with not a lot of passengers boarding. Clearly being run down for the imminent end. A shame.
If you want a service to stop, than you do not invest in new rolling stock.
Quite - even a trip through the wash plant would assist. Old trains or not - you can at least keep them clean. !
Will there, after December, be any trains using the EN catergory be still in operation?
Someone should post how nighttrains have gone the drain. In the UK you still have a London - Penzance and London - Scotland nighttrain. Maybe there are more.
Someone should post how nighttrains have gone the drain. In the UK you still have a London - Penzance and London - Scotland nighttrain. Maybe there are more.
Can you imagine we had Euston to Manchester and Liverpool services....? , or Glasgow to Aberdeen and Inverness..
considering the former Schweiz Express Amsterdam-Basel had up to 16 coaches and was very busy only 15 years ago, the decline is shocking.
I assume night trains dont fit into NS's concept of 15 min intervals on major routes.
There is no tax on the fuel for planes.
In the UK there is very little tax on the fuel for trains - isn't that the same in the rest of Europe, OOI?
interesting that a line that, in my experience, suffers constantly from overcrowding is cut back even further. 3 to 4 departures a day is really poor.