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Multiple Nightjet Cancellations Due To Construction Work
On multiple dates in 2025 Nightjet overnight trains won't be able to operate on multiple routes, Brussels, Paris and Rome are among the affected locations.
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Nightjet trains provide the majority of overnight train services across western Europe.
The long international routes taken by the Nightjet trains are inevitably susceptible to being impacted by construction work though this more typically causes the trains to be diverted on to lengthier, alternative routes.
However, diversions such as these require a new temporary timetable and the drivers and train crew need time to make the adjustment - Train drivers can't take trains full of travellers along routes that they haven't driven before.
So without months of preparation, Nightjet is unable to make the necessary adjustments, which results in a temporary suspension of service - and in recent months there seems to be a trend of Nightjet not being given sufficient advance notice
Also there may not be a viable alternative route, as the number of European international routes available to long-distance trains is comparatively small.
Current and future temporary service alterations
Unfortunately due to a series of unconnected major construction projects in Austria, Belgium, France and Germany, multiple Nightjet routes are having to be suspended for varying lengths of time during Spring / Summer 2025:
Alternative connections by daytime trains are available on all routes:
The affected routes
- Bruxelles → Berlin: From March 27th until a yet to be confirmed future date
- Berlin → Bruxelles: From March 26th until a yet to be confirmed future date
- Berlin → Paris: March 27th - April 10th and April 24th - May 25th
- Paris → Berlin: March 28th - April 9th and April 25th - May 23rd
- Paris → Vienna / Wien: April 7th - 11th and April 25th - May 9th and May 21st - 26th
- Vienna / Wien → Paris: April 6th - April 8th and April 24th - May 8th and May 20th - 22nd
- Munich / München ↔ Florence / Firenze - Rome / Roma: until July 13th
- Munich / München ↔ Milano - Genova - La Spezia: until July 13th
- Stuttgart - Munich / München ↔ Venice / Venezia: until July 13th
- Amsterdam → Basel - Zurich: from April 15th to April 28th
- Zurich - Basel → Amsterdam: from April 14th to April 27th
- Zurich - Basel → Dresden - Praha / Prague: from April 14th to April 27th
- Praha / Prague - Dresden → Basel - Zurich: from April 13th to April 26th
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