I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train

Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by seszett on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:37AM (#39601646)

I don't know if you're British since this seems to echo the weird comments at the beginning of the article, dissing trains for apparently no particular reason.

But no, he's likely been sleeping in beds since he's first class in night trains, in 3-bed compartments that generally have showers as far as I know. The lights can obviously be turned off.

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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by NeoTar on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:40AM (#39601676)

From what I can see it just says he sleeps on the 'night trains' which are any trains that operate overnight.

If you restricted yourself to sleepers, there is quite a broad network across Germany, but still not comprehensive (https://assets.static-bahn.de/dam/jcr:5e469db8-ee74-46b0-a27...)

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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by bradyat on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:49AM (#39601751)

From his blog: "I spent many nights trying to figure out the best way to sleep in first class. In the end, sleeping on an air mattress under the seats proved to be a good idea."

https://leben-im-zug.de/meiner-erster-monat-mit-der-bahncard...

So I guess he really is just sleeping in the regular compartment rather than a sleeper berth.

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Re:I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train by moooo99 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:30AM (#39602058)

Yes. DB doesn’t operate any sleeper cars. All sleepers operating in Germany are by international corporations (ÖBB, etc). But they aren’t covered by a DB BahnCard 100.

The trains he mentions are just regular ICEs that operate for some overnight trips.

I can imagine how this can be reasonably comfortable in an older ICE1 in first class, but i wouldn’t want to sleep on ICE4 seats for extended periods of time

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