For the successor company, see City Night Line

CityNightLine AG (timetable and platform sign abbreviation: CNL) was a Swiss night train

Sleeping car

The sleeping car or sleeper is a railway/railroad passenger car that can accommodate all its passengers in beds of one kind or another, primarily for the purpose of making nighttime travel more restful. The first such cars saw sporadic use on American railroads in the 1830s and could be configured...

 service. CNL had right of passage grants in Germany

Germany

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, the Netherlands, Austria

Austria

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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 and Denmark

Denmark

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. It served stations in Belgium

Belgium

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, France

France

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, Italy

Italy

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 and the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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. CityNightLine was acquired by Deutsche Bahn AG in 2007 and merged with DB NachtZug

DB NachtZug

City Night Line is a category of night trains in Europe. They were originally operated by the former railway company CityNightLine AG...

 to form the "City Night Line" which presently offers night services in former CityNightLine and NachtZug territories, of which includes the majority of CityNightLine's operations at the time of the merger.
CityNightLine AG was a joint project/creation undertaken by the Deutsche Bahn (DB)

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

 (German Federal Railways), the Austrian Federal Railways

ÖBB

The Austrian Federal Railways is the national railway system of Austria, and the administrators of Liechtenstein's railways...

 (ÖBB) and the Swiss Federal Railways

SBB-CFF-FFS

Swiss Federal Railways and SFR are not in official use) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern. Formerly a government institution, it is since 1999 a special stock corporation with all shares held by the Swiss Confederation or the Swiss cantons...

 (SBB-CFF-FFS).