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The world’s great night trains on a globe that runs to the timetable.

See where every train should be right now, or fast-forward through the night, then open any route for its stops, berths and fares.

Routes mapped0 trainsThree continents, from the Highlands to the Red Centre.
Nights on board0 nightsIf you rode them all, end to end.
Scheduled stops0 stopsEach one clickable on its route map.
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One night, or four?

The Caledonian Sleeper is a single night.

The Canadian is four.

Switch between time, nights and distance to see how they stack up.

  1. The Canadian≈ 97 h
  2. The Ghan≈ 73 h
  3. California Zephyr≈ 52 h
  4. Venice Simplon-Orient-Express≈ 26 h
  5. European Sleeper Brussels–Milan≈ 17 h
  6. European Sleeper Paris–Berlin≈ 16 h
  7. European Sleeper Brussels–Prague≈ 16 h
  8. Nightjet Vienna–Rome≈ 14 h
  9. Caledonian Sleeper≈ 13 h
  10. Intercity Notte Rome–Sicily≈ 13 h
  11. Lovćen, Belgrade–Bar≈ 11 h
  12. Nightjet Vienna–Venice≈ 11 h
  13. Night Riviera Sleeper≈ 8 h

Times are scheduled, end to end, from each operator’s 2026 timetable.

Distances are official where published; otherwise measured along our drawn route and marked ≈.

Every route

The top sleeper train journeys

01 · United Kingdom

Caledonian Sleeper

Board at Euston after dinner, wake on Rannoch Moor.

The Highlander divides at Edinburgh in the small hours and sends one portion up the West Highland Line, with branches peeling off to Inverness and Aberdeen.

About 13h 20mSunday to Friday nights
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02 · United Kingdom

Night Riviera Sleeper

Britain’s other sleeper.

Leave Paddington at a quarter to midnight, sleep through Wessex and Devon, and wake for the last two hours down the Cornish main line: china-clay country, Truro, the Hayle estuary and Mount’s Bay, into Penzance before eight.

8h 5m westboundSunday to Friday nights
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03 · United States

California Zephyr

Two nights, seven states and the best mountain railroading in the United States.

The Zephyr crosses the plains overnight, climbs the Front Range at breakfast, follows the Colorado River through its canyons, and drops over Donner Pass into California.

About 52 hoursDaily
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04 · Canada

The Canadian

Four nights in stainless-steel 1950s cars with dome windows.

The Canadian rolls through the lakes and spruce of the Shield, across the prairie, into Jasper at dawn and down the Fraser to the Pacific.

4 nightsTwice a week, all year
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05 · France · Switzerland · Austria · Italy

Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

The most famous train in the world is a one-night journey.

Board in Paris in the afternoon, dine as France slips past, wake to the Alps, cross the Arlberg and Brenner passes, and run the lagoon causeway into Venice the next evening.

1 nightSelected dates, March to November
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06 · Australia

The Ghan

Top to bottom through the middle of Australia: tropical gorges on day one, Alice Springs on day two, an underground opal town on day three, Adelaide on day four.

All meals and off-train experiences are included.

4 days, 3 nightsWeekly, March to November
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07 · Belgium · Netherlands · Germany · Czechia

European Sleeper Brussels–Prague

European Sleeper’s first route, and still its longest.

Board in Brussels or Amsterdam in the evening, cross Germany in the dark, wake in Berlin, then run up the Elbe valley through Saxon Switzerland to Prague by late morning.

15h 38m end to endThree nights a week each way
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08 · France · Belgium · Germany

European Sleeper Paris–Berlin

When Nightjet dropped Paris–Berlin in December 2025, European Sleeper stepped in.

Its second route left Paris Nord for the first time in March 2026: out through northern France and Wallonia in the evening, Hamburg at dawn, Berlin mid-morning.

16h 7m end to endThree nights a week each way
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09 · Belgium · Germany · Switzerland · Italy

European Sleeper Brussels–Milan

The newest route, launched on 9 September 2026.

Leave Brussels after dinner, sleep down the Rhine, and wake in central Switzerland for breakfast on the old Gotthard mountain line, then roll past Lugano and Lake Como into Milan before lunch.

16h 34m end to endThree nights a week each way
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10 · Austria · Italy

Nightjet Vienna–Venice

The night train that drops you at the Grand Canal.

Leave Vienna after dinner, cross Austria to Salzburg, take the Tauern line over the Alps in the dark, and wake in Friuli as the train runs down through Udine and Treviso to Venice Santa Lucia for half past eight.

10h 55m southboundEvery night, both ways
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11 · Austria · Italy

Nightjet Vienna–Rome

Fourteen hours from the Ringstrasse to the Eternal City.

The Nightjet leaves Vienna at eight, runs south through Graz and Carinthia before midnight, crosses into Italy at Tarvisio, and wakes you after Bologna for a long breakfast through Tuscany and Umbria before Rome Tiburtina at ten.

14h southboundEvery night, both ways
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12 · Italy

Intercity Notte Rome–Sicily

The last place in Europe where a passenger train goes to sea.

The Intercity Notte leaves Rome after dinner, runs down past Naples and the Calabrian coast, and in the small hours at Villa San Giovanni is divided and shunted onto a train ferry.

You can sleep through the Strait of Messina, or go up on deck for the dawn.

13h 10m to PalermoEvery night, both ways
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13 · Serbia · Montenegro

Lovćen, Belgrade–Bar

Tito’s railway to the sea.

The Lovćen sleeper leaves Belgrade in the evening, climbs through western Serbia in the dark, crosses into Montenegro at Bijelo Polje in the small hours, and comes down through the Morača canyon and across Lake Skadar to the Adriatic at Bar by seven.

It costs about €24.

11h from Belgrade CentarEvery night, all year
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Sleeper trains by region

Where the night trains run

We add a route at a time.

Every one gets its own animated map.

United Kingdom

Two overnight trains: Scotland and Cornwall.

Europe

The densest night-train network on earth.

USA and Canada

Transcontinentals across the Rockies.

Australia

Outback expeditions, coast to coast and top to bottom.

Asia

Overnight trains from Bangkok, Hanoi and Tokyo.

  • Bangkok to Chiang MaiComing soon
  • Hanoi to SapaComing soon
  • Sunrise IzumoComing soon
  • Eastern & Oriental ExpressComing soon
Questions

Sleeper trains, explained

A sleeper train is an overnight passenger train with beds.

You board in the evening, sleep in a berth or private room, and wake at your destination or somewhere spectacular along the way.

Some run one night, like the Caledonian Sleeper; others run four, like The Canadian.

It depends on what you want.

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is the most famous luxury sleeper; the California Zephyr and The Canadian are the great mountain crossings; The Ghan is the outback expedition; the Caledonian Sleeper is the best single night in Britain.

Yes.

Europe has the densest sleeper network, from the Caledonian Sleeper and the Night Riviera in Britain to European Sleeper’s Brussels–Prague, Paris–Berlin and Brussels–Milan trains, Nightjet across central Europe, and the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express for a luxury night.

Yes.

Amtrak’s long-distance trains, including the California Zephyr, carry Superliner sleeping cars with roomettes and bedrooms.

Meals are included for sleeping-car passengers.

From a seat at £54 on the Caledonian Sleeper to more than £10,000 for a Grand Suite on the Orient Express.

Each route page lists the operator’s published 2026 fares, with the source.

Sources

Where our times and fares come from.

Each route page lists every source we used, with dates.