ČD Night Inaugural Sleeper Train: Euronight Prague - Leipzig - Zürich in Czech Deluxe Sleeping Car
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Train: EuroNight EN 40458
Brand Names: ČD Night / Canopus / Nightjet
From: Praha hlavní nádraží, Czech Republic
To: Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Switzerland
Route via: Ústí nad Labem hl.n., Děčín hl.n., Schöna(Gr), Bad Schandau (Germany), Dresden Hbf, Dresden Neustadt, Riesa, Leipzig Hauptbahnhof, Naumburg, Erfurt, Fulda, Frankfurt/Main Hauptbahnhof, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Offenburg, Freiburg, Basel Bad, Basel SBB
Through car groups:
EuroCity Train EC 458 “Canopus” Prague - Leipzig (detached in Leipzig Hbf)
ÖBB Nightjet NJ 408 Berlin - Zürich (attached in Leipzig Hbf)
Restaurant/Dining Car: ČD Restaurant/JLV (car only travels Prague-Leipzig)
Travel Class: Single Deluxe Sleeping Car cabin (with ensuite shower)
ČD Night Sleeping Car No: 254
Berth No: 32 (lower bed)
Sleeping Car operator: České dráhy, JLV
Sleeping Car type: Comfortline, built by Siemens Maribor
Price: EUR 269 (SparNight/SparSchiene for 1 person in a Single Deluxe Sleeping Car cabin)
Fare: SparNight/SparSchiene
Distance: approx. 1,185 km
Scheduled travel time: 14 hours and 39 min
Departure from Praha hl.n.: 18h26 cet
Arrival in Zürich HB: 09h05 cet
Travel season: December 11/12, 2022
Train operator: České dráhy (ČD), Deutsche Bahn (DB Fernverkehr), ÖBB Nightjet, SBB CFF FFS
Electric Locomotive Praha hl.n. - Leipzig Hbf: ČD 193 296-1 “Maxl” (Siemens Vectron, owned by ELL - European Locomotive Leasing)
Electric Locomotive Frankfurt/Main Hbf - Basel SBB: DB 101 069-3 (owned by DB Fernverkehr, built by Adtranz in Kassel)
Electric Locomotive Frankfurt/Main Hbf - Basel SBB: DB 101 098-2 (built by Adtranz in Hennigsdorf)
Electric Locomotive Basel SBB - Zürich HB: SBB Re 460 001-1 (Lok-2000, built by ABB/SLM)
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Excellent report ! ČD is one of my favourite railway companies. Their combined 1st class/bar cars on domestic routes also offer nice, affordable meals, but of course there is nothing better than a classic train restaurant. I would wish more countries would keep them.
Great to have another EuroNight train. One of the best things with ČD is always their dining car. Back in the good(?) old days of Deutsche Bundesbahn, I spent many journeys entirely in the dining car, having food and drinks and reading a book, writing travel notes and talking to other people who enjoyed this as much as I did. Travelling by train should be a pleasure to all senses and not just a mere quick ride from A to B (of course sometimes you need to have a fast connection, but that is not what I mean by "travelling"). Unfortunately the pricing schemes are often strange: I just bought a DB ticket from Frankfurt to Heilbronn for 14 EUR with fast trains whereas the same route with slow local trains would have been 35 EUR. Very strange...
After having watched at least 40 of your videos, it is time to thank you. You must have a huge knowlegde about all the railways you travel, or at laest have done a lot of research before publishing. Probably both. I wonder how you know so much about the shunting procedures in advance. I for one wouldn't be easy sitting in a first class sitting car, while my personal stuff is on a sleeper somewhere else...
In september I was to travel from München to Venezia by Nightjet, but 50 min before departure time there was no train (I saw only "fält aus" on its departure track) and angree I allmost abandonded th idea of traveling by night train. Thanks for reminding that most of the times they are very much usefull and a good choice.
I'm glad I can 'travel' vicariously via your videos. You won't find me on such a trip. All that faffing around in Leipzig Hbf, three direction changes, loud platform announcements and people boarding the train in the early hours of the morning when you're trying to sleep. No thanks! I'd rather take a daytime train any time and enjoy the scenery. I'll also arrive at my destination after the normal hotel check-in time and not have to walk around the destination city like a zombie waiting for the hotel check-in time of 14:00 hrs.
