How to travel on the new direct overnight train from the Austrian capital to the capital of France

The train will be departing on Monday, Thursday and Saturday evenings only and will be typically be scheduled to leave Wien/Vienna at around 19:40.

The train will also call at: St Polten (depart 20:22); Linz (depart 21:12); Salzburg (depart 22:24) and Strasbourg (arrive 05:03)

Final Destination: Paris

It will be typically scheduled to arrive into the Gare De l'Est at 09:43.

Usual onward connections:
To London from Gare Du Nord at 11:13
To Bordeaux and Toulouse from Paris Montparnasse at 11:11
To Marseille from Gare De Lyon at 11:36

Book early and save: Yes

Online bookings open: 6 months ahead of the travel date

The train conveys:

• Compartment Seats (Sitzwagen)
• Couchettes (Liegewagen); 4 berths AND 6 berths
• Standard sleeping cars (Schlafwagen) with 3 bed, 2 bed and 1 cabins
• Deluxe sleeping cars with showers (Schlafwagen) with 3 bed, 2 bed and 1 cabins

The first price you will see on the OBB ticketing site will be for the compartment seats.

Click the train details below for more info including the rail pass reservation fees:

Rail pass users must reserve before boarding these trains,

You can now book rail pass reservations without paying booking fees on the OBB website (OBB operates these trains).Though the process for doing so isn't particularly obvious, hence this step-by-step guide.

OR reservations can be arranged and paid for at the ÖBB Reisebüro desk in Wien Hbf - (ideally do this when you first arrive at Wien Hbf on the preceding train on your itinerary) or by calling OBB Customer Service (+43 5 1717).

There are no direct daytime trains between the Austrian and French capitals, but the optimum route both in terms of journey time and ease of the transfer, is to make a connection between trains in Frankfurt (Main) Hbf.
This routing only requires making one connection, but what makes it the optimum route is that the transfer is close to being guaranteed, as the time between trains will typically be 1hr 20mins.
Frankfurt (Main) Hbf is one of Europe's largest rail stations, but is an easy location in which to make a transfer as the connection will simply involve walking from one train to another.
If the train from Wien arrives on time, there are numerous food / drink outlets in which to relax before the departure on to Paris - and in the unlikely event of the train from Wien arriving more than an hour late, the connection can still be made.

Though due to major construction work on the German rail network from July 15tth until December 8th, the trains on to Paris will be departing around an hour later, due to this period of time.

Book early and save: Yes

Online bookings open: up to 6 months ahead of the travel date

It can be cheaper to make separate bookings for the journeys from Vienna and from Frankfurt.
However, if you do so and the train from Vienna arrives too late to make the booked connection, you may then have to re-book for the train on to Paris,

Seat reservations:

Seat reservations are optional on the train from Wien / Vienna to Frankfurt, so they must be proactively added when booking if you want to travel in an assigned seat(s) on this train.

In contrast they are mandatory on the train from Frankfurt to Paris, so seats will automatically be assigned for the journey on this train.
So if you will be travelling with a Eurail or InterRail pass you will need to have made a reservation prior to boarding this train.