1. She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading.

2. Graham tossed the paperback on to the opposite couchette and made his way to the dining car.

3. If you are lucky enough to get a couchette, you spend half the night staring at the small blue light in the ceiling, or fumbling to find your ticket for inspection.

4. If you are lucky enough to get a couchette , you spend half the night staring at the swore blue light in the ceiling.

5. It is a moment before the long hours in cramped quarters, which makes up spending a night in a couchette.

6. Andy Bull gets to grips with power cables, security guards, nail - biting finishes - and couchette companions.

7. Nevertheless that night he went to the theatre in Berlin, took a train to Munich and slept well in his couchette.