European Sleeper has officially launched its new Paris – Brussels – Berlin night train, with the first successful journey having departed the Gare du Nord in Paris on Thursday 26 March and arrived at Berlin Hauptbahnhof the following morning.
The event drew guests from across the rail sector, public institutions, and the wider travel community.
Re-establishing a route that had almost disappeared from Europe’s wider rail network, the service forms part of European Sleeper’s growing network of night trains across Europe, including the existing Brussel-Amsterdam-Berlin-Prague route and the night train to Milan – which will begin running in September 2026.
The Paris–Berlin service will operate three times a week, bringing the total number of weekly departures to six in each direction between Brussels and Berlin.
Chris Engelsman, co-founder of European Sleeper said:Building a network doesn’t happen overnight. But step by step, we are proving that night train connections between major cities can work, for travellers and as a sustainable business.
