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Interrail Night Train - App Marked 2 Travel Days, Why?

  • July 8, 2025
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I'm planning a night train journey soon and have a question regarding the Interrail mobile app's behavior. I'm hoping some experienced travelers can help me out!
My journey details are: Departure from Budapest-Keleti (19:10 on July 8th) and arrival at Dresden Hbf (05:53 on July 9th).
From what I understood, for direct overnight trains, only one day should be marked as a travel day. However, the mobile app has marked both July 8th AND July 9th as travel days for this specific journey.
I've attached two screenshots.  The first one shows the full journey preview, and the second highlights a potential change point at Břeclav (though the train number seems to continue as EN 40476).
Is this normal behavior? Has anyone experienced something similar or knows why the app might do this? Do I really need to use two travel days, or could this be an app glitch? I plan to contact Interrail support, but wanted to get some community insights first.
Thanks in advance for your help!

 

 

Best answer by Eurail Community Moderator

UPDATE:

Issue has been solved and the night train is showing direct in our rail planer app. Thank you for the feedback!

Camilo 

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  • rvdborgt
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  • July 8, 2025

These screenshots don't show which travel days have been used. It does show 2 trains, but since they both leave on the same day, only one travel day should be used. The Rail Planner app often shows night trains in 2 parts, but in this case it should not matter.

  1. Could you please go one step back in My Trip and post a screenshot of the journeys of 8 July (and 9 July, if that's there)?
  2. Could you go to My Pass, select your pass and select the latest travel day? What date does it have? If it's 9 July or later, just cancel it by tapping on "Cancel travel day”.

​@Eurail Community Moderator Is this problem with split up night trains going to be fixed anytime soon?

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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  • eurocity101
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  • July 8, 2025

No Idea why it takes two travel days. The second leg in the railplanner starts at 23:57 on July 8th.

Try to deactivate the second leg and add it again manually with all the details.

I'm NOT working for Interrail/Eurail.
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  • rvdborgt
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  • July 8, 2025

No Idea why it takes two travel days. The second leg in the railplanner starts at 23:57 on July 8th.

Try to deactivate the second leg and add it again manually with all the details.

We haven't seen any indication yet that a second travel day has been used.

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
Eurail Community Moderator
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These screenshots don't show which travel days have been used. It does show 2 trains, but since they both leave on the same day, only one travel day should be used. The Rail Planner app often shows night trains in 2 parts, but in this case it should not matter.

  1. Could you please go one step back in My Trip and post a screenshot of the journeys of 8 July (and 9 July, if that's there)?
  2. Could you go to My Pass, select your pass and select the latest travel day? What date does it have? If it's 9 July or later, just cancel it by tapping on "Cancel travel day”.

​@Eurail Community Moderator Is this problem with split up night trains going to be fixed anytime soon?

Dear ​@rvdborgt 

Have you noticed this happening in many cases? If yes, I can look into it and see if I can get more information internally.

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  • rvdborgt
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  • July 9, 2025

​@Eurail Community Moderator Is this problem with split up night trains going to be fixed anytime soon?

Have you noticed this happening in many cases? If yes, I can look into it and see if I can get more information internally.

I've seen it with many night trains to Italy, Croatia, Poland. This summer it seems to occur more frequently than earlier. Often, only one relation will be shown as direct and other direct carriages will be shown with a change. The trains from Milan and Rome to Siracusa/Palermo (3 night trains and 2 day trains) also have this problem.

At the same time, bahn.de usually shows these relations as direct. My suspicion in such cases is that the problem is not in the MERITS data.

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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​@Eurail Community Moderator Is this problem with split up night trains going to be fixed anytime soon?

Have you noticed this happening in many cases? If yes, I can look into it and see if I can get more information internally.

I've seen it with many night trains to Italy, Croatia, Poland. This summer it seems to occur more frequently than earlier. Often, only one relation will be shown as direct and other direct carriages will be shown with a change. The trains from Milan and Rome to Siracusa/Palermo (3 night trains and 2 day trains) also have this problem.

At the same time, bahn.de usually shows these relations as direct. My suspicion in such cases is that the problem is not in the MERITS data.

Thank you! I will escalate this and keep you updated. 

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  • rvdborgt
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  • July 10, 2025

Another example of a split night train posted here:

bahn.de shows it as a direct train.

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
Eurail Community Moderator
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UPDATE:

Issue has been solved and the night train is showing direct in our rail planer app. Thank you for the feedback!

Camilo 

Please note that we can't reply to private messages at the moment. Thanks for your understanding. Do feel free to tag us with any questions or updates!
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  • rvdborgt
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  • August 7, 2025

UPDATE:

Issue has been solved and the night train is showing direct in our rail planer app. Thank you for the feedback!

For Budapest-Dresden-Berlin this has indeed been solved.

However, there are still a lot of other night trains that are not shown as direct. More examples:

  • Budapest-Warsaw
  • Amsterdam-Innsbruck
  • Milan-Palermo

(Checked for today)

I think you should either verify all night trains and through carriages, or (better) look what the root cause is, so this problem will not keep occurring.

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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  • rvdborgt
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  • September 4, 2025

​@Eurail Community Moderator 

Any progress on the split trains issue? This is an issue that pops up frequently here in various FB groups, see e.g.:
 

 

Please ask questions in the community and not via a private message. That's the quickest way to get a response. I don't work for Eurail/Interrail.
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Hi ​@rvdborgt, we are still waiting for our team answer about those routes you mentioned. It's already reported. Thanks for the letting us know!

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UPDATE:

Fixed:

  • Amsterdam – Innsbruck / Munich (NJ 421)

  • Krakow – Budapest (EN 407)

  • Milano – Palermo (IC Notte 1963)

Still pending:

  • Budapest – Warsaw (EN 476)

Thank you for your patience!

Camilo

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