Stuttgart (dpa/lsw) – Get on the train in Stuttgart, Göppingen or Ulm in the evening and wake up for breakfast in a European metropolis, which will be possible in the future with a new night train. With the timetable change on Sunday (December 11), the Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB) is extending the previous night train service from Munich to Budapest (Hungary), Vienna (Austria), Venice (Italy), Zagreb and – depending on the date – Rijeka (both Croatia). . Now the so-called Nightjet is to drive daily from or to Stuttgart.
Not the only change due to the new timetable: the night train between Zurich and Hamburg now also stops in Bruchsal and Heidelberg, according to the railways. In addition, a new night train with sleeping and couchette cars will be on its way from Freiburg via Offenburg, Karlsruhe and Mannheim to Halle, Leipzig, Dresden, Bad Schandau and Prague.
Deutsche Bahn had actually left the night train business in 2016. The night trains traveling through Germany are operated by ÖBB. Baden-Württemberg was previously connected to the Nightjet network on the north-south axis with stops in Mannheim, Karlsruhe and Freiburg. Karlsruhe has also recently been served by the Vienna-Paris Nightjet in the direction of Paris.
