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fivecountrieson Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence

Did the same trip, just the other way, in 2010. Clean, comfortable, cheap (comparing to night trains in Central Europe). Couldn't get much sleep though, because as the only European in the car, so many people wanted to chat with me. And we were all very slow in looking up in the dictionary.

fivecountrieson Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence

No. Before 1989 the train connecting Berlin-Prague-Bratislava-Budapest would not cross the iron curtain.

The only thing that changed a few years ago is Prague. Changed for SW Poland.

fivecountrieson Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence

DE, PL, CZ, SK, HU

It does not run through Prague. It runs through Poland and then crosses CZ from Ostrava to Břeclav. Then SK (Kúty, Bratislava, Štúrovo) and then HU.

Actually in central Europe the night trains usually join and split at some stations, so in Ostrava two trains join: from Berlin and from Warsaw. Then in Břeclav they split again (two halves from each half), one goes to Vienna, another to Budapest. So at the beginning there are two parts on each train and you have to choose the right one. But since the places have to be reserved, you cannot get on the wrong half.