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Passengers can still travel between Berlin and Brussels on an overnight train using the European Sleeper.
A sleeper train service connecting Berlin and Brussels will end operations at the end of March. The Nightjet that links the German and Belgium capitals currently runs three times a week. The service is operated by ÖBB Austria’s national railway company and is part of a wider network of night trains that connect many of Germany’s big cities to other European destinations.Sleeper train axed over construction work in GermanyThe Nightjet sleeper train from Berlin to Brussels, which was launched in December 2023, will cease operations on 28 March. The decision to axe the service indefinitely was announced by ÖBB and first reported by The Man is Seat 61 – a website focused on rail travel around Europe.“A combination of difficult-to-bypass late-notice trackwork in Germany and (no doubt) the fact that it now runs on the same three days of the week as the European Sleeper mean they seem 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 BrusselsPassengers can still travel between Berlin and Brussels on an overnight train using the European Sleeper. 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 way. The route has also been extended to connect to 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 worth paying the extra for a couchette in a 5-berth compartment as you get more space per person than in 6-berth and in a nicer car 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 a great way to travel.”
