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I have also taken a night train from Vienna to Paris (and then a regular TGV to La Rochelle). Night trains are wonderful, they save you a night at the hotel, a
by seszett 11y ago
I have also taken a night train from Vienna to Paris (and then a regular TGV to La Rochelle).
Night trains are wonderful, they save you a night at the hotel, and they basically make the journey take no effective time from your holidays... but SNCF wants to get rid of them entirely, or so I heard.
- gpvos 11y agoThat must have been the official Orient Express, which was reduced from its original Paris-Istanbul route to Paris-Bucharest in 1977, then Paris-Vienna in 2001, Strasbourg-Vienna in 2007, and cancelled in 2009. I thought it was DB who wanted to do away with them. But maybe SNCF too. Due to European railway regulation and thoughtless implementation of the same by the individual countries, international (night) trains have become quite expensive to run. (This in addition to the obvious factors of fast daytime TGVs and irresponsibly cheap airplane flights.)
- aselzer 11y agoThey recently built a really large tunnel near Vienna, which is supposed to be a part of the planned high-speed connection from Bratislava/Budapest to Paris. It will be "completed" in 2020, so we will probably see Trains going in this direction soon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrale_for_Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrale_for_Europe
- justincormack 11y agoIt was a lovely journey, although the scenery meant that it was worth doing in the daytime...