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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Deborah Cole in Berlin

It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts

ÖBB said it would maintain the service between Vienna and Brussels, as well as popular routes such as Vienna-Amsterdam and Munich–Rome.
ÖBB said it would maintain the service between Vienna and Brussels, as well as popular routes such as Vienna-Amsterdam and Munich–Rome. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

Night train services linking Paris, Berlin and Vienna are to end from mid-December because of the French government’s withdrawal of funding, the Austrian national rail operator has said, in a blow to sleeper travel on important European routes.

ÖBB, the largest provider of such trains in Europe, has led a drive to revive a once popular form of low-emission transport as an alternative to flying.

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