You might soon be able to travel from Switzerland to Sweden on this new sleeper train

Published on 31/10/2025 - 16:02 GMT+1

Another caller nighttime train whitethorn soon beryllium joining Europe’s increasing fleet.

Proposals are underway for a nonstop relationship betwixt Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden.

The task is presently awaiting support from nan Swiss Parliament. If it gets nan greenish light, nan work will tally 3 times a week, starting successful mid-April adjacent year.

New nighttime train to link Basel, Copenhagen and Malmö

This week, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) unveiled plans for nan caller night train, which will recreation from Basel to Copenhagen successful Denmark and Malmö successful Sweden

A spokesperson for nan institution said nan caller work is “making climate-friendly recreation to Northern Europe moreover much accessible”, and added that it “meets nan increasing request for sustainable, cross-border mobility”.

The EuroNight will tally 3 times a week successful some directions, pinch nan first work slated to depart connected 15 April, 2026.

The sleeper will time off from Basel astatine 5:35pm connected Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The travel will return 16 hours, arriving successful Malmö astatine 9:35am, according to SBB.

From Malmö, trains will depart astatine 6:57pm connected Thursdays, Saturdays and Mondays and get successful Basel astatine 11:30am, a travel clip of 16 hours 30 minutes.

The train will screen a region of astir 1,400 kilometres. En route, it will extremity successful Freiburg (Breisgau), Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Frankfurt (Main) Süd and Hamburg successful Germany, and Padborg, Kolding, Odense, Høje Taastrup and Copenhagen Airport successful Denmark.

Due to scheduling constraints, nan work won’t extremity astatine Copenhagen Central Station, but travellers tin scope nan Danish superior from Høje Taastrup aliases Copenhagen Airport successful astir 15 minutes utilizing nan S-Bahn municipality railway.

The sleeper will beryllium capable to accommodate astir 350 passengers successful sleeping, couchette and seating carriages.

Tickets for nan EuroNight work are expected to spell connected waste starting 4 November.

New sleeper train awaits authorities funding

Night trains are accelerated becoming 1 of nan astir celebrated ways to recreation astir Europe. But their advancement is being halted by problems of precocious moving costs.

Recently, Austrian nationalist obstruction usability ÖBB announced its nighttime trains linking Paris pinch Vienna and Berlin will beryllium discontinued from mid-December pursuing nan French government’s withdrawal of funding.

The connection for nan caller sleeper from Switzerland to Sweden is still pending arsenic nan obstruction institution is awaiting support for authorities financial support.

The Swiss authorities has earmarked CHF47 cardinal (€50.6 million) done 2030 to support world nighttime train services arsenic portion of nan CO2 Act, which intends to halve nan country’s emissions successful nan adjacent 5 years. However, this still needs to beryllium approved by parliament successful nan wintertime session.

Should nan backing not beryllium approved, SBB says it will pass customers and refund immoderate tickets that person already been booked.