Two popular night train routes from Paris to Berlin and Paris to Vienna will be scrapped in December, the Austrian rail provider ÖBB confirmed on Monday.
  • Flubo@feddit.orgEnglish
    21·
    16 days ago

    Noooo dont cut night trains. I love travelling while sleeping and arriving in the morning.

    • kossa@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      16 days ago

      Problem was IMHO that it wasn’t a midnight train at all. I just wanted to book it recently. Left Paris at 7pm, arrived in Frankfurt at 3am. Like, I could not have dinner in Paris that evening and am stranded in the middle of the night.

      They had (a long time ago) a perfect night train service Frankfurt-Paris, which was always full when I took it. I just think that adjusting times for Frankfurt instead of Vienna and Berlin would have made more sense, as Frankfurt is comparably well connected and central. So you could arrive in Frankfurt at a normal time and be in any other major city early afternoon.

  • altasshet@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    16 days ago

    Huh. I’m sitting on the one from Zürich to Berlin right now. I’ve been using these for years now, whenever I travel in Europe. Generally prefer then over flying for a lot of reasons.

    Shutting down lines definitely feels like a step in the wrong direction.