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Alpen-Sylt night trains begin operation

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RDC Germany successfully operated the inaugural Sylt – Salzburg Alpen-Sylt overnight train on July 5, carrying 120 passengers.
The train is operating on Thursdays and Saturdays from Westerland/Sylt via Hamburg, Frankfurt/Main and Munich to Salzburg, returning on Fridays and Sundays. The train comprises 10-11 coaches and is offering journeys times of 16-19 hours.
Sylt is an island in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), known for its tourist resorts as well as for its 40-kilometre-long sandy beach.

Back to railway matters: last year (or was it two years ago?) another independent Geman rail operator tried running a (daytime) long-distance service and went out of business pretty soon. I wonder how this one will fare.

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An der Nordseeküste, am plattdeutschen Strand
Sind die Fische im Wasser, und selten am Land.

That neck of the woods? Haven't really done Norddeutschland very much if I'm honest.
 

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Sylt is an island in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), known for its tourist resorts as well as for its 40-kilometre-long sandy beach.

Back to railway matters: last year (or was it two years ago?) another independent Geman rail operator tried running a (daytime) long-distance service and went out of business pretty soon. I wonder how this one will fare.

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Rather a clever choice of route, with tourist destinations at both ends (though I don't think Sylt in winter will be quite as overrun).

IIRC there have been at least two open-access operators - the first one (I forget the name) failed, then Flixtrain started up, shut down during Covid, and is about to resume operations. But these were day trains.
 

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The other open access service you're thinking of was a joint venture between HKX (Hamburg-Köln-Express) and NOB (Nord-Ostsee-Bahn, the former franchised operator of Hamburg - Westerland regional trains). Saw it at Düsseldorf once and it was very strange, the rake was comprised of both NOB's Bombardier Married Pair coaches and HKX's assorted old hire-ins!
 

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The other open access service you're thinking of was a joint venture between HKX (Hamburg-Köln-Express) and NOB (Nord-Ostsee-Bahn, the former franchised operator of Hamburg - Westerland regional trains). Saw it at Düsseldorf once and it was very strange, the rake was comprised of both NOB's Bombardier Married Pair coaches and HKX's assorted old hire-ins!
That service, and the Locomore one between Berlin and Stuttgart, was taken over by Flix.
 

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DB used to thin out its sleeper routes in November - the quietest time of the year.
Used to be a good time to travel as you would often get a compartment to yourself if booked e.g. as a Double sleeper.
 

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Used to be a good time to travel as you would often get a compartment to yourself if booked e.g. as a Double sleeper.

It's a long time since I've used a DB night train, but on a couple of occasions by going midweek I got a couchette compartment to myself. Booking a 4 rather than a 6 was said to make this more likely as most people don't want those.
 
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