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.

EuroNight

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
NumberNameRouteOperatorTravel 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, GVG 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 Wein 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. 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.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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