The new night train between Amsterdam and Prague will not start in April, but at the beginning of summer. This is reported by the Dutch-Belgian company European Sleeper, which operates the new connection.
The reason for the delay is that European Sleeper has not yet succeeded in obtaining sufficient comfortable sleeping cars that meet its own quality requirements. “As we are working on the availability of comfortable sleeping cars, we will start later than originally planned,” the carrier said.
The exact start date will follow early next year. “By that time, we will also announce the train composition, the different comfort levels and the ticket prices.” Earlier, European Sleeper spoke of an amount between 50 and 70 euros for a single journey. Passengers also get a bed for that. Travelers can also bring a bicycle for an additional fee.
Daily
The new sleeper train will run three times a week: on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings. The arrival in Prague is the next day around half past ten in the morning. The train departs from Prague on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Incidentally, the entire route leads from the starting point of Brussels via Antwerp, Rotterdam, The Hague HS and Amsterdam CS to Hanover, Dresden, Berlin and then to the Czech capital Prague.
European Sleeper, which claims that the train journey requires 75 tons less CO2 than by plane, says it wants to run the connection daily as soon as possible. A new night train must then be introduced every year. In 2023 to the Polish capital Warsaw and in 2024 to an unknown destination.
revival
With the new connection to Prague, the night train is undergoing a real revival. In 2016, the landscape looked completely different and the sleeper train seemed to have been shunted. Deutsche Bahn then pulled the plug on the City Night Line between Amsterdam and Vienna. The last night train ran on December 9, 2016. This meant that for the first time in more than a century, the Netherlands had no sleeping trains.
Strict climate targets and more attention to rail, however, have completely changed the landscape. Last year, three night trains started operating. For example, the Austrian ÖBB and NS introduced the Nightjet between Amsterdam, Munich and Vienna.
Last week, a new Nightjet also started to the Swiss Basel and Zurich. Last October, GreenCityTrip launched night trains to Prague, among other places. This is not a ‘free’ sleeper train; passengers buy a complete package tour. In addition to Prague, this is now also possible to Venice, Innsbruck, Vienna and Verona.
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