@0c1a9324 absolutely! As someone who loves train travel I'll concede that it is extremely exhausting. Night trains would be better for those of us who can rest in that environment, and so are night ferries. Unfortunately, the former don't exist for the most part, and the latter are prohibitively expensive.

If they ever offer ferry ops from Scotland to NL/Germany again I'll probably be a regular. 

 @5548e37e There is the Newcastle to Amsterdam ferry; we're catching that most of the way home.