What it’s like to catch the Brussels to Berlin sleeper train
by Andrew Eames
Feb 29, 2024
3 minutes
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At first sight, there’s nothing unusual about the passengers assembling on platform 4 of Brussels Midi shortly before 7.30pm. There are families with huge suitcases, enterprising fiftysomething couples and younger single travellers with backpacks. Excitable children are already in pyjamas, clutching cuddly toys. It’s a standard crowd for an international train, you might say, and yet we eye each other, and nod imperceptibly, acknowledging an instant confederacy: we all know what we’re in for.
The secret’s out when the 19.22 pulls in. Through the sleek rumbles a pick (via ) as sustainably as possible: on a sleeper.
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