[Travel] Hotels on Rails

[Raleigh Chopper]

Looks like the French are going to bring back night trains, with your own room, privacy and comfort along with a bar and restaurant as an alternative to short/medium flights at very competitive fares.
Many countries and cities included up to Edinburgh by 2024.
If it goes ahead it's a huge yes from me and not really because of the old carbon footprint.
Would you consider or use it to go on holiday?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Looks like the French are going to bring back night trains, with your own room, privacy and comfort along with a bar and restaurant as an alternative to short/medium flights at very competitive fares.
Many countries and cities included up to Edinburgh by 2024.
If it goes ahead it's a huge yes from me and not really because of the old carbon footprint.
Would you consider or use it to go on holiday?

Before the advent of cheap flights (and cos me dad worked for British Rail) we used to go all the way from Scotland to Alicante by train. Astoundingly super adventure for little kids who had previously never been any further than Millport for their holidays. The final France-Spain leg was on a sleeper train called the Mare Nostrum. Which at the time seemed impossibly exotic. Still remember it vividly to this day

 

[KNC]

Private rooms are out there already. Some en-suite.
Edinburgh. Well, let’s see. There are huge safety restrictions for anything that goes through the tunnel. Maybe they’ll convert an old Eurostar.

 

[Baker lite]

Will UK citizens be able to use this? Now that we have left the EU..


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[Chicken Run]

http://www.sleeper.scot/

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[KNC]

https://www.midnight-trains.com/en/home, BTW.

 

[Baker lite]

http://www.sleeper.scot/

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You’d sleep like a top with Bravo Lima on the deadman’s handle [emoji6]


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[gripper stebson]

Will it stop in Georgia?

 

[Nitram]

Looks very promising definitely would use it.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Private rooms are out there already. Some en-suite.
Edinburgh. Well, let’s see. There are huge safety restrictions for anything that goes through the tunnel. Maybe they’ll convert an old Eurostar.

It looks as if it is non stop from Paris to Edinburgh and London is not city on the list so still use the Caledonian sleeper.
Seems that you will have to get to Paris on Eurostar first.
Still like the idea though even as a one off.

 

[Madafwo]

Loved my travels on the sleeper from Euston to Fort William and can't wait to do it again when time/money allows.

Going through the tunnel shouldn't be much of an issue, it was planned to have sleeper services right from the beginning.

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Loved my travels on the sleeper from Euston to Fort William and can't wait to do it again when time/money allows.

Going through the tunnel shouldn't be much of an issue, it was planned to have sleeper services right from the beginning.

The West Highland Railway is a thing of beauty.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

The best night's sleep I ever had in my life was on Night train in India.
I can't remember where I was going but i never forget the motion of the train and the sound of the train and the sound of the whistle in the distance as I was dropping off to sleep.
I slept like a log.

 

[KNC]

Loved my travels on the sleeper from Euston to Fort William and can't wait to do it again when time/money allows.

Going through the tunnel shouldn't be much of an issue, it was planned to have sleeper services right from the beginning.

Those trains, The Nightstars, were specifically built for the tunnel. But the government pulled out. Cost millions back then. They were eventually sold to Canada. It would very much be an issue now.

 

[el punal]

http://www.sleeper.scot/

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That’s gorgeous! Any chance Southern doing the same thing? It would be nice having an eight minute kip between Brighton and Falmer on match days.

 

[Chicken Run]

You’d sleep like a top with Bravo Lima on the deadman’s handle [emoji6]


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I’d like to drain the bar dry with BL non stop to Inverness and see what happened on arrival


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[Chicken Run]

That’s gorgeous! Any chance Southern doing the same thing? It would be nice having an eight minute kip between Brighton and Falmer on match days.

When Hughton was IC I often had a 80 minute kip soon after kick off!!


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[Swansman]

I assume they will be smoke-free and that pretty much rules me out.

 

[7:18]

Would totally use these, this would be amazing!

 

[Baker lite]

I’d like to drain the bar dry with BL non stop to Inverness and see what happened on arrival


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Red death and cheese and onion crisps all the way [emoji1303][emoji23]️


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