Passengers can still travel between Berlin and Brussels on an overnight train using the European Sleeper.
ADVERTISEMENTA sleeper train service connecting Berlin and Brussels will end operations at the tip of March.
The Nightjet that links the German and Belgium capitals currently runs thrice per week.
The service is operated by ÖBB Austria’s national railway company and is a component of a wider network of night trains that connect a lot of Germany’s big cities to other European destinations.
Sleeper train axed over construction work in Germany
The Nightjet sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels, which was launched in December 2023, will stop operations on 28 March.
The choice to axe the service indefinitely was announced by ÖBB and first reported by The Man is Seat 61 – an internet site focused on rail travel around Europe.
“A mixture of difficult-to-bypass late-notice trackwork in Germany and (little question) the undeniable fact that it now runs on the identical three days of the week because the European Sleeper mean they appear to have given up,” founder Mark Smith wrote.
The overnight service connected Berlin’s Ostbahnhof and Hauptbahnhof to Bruxelles Midi and took around 14 hours.
Other sleeper train options between Berlin and Brussels
Passengers can still travel between Berlin and Brussels on an overnight train using the European Sleeper.
Just like the Nightjet route, the European sleeper leaves from Berlin’s Ostbahnof and Hauptbahnhof stations on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The train stops in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Antwerp along the best way. The route has also been prolonged to hook up with Dresden and Prague as well.
Tickets for the overnight service start at €79 per person in a six-berth couchette, €99 in a five-berth couchette and €109 with a bed in a three-bed sleeper.
“It’s value paying the additional for a couchette in a 5-berth compartment as you get extra space per person than in 6-berth and in a nicer automotive with air-conditioning, too,” Smith writes in his review of the European Sleeper on The Man in Seat 61.
“With friendly staff, comfortable beds and breakfast included it’s an amazing solution to travel.”
