Night train route
European Sleeper
Paris → Berlin · France · Belgium · Germany
European Sleeper in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,100 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 13 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 81 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- European Sleeper
- Train
- Sleeper · couchettes
- Countries
- France, Belgium, Germany
- In service since
- 2026
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The night train that replaced the lost Nightjet: Paris to Berlin via Brussels three times a week since March 2026, the open-access sleeper’s boldest route yet.
How this line was checked
- The 308 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 19302063 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 26 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: European Sleeper — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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All sleepers serving these cities: night trains from Paris · night trains from Berlin · all 108 night trains.
More train routes in France · Belgium · Germany.
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