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I spent a couple weeks travelling by train across Europe a few years ago on an Interrail pass. I found sleeper cabins were generally pretty comfortable, though

• dspillett 2y ago
  I travel by train regularly in the UK and it isn't unusual to take up to 8 hours to get anywhere :) The closest I've been to a sleeper in recent decades has been five hours on a cold station because cancellations & delays have meant missing the last onward connection of the day so waiting for the first morning service (there are supposed to be provisions for that by way of providing accommodation or replacement taxi service, which do sometimes work, but at that time of night there isn't always someone available & reachable to enact such policies).
  • Moru 2y ago
    8 hours won't even get me out of Sweden from where I live.
    • FartinMowler 2y ago
      30 hours and I still haven't left the province of Ontario (Canada).
      • Moru 2y ago
        Canada not in Europe :-)
  • bpye 2y ago
    I’ve had my fair share of poor UK rail experiences, especially during holiday periods. Standing on the train from London Paddington most of the way towards Exeter is never fun. In the case you couldn’t reach someone, doesn’t every platform have a phone as well?
    • dspillett 2y ago
      Certainly not every station, at least not then. And the trick would be reaching someone who can authorise something useful.
  • UranusDuzen 2y ago
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• gpvos 2y ago
  In the sleeping cabins I can sleep fine, but they're usually really expensive. In the couchettes I can sleep about 50-60% of the time. In the seats, not at all. So I go for couchettes. One time in Sweden I found that the sleepers were only 10 euro more than the couchettes, so then I took one.
• throwup238 2y ago
  That sounds like my experience on Russian trains (traveling between Moscow and Vilnius) except the men were drunk. As a ten year old kid traveling with his mom, it was threatening!