Drink and dance the night away, but hold tight as the carriage lurches to Germany’s Melt! electronic music festival. Will Coldwell gets things going when he boards the wild party train the evening before
The daylight is fading through the vast glass ceiling of Cologne station, and as the 9.39pm departure time for the Melt! train approaches, the platform fills with camping gear, crates of Club Mate and young Germans clinking beer bottles. Right on time, a burgundy sleeper train rolls in to cheers and a burst of confetti: it’s taking us to the electronic music festival held at Ferropolis, an open air museum of industry – complete with dramatic, 30-metre-high pieces of machinery – between Leipzig and Berlin.
I use the word “sleeper” in the loosest sense of the word. With decks set up in the club carriage, and DJs including Dekmantel Soundsystem on board to run them, this is not rail travel for those who like to doze off while reading a book.
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