Sleeper trains are touted to be eco-friendly and nostalgic, however, if you’re travelling on a budget, manage your expectations, reports Ellen Himelfarb
You’ve doubtless heard about the Great Rail Revival. Spurred by environmental doom and gloom, some of us have grown more mindful of flying short distances. We’re prioritizing the process of travel over instant gratification. We’re grumbling over the slow development of high-speed rail.
Fuelling demand on the continent, last month the European Commission approved France’s decision to ban domestic flights linking cities less than 2.5 hours apart by train. Surely similar bans will be coming soon for more distant cities near the borders and beyond. What I didn’t know when I booked was that Nightjet, an offshoot of the state-run OBB rail network, uses second-hand trains from Germany on its overnight routes. I discovered this an hour after my intended boarding time, slightly stressed and sweatier than I hoped to be heading into a redeye. The train was late into Paris, and the typically blasé station staff hadn’t felt compelled to post it on the departures board.
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