European Sleeper to run its Berlin service to Czech capital amid EU revival in long-distance trains
Rail passengers will be able to leave Brussels or Amsterdam in the evening and wake up the next morning in Dresden or Prague – and vice versa – from March as Europe’s night train network continues to expand., said on Tuesday the service would be extended to Dresden in eastern Germany and on to the Czech capital from 25 March.
The Belgian-Dutch cooperative said Prague had always been the intended destination of its first sleeper service from Brussels, but it had opted initially to terminate it in Berlin because of major engineering works south of Dresden. It would now be able to offer “an attractive timetable” with “well balanced arrival and departure times”, it said, allowing passengers to leave Brussels at 7.22pm and arrive in Prague at 10.56am after stops including Rotterdam, Antwerp, and Děčín in the Czech Republic.
European Sleeper is also planning a winter night train between Amsterdam and the French Alps, as well as an EU-backed Amsterdam-Barcelona service launching in 2025. More sleeping cars should increase comfort and the travel experience, it said.There is a growing revival of European long-distance and sleeper services as the EU promotes less polluting forms of travel, and travellers seek out alternatives to short-haul flights.
The French rail operator SNCF and Deutsche Bahn earlier this year announced a direct high-speed TGV service linking Paris to Berlin in about seven hours, with a scheduled launch at the end of next year.
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