Originally Posted by
JoostvD
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.
This has nothing to do with the pace of stopping and accelerating, which is standardized, but with reduced speeds and tortuous, bizarre routes night trains take + interference with freight traffic.
Night trains should be scrapped because they mess up freight traffic.