For 11-12 years ago the sleeper from Prague to Zürich went this way. Coupled to a train bound for Berlin and detached in Leipzig. The Berlin train connected to cars coming from Moscow and Warszaw and then continued to Amsterdam
From 15:20 , now who could that be, looking completely inconspicuously? 🤭 Also, an execellent video! And with 52 min finally long enough. Longer is better (dont believe your wife/gf/amante if she tells you otherwise 😄)! And thank you for brInging back all that childhood memories, Praha h.l.-, Dresden HBF and Leiptzsch.
Amazing video! I hope that some day, you will continue your Pearl of Caucasus series. Whoever gets upset about it is silly, because the sights and the trains have nothing to do with a country's politics or leader.
Hear hear!
Hello, I have a lot of fun, Thank you for this video.
Sorry, not "provodnik", but "průvodce" (in czech we say "průvodce lůžkového vozu" - sleeping car guide). The train conductor is in czech "průvodčí." But however: fantastic video!
Yeah - He Is right. This was the ONLY mistake in the whole video.
@@johnnygomez7063 I would say when he wants to use local words he should do it better or use English at all.
34:54 fun fact: all the ETR 610 Pendolino units running in Italy are gonna be repainted (and so rebranded) with the Frecciarossa livery, in order to make a single high speed class (comprised of more types of trains. These now include 1st gen ETR 500, 2nd gen ETR 400, these ETR 610 and also the ETR 700, the former Fyra that now work decently well).
I'm curious why you mention "Duronto Express?"
me too
Exciting trip! Greetings from Leipzig.
yes; Did you see the scenes from Leipzig in this video ?
@@doc7austin Yes of course! =) I always wanted to know how these two trains got connected. I know a female train driver on IG who drove the Canopus from Frankfurt to Leipzig. =)
it acutally took you only 5 minutes of the journey to sit at the restaurant car! LOL!!
21:31 NO look IC 94 Wien - Warnemünde is also a international Train via Leipzig
Another fantastic production, from quite possibly the best train videographer of them all. Make it even better, by ensuring, that the lovely coloured light isn't pointed at a window, blinding the viewer
It goes a long way around.
It does because the connection between Czechia and Germany is dreadful. The only good connection is Prague to Dresden. If you see the map and think that it would be better to go west through Plzeň and Regensburg you're wrong. From Plzeň all the way to Munich is non electric and on the Czech side the tracks are 50 years old. The train line from Plzeň to Domažlice is at max capacity and if one train is late, then the domino effect goes on for the next 24 hours.
The video quality is amazing- what camera are you using?
im planning to do this trip in september, cant wait !
Is it possible at all that train leaves the station BEFORE the departure time? What about people arriving on platform eg minute before departure time? This is outrageous! ;)
these trains aren's showed in swiss information system. When I use the SBB app for connection between Basel and Zurich I won't see this train at all. So basically nobody in Switzerland cares.
Anyway I have an experience that the train to Prague via Linz was leaving Zurich 1 hour earlier and passangers were advised by email.
Interesting that you mentioned DURONTO! Would be great to see some Indian overnight trains featured in your channel.
One thing I'd say is managing expectations- considering a duronto ticket will cost 10% of what you paid for this journey.
Also when in India- please travel in 2AC and above. I see many westerners paying peanut for SL or 3AC class on Indian trains and then complain about everything.
Very, very , very beatiful video, thanks.
That was a very well done trip report Mr. Doc..:):):) That would be a neat trip to do...:):):)
Thank you for sharing this with us...:):):)
43:21 Drive through my Homeland, because I'm a Citizen of Fricktal. Very Thanks
I do not understand why in english speaking announcement they do not use "Prag/Prague" instead of "Praha"...
It's a stupid "fashion" to refuse endonyms.
