railways

The Rome-Munich sleeper is advertised as a single-decker Comfortline sleeper. Only three of the twelve compartments are deluxe (with shower).

aabrock2187

My wife and I took the City Night Line (1238 I believe) sleeper from Berlin Hauptbanhof to Mannheim in late November; it was scheduled to leave Berlin at 10:25pm but ran about 80 minutes behind and did not arrive until 11:40pm, leaving about 5 minutes later. We asked the train attendants when we could expect to arrive at Mannheim (originally scheduled for 4:45am) since we were behind and they didn't have a good idea, they said to ask later. They awoke us at 5:30am saying approximately 45 minutes until Mannheim, so we ate some breakfast and returned to our room at 4:57am, where we looked out the window and saw that we were pulling into Mannheim station. So this is a long-winded way of saying that if the train is significantly behind schedule you never know when you will be at your stop so pay attention.

bruce80

Most night trains have longer stops at night when they "waste" some time in stations not advertised as a regular stop in timetables - as it is possible to travel between any of the larger stations within 6 to 7 hours, people would hardly get to sleep on those routes, so they artificially extend the sleeping time by keeping the train in a station for an hour or two - I remember the Warswaw-Brussels night train (which is, as far as I know, no longer existent) stopping each night at around 4 am in Aachen, people sleeping happily inside and conductors (not so happily) walking around the platform. This is also the reason why night trains are usually not running late when time is switched from winter time to DST, they simply skip those mid-night stops.