You board in Amsterdam at 6:41pm. You wake up in Barcelona. No airport queues, no 4am alarm, no afternoon lost to transit. That is the actual pitch for European sleeper trains — and in 2026, more routes are operating than at any point in the past two decades. The revival is real. Austria’s Nightjet network now connects over 25 city pairs. The European Sleeper launched cross-border services connecting the Netherlands to Spain. Sweden’s Snälltåget runs nightly to Berlin. The Caledonian Sleeper still crosses Scotland every night. If you’ve been waiting for overnight rail to make a comeback on the continent,…