Thanks for the accurate information again ! LOL🥸🥸🥸
Frohe 🎄 🤶 🎄 🤶 🎄 🎅 🎄 🤶 🎄 🎅 🎄 Weihnachten und einen guten Übergang ins Neue Jahr 2023, im Übrigen, sehr schönes Video, so lernt man fremde Länder doch ganz gut kennen.
Lovely video. What I don't understand why the train needs to go "bacwards" and around Germany to reach Zurich. Direct shorter distance train from Prague - Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland makes it in my opinion a better sense?
this train primarily serves passengers between Dresden and Southwest Germany (Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Freiburg)
There are no shorter distances, because Czech Republic is sorounded by mountains in all directions and nobody to this day has even ready plans to build new railway lines from Prague to Dresden/Nuremberg/Linz/Passau/Bratislava/Brno/Ostrava.
@@doc7austin I often travel between Mannheim and Dresden and this connection can really help me.
Should be film from EC Mimara Frankfurt Main - Zagreb or EC Emona Vienna - Ljubljana or Trieste.
I don't know why a lot of people think ČD Night is a new brand, it has been here for some years. They serve the Metropol.
Also this train is not the first long-distance train for Leipzig since a long time. The IC to Vienna was already there.
Great video. Merry Christmas.
you were lucky with the restaurant car, now the restaurant car isn't here in the planned composition
Another great video however this is a very circuitous route. The most direct route is via Munich and takes 10 hours. I'm not sure I'd want to endure 14 hours in this sleeper train. Plus the English language announcements in American English would annoy me.
Yes, grating accent.
It's an hour shorter via Linz. The night train can be more time-efficient (and cost-efficient for Zürich) in that you're sleeping while on the move, instead of spending ten hours during the day on a train. I think the Comfortline sleeping cars allow you to turn down the volume of the announcements; they also may not play announcements at night in the sleeping cars.
I don't get it... From Prague to Zürich via Leipzig? But WHY? To make the biggest possible detour away from the shortest path?
Because these 3 cars are hauled by trains which would operate without them too and there is a demand around the route.
it serves more people and there is demand
According to the Swiss Federal Railways application, if you use the Euronight section from Zurich to Prague, you can only get off in Leipzig. Instead, if you use the Eurocity Zurich - Prague section, in Leipzig it is only possible to go up: is this actually the case?
I wonder what you think of the "Happy Hours" pricing policy. In my view, it's a rip-off that has been going on for decades on Czech int'l train routes. You cannot pay double prices for the same product and service by the same provider, or am I wrong here? I think some EU institutions may have a look at that...
It's simply because they couldn't have so much lower prices than DB or ÖBB on their international routes, as that would be an unfair competition. But inside Czech Republic, the German/Austrian prices would be too high for Czechs. So they invented dual-pricing system to satisfy them both.
@@markoobid2005 I could imagine there could be some sort of international regulation to keep prices of food high in trains on "foreign" territory (to avoid "unfair competition") but these would not apply to a Czech company on the Czech territory.
@@markoobid2005 Yeah, but then, they're using it on their Polish routes as well where the local prices for food and drink services are similar... Someone was explaining to me years ago that it has to do with difference in VAT rates, but it seems strange anyway. I haven't heard about this policy elsewhere in the railway business.
Since the platform at the Baden railway station in Basel is considered German territory, no customs checks are carried out if you take a connecting train at this station in the direction of Lindau via Schaffhausen (right bank of the Rhine). Even the internal square and the ticket office of Tirano RhB is considered Swiss territory, although the station is in Italy (in front of the FS railway station)
Did I just read Duronto Express?
yes
Are you going to cover India anytime soon?
yes; india will be a topic on my channel soon
Excellent video and there is a shortcut to the route between Prague and Zurich is that this CZ Czech Railway sleeper carriage is routed via Linz Hauptbahnhof & Bahnhof Budweis (České Budějovice)with a DB Baureihe 102 Familie Lok CZ Baureihe 380 to reach Prague. Bölzberg Strecke Basel Zürich gives access to Rbf Zürich Limmattal
It's not really a shortcut since it takes almost the equal amount of time
@samyacoub4858 thank you for the information and what I've meant it's that it's a shorter distance compared to running via Elbtalbahn Dresden Hauptbahnhof Bodenbach (Decin). For the old route between Berlin and Zurich it uses the old inner German Border Station of Helmstedt Marienborn
Excellent video as always, thank you. I hope you have enjoyed a great Xmas 2022 and very best wishes for your travels in 2023.
