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Night trains from Budapest

2 sleeper routes · Hungary

2 night trains serve Budapest in the TrainRouter atlas, with sleeper routes to Bucharest. The longest is the EN Ister at 874 km (≈ 16 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1883. Board in the evening, wake up 874 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.

EN Ister

Budapest → Bucharest · 874 km · ≈ 16 h · MÁV · CFR · MÁV / CFR sleeper

Retraces the original 1883 Orient Express alignment through Transylvania’s castles and the Carpathian passes.

Ister

Budapest → Bucharest · 873 km · ≈ 15 h 30 min · MÁV-START · CFR Călători · CFR sleepers · couchettes

The Ister leaves Budapest at dusk, crosses the Hungarian plain to Arad and climbs through Transylvania in the dark, dropping out of the Carpathians at Brașov for a mid-morning Bucharest arrival.

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