EuroNight

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EuroNight

EuroNight, abbreviated EN, is a European train category which denotes many main-line national and international night train services within the Western and Central European inter-city rail network.

Overview[]

European night trains with sleeper and/or couchette cars. EuroNight trains are designated "EN".

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.

Deutsche Bahn operated 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 terminated 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, TI,

SNCF

48 h
EN 220
EN 221 		Venezia Santa Lucia – Venezia Mestre – Padova – Vicenza railway station – Verona Porta Nuova – Brescia – Milano Centrale – Dijon-Ville station – Paris Gare de 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 Hbf. – St. Pölten Hbf. – Amstetten – St. Valentin – Linz Hbf. – Wels Hbf. – Attnang-Puchheim – Vöcklabruck – Salzburg Hbf. – Villach Hbf. – Tarvisio Boscoverde – Udine – Pordenone – Conegliano – Treviso Centrale – 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, 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 Hbf. – 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 Hbf. 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, BČ, RŽD 17 h
EN 442
EN 443
 Bohemia Praha hlavní nádraží – Pardubice – Olomouc – Ostrava – Bohumín – Český Těšín – Žilina – Poprad – Košice – Humenné ČD, ŽSSK 12 h
9 h
EN 444
EN 445
 Slovakia Praha hlavní nádraží – Pardubice – Olomouc – Ostrava – Bohumín – Český Těšín – Žilina – Poprad – Košice ČD, ŽSSK 10 h
9 h
EN 446
EN 447 		D 21JA Warszawa Wschodnia – Poznań Gl. – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin Hbf. (tief) – Dortmund Hauptbahnhof – Köln Hauptbahnhof 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 – Paris-Est Deutsche Bahn, RŽD, SNCF, PKP, BČ 38 h
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 Südbahnhof. – 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 Hbf MÁV, ÖBB 12 h
EN 472
EN 473 		Ister Budapest-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Békéscsaba – Lőkösháza – Curtici – Arad – Teiuș – Brașov – Ploiești Vest – București Gara de Nord MÁV, CFR 14
(30) h
EN 476
EN 477 		Metropol Berlin Hbf. – 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 Westbahnhof – 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 kolodvor (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 an der Mur – Wiener Neustadt – Wien-Meidling – Wien Matzleinsdorf ÖBB 15 h

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "International Services from May 23" (changes taking effect). Thomas Cook European Timetable (May 1–22, 1993 edition), p. 3. Peterborough, UK: Thomas Cook Publishing.
  2. ^ a b DB to withdraw all remaining sleeper trains 21 December 2015
  3. ^ "EuroNight to Copenhagen, Prague, Moscow". Dutch Railways NS. 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2012-10-09.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2014-11-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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