Nice video 😊 I traveled in December to Praha, but by day train. But I eat the same pancakes like you 😋
As expected, another great train video, wow!!! Happy newyear to you all.
Nice Video 👍
Greetings from Chemnitz
I found a couple of night trains carrying a restaurant car. One in Poland (from Świnoujście to Przemysl) and Corona train (from Budapest to Brasov in Romania)
I have taken the IC Przemyslanin train in Poland. Sleeper passengers may not use the restaurant car, as the latter is in the seated section, and passage between the sleeper section and seated area is prohibited.
@@A_Canadian_In_Poland it was open when I traveled. And if it wasn't, you can always ask the attendant to open the doors between carriages. That's why the restaurant is there, to be used by all guests ;)
Your cabine looks a lot like the Nightjet, doesn't it?
Great video!
Are the lights dimmed for sleeping?
Na toll, bei 27:10 bin ich dann auch verewigt. 😆
da sind wir aber quit, denn scheinbar hast du mich auch aufgenommen )))))
Ein sehr schönes und interessantes Video, aber in Zürich stand der SBB ETR 610.
Hello Doc7Austin, may I ask if you were able to buy your ticket in advance? My family and I have an upcoming trip from Zurich to Prague (opposite way) and was planning to book a ticket for EN 40459 NightJet as early as now, but the website says I am not able to do that. Hope you can guide be how this can be done. Thank you!
It was no problem to book the train on cd.cz
For now no way to book the sleeping car supplement on-line if you have InterRail / EURail ticket. It's possible only at the station. :(
Without the InterRail / EURail it does work.
Do not buy Interail/Eurail for such journeys; its not worth it
@@doc7austin Of course not. That pass is good only if you have two homes across Europe and have no idea when you have to be at the home #1 versus home #2, often literally in the last minute.
@@doc7austin EU/Inter-Rail was always a very poor deal. Back until few years ago we used the City-Star tickets paired with UZ/RZD/BC sleeping cars. Than, the "Global Price" rip-off killed all the rail deals and sanctions + war + idiot RZD managers killed the sleeping car deals. So we have to live with what remains. Of course, the best deal (back-than) was the SlovakRail CITY-STAR deal to Basel paired with local trains from Basel SNCF to the Strasbourg area. Or the MÁV CITY-STAR Germany deal. Once used the RZD deal from Vienna to Nice (and very cheap overnight ticket from Nice to Strasbourg). The RZD train went via Innsbruck avoiding Rosenheim corridor... it was pretty nice. One of my cup holders (see my comment to your Amtrak Southwest Chief!) comes from that trip. Have some more, but not all nine of them. Unfortunately neither your Ukrainian, nor my Russians are the proper ones. The proper one should be of silver. Got that too... for one Buck. Was sold on a garage sale in the SF Bay Area, brand new - and 30 Rbl (Инвалютные Рубли "Берёзки") price tag still attached. My wife proudly returned home with it... I looked, noticed the silver probe mark and the price tag... told her: "next time if you see something like that, but of yellow color and with 100 Rbl price tag - sold for ten Bucks, by all means - please buy it!). Believe or not, we got an other one as well, but still "just" of silver. LOL.
@21:22 Can anyone explain why this medium of transportation between Frankfurt and Prag stays for almost 2 hours(!) in Leipzig - basically doing nothing? Do you need to refill the coal there?!?! The amount of time it rests in Leipzig is about as much time to get from Frankfurt to Prag by plane?!?!
the time is needed to couple with the nightjet train berlin-zürich
@@doc7austinThanks for the answer. Doesn't sound like "plug and play", huh? Are those being welded together...
Well, at the end I decided against this train ride and for a day train
@@Eurobunker The Problem is not the "Plug and Play" but rather all the logistics and procedures need to under all circumstances operate this train. Its not just "coupeling" and of you go. You need to do a so called "Vollständige Bremsprobe" wich will take time. Also you aren't the only train in the station and if you factor in shunting speeds etc. this is the time you get with some buffer.
