Overview
- European Sleeper's inaugural train, which left Paris on Thursday evening, reached Berlin Hauptbahnhof shortly after 9 a.m. Friday.
- The service runs three nights a week on a set pattern, with Berlin–Paris departures on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and Paris–Berlin on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- The route stops in Mons, Brussels and Liège, and a new call at Hamburg-Harburg begins July 13.
- The company says it sold about 25,000 tickets before launch, pointing to strong interest in an overnight rail option between the capitals.
- The operator leases refurbished sleeping cars and a new locomotive and took over after ÖBB quit the route when France withdrew funding, with night trains still hard to profit from because the cars sit idle during the day.