End of the line for Europe's iconic night trains?

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[eightf48544]

It does seem a shame they are going.

I travelled extensively on night trains in and GB^▸ (Great Britain) and Europe the sixties admittedly mostly on privs and  passes.

Including Edinburgh Inverness sleeper
Manchester Euston sleeper
Manchester Central to Marylebone via GC^» (Great Central Railway - link to heritage line) siting
Waterloo Salisbury, Salisbury Bristol, Bristol Bath Green Park Bath Green Park to Evercreech Junction siting

Halifax Manchester with a black five

For work the Victoria newspaper trains, to the South Coast.

Abroad

Paris Milan Couchette
Munich Istanbul 2 nights wagon lie
Malmo  Stockholm both ways couchette also overnight Harwich Hook both ways long weekend in Stockholm. Plus 01 10s Osnabruck to Hamburg then train ferry. Puttgarten Rodby.
Vienna Ostend couchette
Also night trains siting from Brindisi to Rimini
Sarajevo to Vienna

Last night train a few years back. Through sleeper Prague Krakow thet was an experience woekn up at Polish border by passport check and extensive shunting. they used to be (may still be) through sleepers from both Vienna and Prague to both Warsaw and Krackow so they had to take two trains and apart and make two new trains.

As has been said an interesting way of travelling, pity we are now in so much of a hurry.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Does anyone have a link for the petition that's mentioned in the article?

The petition appears to be here: http://www.petitions24.com/save_the_night_train_from_denmark_to_europe 

[Worcester_Passenger]

The petition website has just emailed me with details of a demonstration at Copenhagen. A little belated perhaps? But they seem to have to right sense of drama - you're asked to turn up in your pyjamas.

Link at http://www.petitions24.com/a/91939.

[Bmblbzzz]

The only night trains I've travelled on were from Bratislava to Warsaw about ten years ago, which was quick enough, cheap but not particularly restful because, although the cabin was comfortable, the frequent border crossings and associated loco changes with bumpings and clangings and passport inspections ^ this was before those countries joined the EU^» (European Union - about) ^ made too many interruptions; and in the Soviet Union, so long ago that it still was that. Those cabins were comfy and roomy, probably because Russian trains are wider (and perhaps taller?). Also, each carriage had its dejurnaya who brought us glasses of tea.  But when I was working in Poland (early 2000s) I used to travel back to Britain either on a plane or in a long-distance bus, depending on how much money I had at the time! The train was more expensive than a full-service flight and took longer than the bus, because of having to change (Berlin, Cologne, Brussels, IIRC^▸ ('if I recall/remember/read correctly')). Nowadays, cheap flights must have taken most of the bus passengers, but they still survive, partly I think due to their much larger baggage allowances.