The real reason why this takes so long is that you are using procedures and technic from the early 20th century. Therefore its quit fast.
Also before you comment: No speeding this up wont be done with one change. Railways are difficult and the procedures connected even more. But things are moving in the right direction.
Last month I took the Nightjet from Berlin to Zurich. Found out that there are CD cars attached at the back of my train when we reached Zurich but another batch of trains consisting MAV and CD cars as well. But my train arrived Zurich about 1 hour late and the sun rises when we're still in Germany
11:55 ...It must be humouristic touch!... "TOO BOTTLES... OF WATER"...
hahaha; thats a good one
Смотря это видео вижу многие машинисты поездов в Европе уже в возрасте.Плохо что им нельзя выйти на пенсию в 55 лет.
all money was spent on Prague???? where did you get this from?????
I d like to know too how it was meant.He meant The Budget of ex-CSSR ..maybe .In this case I agree with him 😁
The majority was - I am from Brno which was next in line, and my wife is from Bratislava which was a horrible mess. I think Ostrava got quite a lot as well as it was the main industrial centre.
yes; i referred to cssr
@@doc7austin It is nonsense at all. Slovakia and industry was prefered. For time from WWII Prague got maybe metro (subway for villagers, natives drive cars), highway throught city (mostly for traversal), Kongresovy palac (most of member of parliament was not from Prague). Only Prague-specific local construction is Zizkovska vez (TV tower). Little irony but not far from true...
Todays "Pražák" (Prague native) say "Já su z Prahe" (read "I am from Prague" and not "I born in Prague") and left Prague for weekends because launch in homeland in Brno (and the rest of Moravia) :-) :-) :-)
great train! very cheap prices I think!
Excellent Report! Love the amount of work you put in your videos. You are definitely my biggest inspiration source.
Duranto train India is also good
Is there a reason for the route being that roundabout? Is it to save costs by attaching it to existing services, rather than going straight via Nuremberg and Munich?
There is no electrification available via Nuremberg;
@doc7austin what it can do is actually follow the regional Express RE42 Leipzig Hbf via ehemalige Grenzbahnhof (former Border Station German Democratic Republic) Probstzella DDR BRD ehemalige Grenzbahnhof ( former Border Station Federal Republic of Germany which was called West Germany in the 1980s) Ludwigsstadt Frankenwaldbahn Nürnberg Hbf which is actually electrified. If you knew your history of the Cold War the old Berlin Zurich sleeper route went through Helmstedt Marienborn like the US military Berlin Duty Train, which was Frankfurt am Main Hbf West Berlin Zoologischer Bahnhof.
best train im from czech republic and české dráhy have a the most modern train ConfortJet first travel is from Prague and from prague to berlin date is august - september and idk date
I am a big ČD fan (of course 🇨🇿😉), but this sleeping cabin doesn't look particularly cosy.
Excellent video. I've only travelled twice on sleeper trains, only in Italy though, and it is absolutely amazing that night trains in Europe are having a resurgence
Great video !!
Great.
I’m going to travel this train for a few days from Usti nad Labem to Basel SBB - seat + bike and Interrail Global Pass
Super, an excellent video, you feel like going on this train yourself.
Great VDO. I am planning to book EC459 from Frankfurt-Prague.
CD Night Provodnik? what does it mean?
Provodník is probably the cabin attendant, but průvodčí is the right word
@@nacekozo fakt?
@@VladimirLukele skutečně 😁
@@nacekozo :D
@@nacekozo Exact! When I used the Prague - Zurich train via Summerau (Gr) the conductor of the WL was Polish and sold beer etc. even to those who did not occupy a seat in the WL. The ticket agent of the Czech railways made me pay in Euros (3.00 €) the section between the state border and Summerau loco. Subsequently, the ticket agent of the Austrian railways issued me a ticket from the border, Summerau (Gr), to Linz Hbf. I practically paid twice for the journey between the border and the station from which it takes its name.
