The night train will leave Brussels at 5pm and arrive in Venice the next day at 2pm. The return journey there will leave at 3pm and end the next day at 11am in Brussels. The European Sleeper company will announce the cost of the journey soon. Tickets can only be booked from September onwards.
European Sleeper will lease additional carriages for the new connection. The railway company says it wants to meet the temporary high demand for additional trains to and from the Alps and northern Italy. Once the busy period is over, the extra carriages will be returned to the leasing company.
For Brussels, this means a third night train connection. The European Sleeper already operates three times a week to and from the Czech capital Prague via Berlin. With the Nightjet of Austrian railway company ÖBB, you can travel from Brussels to Berlin and Vienna three times a week.
European Sleeper also plans to create a daily night train between the Dutch capital Amsterdam and Barcelona, in the Spanish region of Catalonia, via Brussels.
Implementation of ambitious plans to develop a European network with night trains is going slower than expected. This is due to complex regulations in different European countries, the high costs of night train journeys and a chronic shortage of suitable train carriages.
