Overnight in Verona: You can reach these new destinations in Europe by train in summer 2021

In summer 2021 there will be new routes in Europe that you can easily reach by night train.

We'll show you how the journey goes.

If you deduct the time to get there and back from vacation, there is often not that much time left to relax and discover.

It is practical if the journey can take place almost overnight - without having to sit behind the wheel yourself.

Especially in times of Corona, traveling without a plane * is becoming more and more popular.

So it is just right that there will be new routes for night trains * in Europe from summer 2021.

Just sleep - and wake up again at your dream destination.

Verona, Basel, Vienna: night trains in Europe for summer 2021

Night trains have gone out of fashion in recent years: Deutsche Bahn * even discontinued its own service in 2016.

But traveling in a sleeping car could now experience a renaissance.

The private train operator "Train4you" is planning six new connections in Europe for the summer of 2021.

From the beginning of July to mid-August, the

vacation express night trains run

on Fridays

from Basel to Rügen

and back again on Saturday, as

reisereporter.de

reports.

There are stops on the way in Freiburg, Mannheim, Frankfurt am Main, Hanover, Hamburg, Schwerin and Stralsund.

All trains have sleeping and couchette cars.

From mid-June to the end of September there will also be a

route to Verona

- there are entry options in Hamburg, Hanover, Fulda and Munich, among others.

In addition, in autumn there will be

a route from Düsseldorf via Cologne and Passau to Vienna

and back again.

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With the night train through Europe: These routes are planned for the next few years

In general, the range of night train routes in Europe is to be expanded again in the coming years.

Deutsche Bahn has teamed up with the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and the French state-owned company SNCF and signed a corresponding letter of intent.

A total of

13 European metropolises

are to be connected with each other via four new Nightjet lines.

A night train from

Zurich via Cologne to Amsterdam

and one from

Vienna via Munich to Paris are

to be made available

as early as December 2021

.

A year later, a connection from

Zurich to Rome is

planned.

December 2023 then provides for a line from

Vienna via Berlin to Paris

as planned.

In 2024,

Barcelona

should also

be accessible

from Germany

by night train.

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