A brand new sleeper prepare linking northern Italy’s Milan to Brussels and Amsterdam is ready to launch in June 2026, night time prepare operator European Sleeper introduced on Wednesday.
The deliberate route will soak up Cologne in Germany, Bern and Brig in Switzerland and Domodossola and Stresa on Lake Maggiore earlier than arriving in Milan, the Dutch-Belgian firm mentioned in a press launch.
The service is ready to function 3 times per week, leaving Amsterdam and Brussels on Monday, Thursday and Saturday evenings and arriving in Switzerland and Italy the next morning.
It will run in the other way from Milan on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday nights, the operator mentioned.
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Tickets can be out there to buy by February 2026, with the primary service scheduled to go away Brussels and Amsterdam for Milan on Thursday, June 18th.
The route is the second cross-border rail hyperlink that European Sleeper has introduced for subsequent yr, following the deliberate begin of a service linking Paris and Berlin in March 2026.
A spread of worth factors can be on supply, it mentioned, making the journey “accessible to a variety of travellers, from finances -conscious passengers to these searching for additional consolation.”
The service is not the one worldwide route on observe to launch from Italy subsequent yr: nationwide rail operator FS Group in May introduced new high-speed rail hyperlinks from Milan and Rome to Germany and Austria “by 2026”.
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A route connecting Milan with Munich is predicted to take 6.5 hours, with stops in Brescia, Verona, Rovereto, Trento, Bolzano and Innsbruck.
Meanwhile a Rome-Munich line taking in Florence, Bologna, Verona, Rovereto, Trento, Bolzano and Innsbruck is predicted to take 8.5 hours.
