You find yourself aboard a night train through the snowy Alps | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are safe and warm aboard a first class sleeping car crossing the Alps, more than a hundred and thirty years ago, on a snowy night in deep January, in the golden age of the sleeping car. A conductor who knows your name, a narrow room of polished mahogany with a washstand that folds away like a magic trick, dinner in the dining car while lit villages slide past far below, a berth made up with heavy blankets, dry snow ticking at the glass, a midnight stop at a mountain station where the lamps glow and nobody hurries, and the long steady rhythm of the rails to rock you down into sleep. The train is on time, nothing goes wrong, and nothing sudden ever happens.You will hear the long steady beat of the rails, the gentle sway of the carriage, the sound changing over bridges and through tunnels, and dry snow ticking at the dark glass all night long.This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly around the 39 minute mark, and then the rhythm of the train carries on in the dark until morning. Black screen friendly.Chapters:0:00 Welcome3:49 The Station at Dusk8:02 The Compartment11:05 The Departure14:05 The Dining Car17:41 The Climb20:52 The Berth23:29 The Language of the Rails27:07 The Midnight Station31:45 The Great Tunnel35:54 Drifting39:46 The train until morningListen with the video on YouTube: add the episode link.New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796Sources: George Behrend, Grand European Expresses: The Story of the Wagons Lits; Christian Wolmar, Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World; the Oxford English Dictionary (berth, a sailor's word the railways borrowed); the Gotthard line and tunnel, opened 1882, the longest tunnel in the world from 1882 until 1906.A real human voice with AI assistance, fully disclosed. No mid roll ads, ever, so nothing wakes you.