‘Train bragging’: Swedish service joins glorious resurgence of sleeper travel

Overnight carriages are coming out of mothballs for the Hamburg to Stockholm service as the flight-free movement gathers pace

On one hand, who wouldn’t love to shower on a train? On the other, if the shower cubicle is so small that you can’t get up again when you’ve dropped the soap maybe it is not such a wonderful idea.

This year is seeing the glorious resurgence of the sleeper train around Europe, with new routes including Brussels to Prague and Graz, in Austria, to Warsaw. This month a particularly significant overnight train – from Hamburg to Stockholm – starts running. It will be a “gamechanger”, according to the rail travel expert Mark Smith.