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[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Note as well a German company recently brought back the sleeper carriages. When the travel happens overnight while I’m asleep, I tend not to care how long it takes.

Nothing is better than being able to board the train with free luggage allowance and without all the TSA lines, harassment, confiscations, etc. No wasting of my awake time (unlike air travel). Then waking up at the destination is effectively like zero time wasted.

[–] gkpy@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

german company brought back the sleeper carriages

who? flixbus?

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not Flixbus. It seemed to be a new small startup company who is just dedicated to sleeper trains.. I don’t recall the details but it recently got a spotlight.

At 1st I was baffled by your suggestion that Flixbus would be even a candidate, but then recalled that they operate trains too in some regions.

[–] gkpy@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I think it might be this one https://www.europeansleeper.eu

they are also part of eurail, nice!

baffled by your suggestion [...] flixbus

yeah they do rail too (only as a brand/front) for a company called locomore and seem to be ever expanding since they won the bus wars in the 2010s

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