Night train journeys in Europe 2025
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Train journeys From Tallinn to Stockholm: as a foot passenger on the Tallink ferry
Ferry connections like these can be easily incorporated into a journey with or without Interrail! Mostly because it saves you a long diversions or, for example, because you can see beautiful landscapes from the water. Both are the case here . The crossing is particularly suitable ...
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Train journeys The Snabbtag express train in Sweden: from Malmö to Stockholm in 4:30 hours
The express train in Sweden is called "Snabbtag" - which translates as "express train". It runs on the main lines mainly from Stockholm to Malmö and Copenhagen as well as to Gothenburg and is operated by the Swedish railway company with another sonorous name "SJ- Statens Järnvägar", which translates as: (three times you may ...
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Belgrade The update on the "Hellas Express": a journey on the night train from Skopje to Belgrade
My Interrail tour "Balkans" also took me to Thessaloniki, Skopje and Belgrade in summer 2019. Until a few years ago, there was a continuous night train between these 3 cities. Gab. Because on my trip, it only travelled from North Macedonia via Skopje to Belgrade and unfortunately it doesn't currently run at all. What it ...
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Belgrade From Belgrade to Ljubljana and Villach on the night train: what to do on a journey without a couchette carriage!
The great extinction of the "night train" species has long since arrived in the Balkans. There was still one running on the Belgrade-Zagreb-Ljubljana-Villach route in 2019. But firstly, it is more of a night intercity (i.e. a normal IC that runs at night) and secondly, it is only a "quasi-direct connection" to Villach. What that means, why ...
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German railways From Villach to Munich: Alpine panorama in the EC/ICE Mimara
The EC named "Mimara" connects Villach in the Alps with Munich, Stuttgart and Cologne as well as other cities in the Ruhr region all year round. This means you can travel comfortably to your holiday or back without changing trains. The EC114 departs Klagenfurt at 08:42 and arrives in Villach at 09:16. ...
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German railways From Hanover to Hamburg on the Deutsche Bahn ICE
The two large cities with an "H" in the north of Germany are two hubs for long-distance transport. Hanover offers numerous transfer options, while Hamburg Hbf has the most passengers per day in Germany and the second most in Europe. In this blog I will explain how to get from Hanover to Hamburg by ICE. ...
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Night train Overnight to the Arctic Circle: from Stockholm to Luleå in a couchette coach.
In general, there are two night trains from Stockholm to northern Sweden: The NT94 to Narvik (Norway, on the North Sea) via Kiruna and the NT94 to Lulea on the Baltic Sea. The same train number indicates that the two trains belong together. Peter has written a blog about the night train to Narvik. About ...
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Narvik By train to Kiruna and Narvik. How does that work?
For me, there were only ever two places to go before my Interrail tour in the north: Narvik in Norway, simply because it is Narvik, the northernmost (known) city, so it has a certain prestige. And Kiruna, where I really wanted to visit the large ore mine. So how do you get there? What can you do ...
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Finland From Narvik and Kiruna to northern Finland by bus and train
Does this route work in one day? As an interrailer in Scandinavia, I've always had three destinations: Stockholm in Sweden, Narvik in Norway and Helsinki in Finland. So a logical connection was obvious: Narvik-Helsinki via Kemi in northern Finland, then onto the night train there. I searched for a long time and tried to find timetables ...
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Finland Is the night train in Finland the best in Europe?
My overnight journey from Kemi (northern Finland) to Helsinki The night trains of VR (Finnish Railways) are often highly praised. For geographical reasons, the best routes run from north to south. I was also lucky enough to test one of these trains on the journey from Kemi to Helsinki. Whether it was ...
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Germany The double-decker InterCity2 of Deutsche Bahn
A train journey from Leipzig to Hanover Deutsche Bahn's double-decker IC. In addition to the ICE, there is another train category that belongs to the so-called "long-distance transport" - the Intercity (IC). I would like to introduce you to one of its connections with the modern "IC2" in this blog. The InterCity (IC) to the right of the ICE ...
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Budapest From Budapest to Lake Balaton
How do you get from Budapest to Lake Balaton by train? Here you can find out how to get to almost all places on Lake Balaton from Budapest and what you need to bear in mind! I wanted to know whether it's worth travelling around Lake Balaton. How to go round Lake Balaton, whether it's worth it ...
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