Better for the environment, and decidedly glamorous, Europe’s sleeper trains are back on the rails as travellers sensitive to flygskam (flying shame)—or just plain sick of the drudgery of air travel—choose to pay quite a bit more to take quite a bit longer to get where they need to go.Just a few decades ago, writes the Telegraph, the sleeper trains connecting “Calais with Nice, Plymouth with Edinburgh, and even London with Milford Haven via Cardiff and Swansea” seemed to have “reached their final destination,” thanks to a combination of cut-rate airlines, rail strikes, and “generally shoddy service”.
Source: New European Sleeper Car Service Heralds a Rail Renaissance – The Energy Mix
