EuroNight
EuroNight, abbreviated EN, denotes many main-line national and international night train services within the Western and Central European inter-city rail network.
Overview
The classification and name were brought into use in May 1993.[1] Unlike the equivalent day-running counterparts EuroCity and InterCity trains, the EuroNight trains tend to run during the nighttime and are equipped with various cars for accommodating sleep services. Nearly all EuroNight trains require reservations and additional fare-supplements in addition to the regular cost of a ticket from the destination to the arrival point. These supplements vary in price depending on whether the traveler wishes to sit in a regular seat, a couchette "lying bed" which offers a padded, felt bed with a blanket and small pillow, or a sleeping bed which allows a mattress bed with full bedding (sheets, comforters, pillows).
Nearly all EuroNight services are international services (though a few large nations, including France and Germany, operate EN services nationally) and are jointly operated by various national rail companies, with many rail companies sharing cars on the route. EN trains developed and became the standard night-train service for all Western and most Central European nations, receiving special designation from the older D-Nacht services (many of which still operate in Central and Eastern Europe). EN trains have special criteria that rail companies must match in order to receive the EN designation.
Train numbers follow the EN designation. Many routes also have accompanying names that originally designated the route in the 19th and 20th centuries (EN 264 still operated on the classic Orient Express route from Vienna to Strasbourg, until its cancellation and withdrawal in 2009 for example).
Operating carriers
The following carriers currently have designated cars and train conductors who work the EN lines. Many railway companies share cars on the same train line between routes; for example, EN 235 between Vienna and Rome share cars of both the ÖBB and Trenitalia.
- Austria's ÖBB
- Croatia's HŽ
- Czech Republic's ČD
- France's SNCF (as part of their Intercités de nuit brand)
- Germany's DB (as part of their City Night Line brand; to be shut down by December 2016)[2]
- Hungary's MÁV
- Italy's Trenitalia
- Luxembourg's CFL
- Netherlands, The NS Hispeed[3]
- Poland's PKP Intercity
- Romania's CFR
- Slovakia's ZSSK
- Spain's Renfe Operadora
- Sweden's Veolia Transport
- Switzerland's SBB
Deutsche Bahn operates the additional City Night Line hotel-quality night services between Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and The Netherlands. Two of those, the Kopernikus and the Canopus, are designated EuroNight trains as EN 458/459. However, Deutsche Bahn announced to terminate all of its own night train services by December 2016.[2]
List of Euronight Trains
Number | Name | Route | Operator | Travel Time |
---|---|---|---|---|
EN 17 EN 18 |
Moscow Smolenskaya – Orsha Centralnaya - Minsk-Passazhirsky - Brest-Tsentralny - Terespol - Warszawa Wschodnia - Warszawa Centralna - Katowice - Bohumín - Břeclav - Wien Hauptbahnhof - Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof - Brennero - Verona Porta Nuova - Milano Rogoredo - Genova Piazza Principe - Ventimiglia - Monaco - Monte-Carlo - Nice-Ville | RŽD, BČ, PKP, ČD, ÖBB | 46 h 45 | |
EN 220 EN 221 |
Venezia Santa Lucia – Venezia Mestre – Padova – Vicenza - Verona Porta Nuova – Brescia – Milano Centrale – Dijon Ville – Paris Lyon | Thello | 13 h 30 | |
EN 234 EN 235 |
Allegro Tosca | Wien Hbf – Wien Meidling – Bruck an der Mur – Villach Hbf – Venezia Mestre – Firenze Santa Maria Novella – Roma Termini (with through carriages from Venezia Mestre to Milano Centrale) | ÖBB, Trenitalia | 14 h |
EN 236 EN 237 |
Allegro Don Giovanni | Wien Westbf – Wien Hütteldf - St. Pölten Hbf. - Amstetten - St. Valentin - Linz Hbf – Wels Hbf – Attnang-Puchheim – Vöcklabruck – Salzburg Hbf – Villach Hbf – Tarvisio Centrale – Udine Centrale – Latisana-Lignano-Bibione – Venezia Mestre - Venezia Santa Lucia | ÖBB | 12 h |
EN 246 EN 247 |
EN Vorarlberg EN LA Renaissance u. Reformation 2010 |
Wien Westbf – Linz – Wels – Attnang-Puchheim – Vöcklabruck – Salzburg – Innsbruck – Landeck – Bludenz – Feldkirch – Bregenz | ÖBB | 10 h |
EN 300 EN 301 |
Scandinavia-Night-Express Berlin-Night-Express |
