Ciarán CuffeNice! All European night trains running in 2026 on a single map. Thanks @backontrack Have you ever taken one?
https://back-on-track.eu/all-night-trains-running-in-2026-on-one-interactive-map/
Patrick Hadfield@Ciarancuffe @backontrack I used to take the sleeper from Edinburgh to Euston for work, though not in the last 20 years. "Sleeper" was unfortunately ill named!
I have sometimes thought about doing the same trip now, just to see if the new rolling stock makes a difference.
Jocelyn@patrickhadfield @Ciarancuffe @backontrack
I took #London-#Inverness #CaledonianSleeper 3 years ago.
Compared to ÖBB #nightjet in #Germany, I had much better sleep (and I'm not an easy sleeper...) : the track is noisier (tack-a-tack) but this actually is sufficiently monotonous to help rather than prevent sleep, and we had much fewer stop-and-goes (in Germany, train stops, reverses, re-reverses in fully lighted railway complexes, which woke me up a couple of times)
Benoît Jones@cyclotopie @patrickhadfield @Ciarancuffe @backontrack
I looked at the Caledonian Sleeper recently and they wanted £240 for a single ticket, which seems a lot.
I looked at the Caledonian Sleeper recently and they wanted £240 for a single ticket, which seems a lot.
@huxley @cyclotopie @patrickhadfield @backontrack Oof. Thankfully Brussels-Berlin was only €110 when I took the European Sleeper back in April.
@Ciarancuffe @huxley @patrickhadfield @backontrack
I don't remember how much I paid back then, there were 4 of us in two private cabins, and it felt quite less pricy than a cheap-range hotel night in SE England + single train ticket.
But I guess they vary their prices just as heavily as other businesses---if I remember I adjusted our dates to minimise cost.