Paris-Berlin night train will now stop in Hamburg

European Sleeper is set to relaunch the night train between Berlin and Paris on March 27. From the summer, the train will also stop in Hamburg.

European Sleeper reroutes Paris-Berlin night train

From July 13, 2026, the European Sleeper night train connecting Paris, Brussels and Berlin will also stop in Hamburg. The train will stop at Hamburg Harburg station, in the south of the port city.

The additional stop in Hamburg will improve night train connections between western Europe, northern Germany and Scandinavia, the Belgian-Dutch company explained in a press release.

The Paris-Berlin night train route was previously run by the Austrian Federal Railway (ÖBB) Deutsche Bahn and France’s SNCF, but faced the chop when the French government withdrew funding. In November 2025, European Sleeper said it would take over running the route.

Detailed schedule will be published soon

When European Sleeper relaunches the route in late March, trains will leave Paris for Berlin on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and leave Berlin for Paris on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The company said it will announce a more detailed schedule in the coming weeks.

When it was being jointly run by ÖBB, Deutsche Bahn and SNCF, the night train route proved highly popular, running with an average occupancy rate of 70 percent and a peak occupancy rate of 90 percent during the summer. 

Alongside relaunching the Paris-Berlin route, European Sleeper will launch a night train connecting Amsterdam and Milan from June 2026 and is “most likely” to announce a service connecting Amsterdam and Barcelona in 2027.

110.000 passengers travelled on European Sleeper night trains in 2025, a figure which the international company expects to grow to 300.000 in 2026.