So it's a fully pledged train, not a through car as it is via Linz
it is just 3 through car prague - zürich
@@doc7austin 3 of them, not a single one ^_^
How to reserve sleeper class with pre booked tickets
21:57 So there is still no Czech Train from Prague to Zurich, but only through Carriage. Through Carriage have existed before. This is nothing new
these through carriages were withdrawn in December 2016
@@doc7austin It could be, but the Poster in Prague said that a Czech Night Train was going to Zurich. Anyway, the Video is still brilliant again. Thanks very much
My opinion is: top notch.
Frage: Wo kann man für den CD-Night Schlafwagen Tickets in Deutschland buchen? DANKE! Sehr schönes Video!
cd.cz/eshop
Switzerland is the best place in Europe ❤
but very expensive, though
Pas terrible la lumière artificiel dans la voiture restaurant
well, at least this train had an open restaurant car
270 Euro for one person?
yes; for a single compartment
@@doc7austin Do not take it personel a Planeticket is cheaper isn't?
@alibengali1463 yes; but flying is very stressful in my eyes
lovely video 💪
maxim ;-)
Hey, you should raise a claim for too early arrival!
:))))
Can you fly kuwait airways frankfurt to kuwait Emirates frankfurt to Dubai Etihad airline Seoul to Abu Dhabi oman air frankfurt to Muscat gulf air Frankfurt to Bahrain sas airline Copenhagen to oslo
It doesnˋt work like that, he canˋt travel the whole word just to make you happy. If you want to do it, then travel by yourself! How is he supposed to fly on these routes which cost more than 20ˋ000 Euro and are also completely random with no chronological order!!! Please think about a comment before you post one!!!
need the full live announcement 😢
announcement for what?
@@doc7austin sorry, i dont know the exact term in engish: the announcement of the departure of a train from the station
Where buy tickets
cd.cz
These "global" prices are a rip off. the DB needs to pull their head in and participate in these trains.
How funny it took 12 min to shunt at Leipzig! No one knows how to do it any more.
Earlier train departure? How is it possible?😯
Officially, there's no boarding allowed in Basel. On the timetable, only an arrival time is posted. So the train can leave whenever it is ready and a path is available.
What happens if you board the seating car in basel sbb and have a swisspass as ticket?
@@doc7austin I think you will be fine. No one actually cares. You could also say you've gotten on in Basel Bad Bf.
I think it's a similar thing to the EC Zurich-Munich. They changed the timetable to "only boarding" when going to Munich and "only alighting" when going to Zurich.
Trains from Germany are often late. The SBB doesn't want to deal with missed connections and unhappy passengers. For the unreliable ICEs they already have a train driver and train set reserved as an emergency replacement in Basel.
In the case Basel-Zurich there's an IC leaving later and arriving earlier.
Mann kann auch über die öbb App Tickets buchen für den EN
regelmäßig nicht; deshalb cd.cz/eshop
@@doc7austin Aufpreis zu EURail/InterRail geht gar nicht, nirgendwo. Muß regelmäßig zw. Budapest und Baden-Baden fahren. Habe mit dem Aufpreis Alles mögliche (CD, Slovakrail, ÖBB, SBB, DB) versucht und geflucht. Also dann fahre tagesüber.
Naja, genau deshalb rate ich vom Kauf vom Interrail Globalpass auch ab;
@@doc7austin I have to. For me the 3-month EU/EU-Rail (depending on the actual deal) is quite important because I never know, when I will be in BP or in eastern France (Alsace). A burden of having two homes....
@@doc7austin Apologies for the typo, I mean, EU/Inter-Rail. Have multiple passports, so buying whatever is on sale, usually the 3-month 1st class.
In former Czechoslovak socialisti republic all money was spent in Prague? It is nonsense :-) All money was spend in Slovakia. To make from rural country civilization :-) I born in Prague so my point of view is quite different :-) Today is the same. Try to compare road "quality" in Prague and countryside...
im so happy with čd night
what is the brightest star in the starry sky?
our sun
Sun is brightest by the day time. On the starry sky brightest star is Sirius. Next one is Canopus 😉
The sleeping car via linz is often sold out 😢