2022 Long Distance Timetable Highlights

[Fragezeichnen]

The new 2022 timetable is available on bahn.de from today, and has been on oebb.at for a couple of weeks.
Some highlights:

• Non-stop ICE Sprinter Berlin - Köln taking only 4 hours instead of 4:30. Infuriatingly for UK-bound travellers this has a 2 minute connection with the Brussels ICE in one direction, and 1 minute in the other
• New NightJet Vienna - Munich - Paris, though only on alternate days(not literally so as the russians like to do - fixed days of the week!)
• Vienna portion of the Berlin - Vienna/Budapest/Przemyśl Nightjet extended to Graz
• Vienna - Bucharest Night Train re-routed via Timisoara
• New Vienna - Cluj Night Train
• Daily RailJet Vienna - Innsbruck - Lindau - Frankfurt
• New connection Ljubljana - Graz - Budapest
• Berlin - Vienna ICE extended to Hamburg
• New daily NightJet Zürich - Amsterdam, using RDC rolling stock
• Summer only Munich - Rimini Eurocity to run year-round

Anything to add?

 

[jamesontheroad]

From 26 June 2022, EN496/497 between Stockholm and Hamburg begins. Will not run every day all year, but precise pattern tbc.

 

[DanielB]

• New daily NightJet Zürich - Amsterdam, using RDC rolling stock

The RDC stock are only the sleeper and couchette cars. Additionally there will be SBB and DB seated cars in the train composition as it serves as overnight IC as well.

 

[StephenHunter]

NightJet have been converting some of their seating cars to couchettes. I stumbled on the press launch in Salzburg on Monday.

 

[30907]

NightJet have been converting some of their surplus ÖBB seating cars to couchettes.

Corrected - AFAIK they still need all their seated cars, while the couchettes are on the elderly side

On a sadder note, the massive engineering works on Prague-C Trebova-Brno mean that EC Hungaria Hamburg-Budapest is split in Praha Hl (until August?) as the current workaround of avoiding Hlavni altogether can no longer be pathed. (Or it caused more complaints than they anticipate the alternative will? - from experience there is a huge churn of passengers at Prague). Makes Dresden-Budapest 2hr slower

 

[popeter45]

im not seeing any Berlin - Stockholm snalltaget trains past Jan 2
are we still waiting on them are will it stop running till a later date?
was planning on using it for a febuary trip to malmo but if no gonna need to ajust plans

 

[JonasB]

im not seeing any Berlin - Stockholm snalltaget trains past Jan 2
are we still waiting on them are will it stop running till a later date?
was planning on using it for a febuary trip to malmo but if no gonna need to ajust plans

Snälltåget's Berlin-Stockholm night train is seasonal. There is a departure from Berlin on the 3rd, but that is the last one until Easter.