Originally Posted by
schriste
For me it is not the rocking and rolling that wakes me up at night, but the sudden stops in stations and the resulting lack of any motion (plus possible light intrusion into your cabin from the station). If you have never taken a sleeper… why not give it a try… you may indeed regret it, but it will be a new experience that you can then choose to not repeat.
I think you must be a very sensitive sleeper. If you look at train schedules, you will see that the night trains usually take several hours longer than the day trains going between the same cities. The reason for this is that the night trains go much slower. So, the station stops are not sudden, but very slowly done.
But, I completely agree that this is a personal thing.