Berlin Hbf – Malmö Central | Veolia Transport, GVG | 9:30 h 8:30 h |
EN 402 EN 403 |
Silesia | Kraków – Oświęcim – Czechowice-Dziedzice – Bohumín | PKP Intercity, ČD | 3 h |
EN 404 EN 405 |
Vltava | Praha hlavní nádraží – Ostrava – Katowice – Warszawa - Brest - Minsk - Smolensk - Moscow Smolenskaya railway station | RZD | 25 h |
EN 406 EN 407 |
Chopin | Wien Hauptbahnhof – Břeclav – Přerov – Ostrava – Bohumín – Katowice – Warszawa | PKP Intercity, ČD, ÖBB | 8 h |
EN 420 EN 421 |
Wien Westbf – Linz Hbf – Passau Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Köln Hbf – Düsseldorf | ÖBB | 11 h | |
EN 436 EN 437 |
Jan Kiepura | Amsterdam Centraal – Duisburg Hbf – Köln Hbf – Wuppertal Hbf – Bielefeld Hbf – Berlin – Frankfurt (Oder) (Gr) – Poznań Glowny – Warszawa Centralna – Warszawa Wschodnia (with through carriages to Minsk and Moskva Byelorusskaya, also Basel SBB – Warsaw – Moscow and München Hbf – Warsaw – Moscow) | PKP Intercity, DB AutoZug, BC, RZD | 17 h |
EN 442 EN 443 |
Bohemia | Praha hlavní nádraží – Pardubice - Olomouc - Ostrava - Bohumín - Český Těšín - Žilina - Poprad - Košice - Humenné | ČD, ZSSK | 12 h 9 h |
EN 444 EN 445 |
Slovakia | Praha hlavní nádraží – Pardubice - Olomouc - Ostrava - Bohumín - Český Těšín - Žilina - Poprad - Košice | ČD, ZSSK | 10 h 9 h |
EN 446 EN 447 |
D 21JA | Warszawa Wschodnia – Poznań Gl. – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin Hbf (tief) – Dortmund Hbf – Cologne Hbf | PKP Intercity, DB | |
EN 452 EN 453 |
Ost-West-Express | Moskva Belorusskaja – Minsk(BY) – Warszawa Wschodnia – Poznań Gl. – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin Hbf (tief) – Hannover Hbf – Fulda – (Aschaffenburg) – Frankfurt (Main) Süd – Karlsruhe – Strasbourg – Épernay – Paris-Est | Deutsche Bahn, RZD | |
EN 458 EN 459 |
Kopernikus | Praha hlavní nádraží - Ústí nad Labem - Dresden Hbf - Leipzig | ČD, DB | 4:15 |
EN 459 | Canopus | Zürich Hbf - Basel SBB - Frankfurt South station - Erfurt Hbf - Leipzig Hbf - Dresden Hbf - Ústí nad Labem hl.n. - Praha hlavní nádraží | ČD, DB | 14:47 h |
EN 462 EN 463 |
Kálmán Imre | Budapest Keleti pu – Kelenföld – Tatabánya – Győr – Hegyeshalom (Gr) – Wien Hbf – Wien Meidling – St. Pölten – Linz – Salzburg Hbf – München Ost – München Hbf (with through carriages to Bucuresti Nord) | MÁV, ÖBB[4] | 9 (24) h |
EN 464 EN 465 |
Zürichsee | Graz – Selzthal – Innsbruck – Feldkirch – Zürich (with through carriages to/from Villach, Zagreb and Belgrade) | ÖBB, HŽ, ŽS | 11 h 10 h |
EN 466 EN 467 |
Wiener Walzer | Budapest Keleti pu;– Kelenföld – Tatabánya – Győr – Mosonmagyaróvár – Hegyeshalom (Gr) – Wien Hbf – Wien Meidling – St. Pölten – Linz – Salzburg – Innsbruck – Bludenz – Feldkirch – Buchs – Sargans – Zürich HB | MÁV, ÖBB | 12 h |
EN 472 EN 473 |
Ister | Budapest Keleti pu – Szolnok – Bekescsaba – Lököshaza – Curtici – Arad – Teius – Brasov – Ploiesti Vest – Bucuresti Nord Gr. A | 14 (30) h | |
EN 476 EN 477 |
Metropol | Berlin Hauptbahnhof – Berlin Südkreuz – Dresden – Schöna (Gr) – Praha – Brno – Břeclav – Kúty (Gr) – Bratislava – Szob (Gr) – Budapest (with through carriages to Wien Westbahnhof from Břeclav) | MÁV | 14 h |
EN 491 EN 492 |
Hans Albers | Wien Westbf – St. Pölten – Amstetten – St. Valentin – Linz – Wels – Passau – Nürnberg – Hannover – Hamburg-Harburg – Hamburg – Hamburg-Altona | ÖBB | 12 h |
EN 498 EN 499 |
Lisinski | München – Salzburg – Schwarzach-St. Veit – Spittal-Millstättersee – Villach – Jesenice(SL) – Lesce Bled – Kranj – Ljubljana – Zidani Most – Sevnica – Dobova – Savski Marof – Zagreb Glavni Kolod. (with through carriages to Belgrad) | HŽ, SŽ | 9 h |
EN 1236/1238 EN 1237/1239 |
Allegro Rossini | Roma Tiburtina – Firenze Campo di Marte – Bologna Centrale – Ferrara – Rovigo – Padova – Venezia Mestre – Udine – Tarvisio Boscoverde – Villach – Klagenfurt – Leoben – Bruck and der Mur – Wiener Neustadt – Wien-Meidling – Wien Matzleinsdorf | ÖBB | 15 h |
See also
References
- ↑ "International Services from May 23" (changes taking effect). Thomas Cook European Timetable (May 1–22, 1993 edition), p. 3. Peterborough, UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.
- 1 2 DB to withdraw all remaining sleeper trains 21 December 2015
- ↑ "EuroNight to Copenhagen, Prague, Moscow". Dutch Railways NS. 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
- ↑ http://www.eurail.com/trains-europe/night-trains/euronight-kalman-imre#facilities