The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1469 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,469 notable train routes across 120 countries. High-speed, classic, night, scenic, heritage and luxury lines, with the facts behind every one.

From the Glacier Express, the Bernina Express and the Trans-Siberian to the Shinkansen, the Eurostar and the California Zephyr: every route is drawn on a fullscreen world map with its distance, fastest journey time, top speed, operator, rolling stock and the year the line opened. Free, no signup. The interactive map needs JavaScript; the index below reaches the same atlas as static pages.

Explore the atlas

• All 1469 routes the full atlas index, by category
• Every route by the numbers one sortable table: distance, time, speed, year, ridership
• Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed
• Europe train map 941 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 117 sleeper routes, with per-city pages
• The night-train revival 22 sleepers back since 2016, charted by decade
• The highest railways in the world 53 lines ranked by altitude, up to 5,072 m
• The longest train journeys 110 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 127 cross-border trains linking 62 countries
• Train vs plane door-to-door times & CO₂e on 109 European city pairs
• Scenic train routes the lines you ride for the window seat
• Heritage & museum railways preserved steam lines and vintage excursions, by country
• Mountain railways the rack and cable lines that climb what ordinary trains cannot
• The oldest railways still running every line that opened before 1900 and still carries passengers
• Luxury train routes the trains you ride for the train itself
• Train routes by country 90 countries
• Open dataset every route as CSV, JSON & GeoJSON (facts CC BY 4.0)
• About one person’s hobby project; corrections logged and credited
• City to city 670 journey guides: times, changes, operators

Recently corrected

• Thirteen railways that carry a scheduled train and had no line drawn on them joined the map, and every one of them had been waiting on a single missing fact. A sweep measures, country by country, which railways carry a train the planner will confirm and have no atlas line within a kilometre and a half of them; it found 129 such lines across 24 countries, every one of them drawable end to end, and every one of them stopped at the same place, because a card needs the year its line opened and this atlas has never shipped a year it could not source. The years here were read out of each line’s own article in its own language, and where a route is made of sections the year is the one the last section opened, because that is when the journey first became possible. Forty two of the 129 could be dated today, and the thirteen described next came first. All forty two are drawn from their own OpenStreetMap relations, all forty two sit on real railway for every metre, and the furthest any of them strays from the track a surveyor would find is nine metres. 2026-09-05
• The longest is the way into Galicia. From Monforte de Lemos a Renfe regional runs 184 km through Sarria and Lugo to A Coruña, on what was for seventy four years the only railway between Galicia and the meseta. It was built from both ends and finished in the middle: Lugo to A Coruña opened on 10 October 1875, the stretch that carries Monforte on 4 September 1883, and Alfonso XII came for the ceremony a few days before that. The second Spanish line is the climb out of the Duero basin into the Sanabria mountains, 238 km from Valladolid through Medina del Campo and Zamora to Puebla de Sanabria, on a railway that took thirty years to build, some of it by Republican prisoners at forced labour, and whose Zamora to Puebla section opened on 23 September 1952. In Portugal the Intercidades from Évora runs 89 km down to Beja over two railways of the 1860s that meet at Casa Branca, the branch up to Évora opened on 14 September 1863 and the main line into Beja on 15 February 1864. 2026-09-05
• Five more are Habsburg lines and their successors. Děčín to Liberec, 90 km, was laid in four pieces by four companies between 1869 and 1900, and the last of them climbs to Liberec through five tunnels and over the thirty metre viaduct at Novina, opened on 16 September 1900. Číčenice to Nové Údolí runs 65 km up into the Bohemian Forest: Prachatice was reached in 1893, Volary in 1899 and the Bavarian border in 1910, through trains to Passau stopped in 1951, and the rails beyond Nové Údolí are now a museum line pushed by hand. Hatvan to Somoskőújfalu, 64 km, exists because of the coal at Salgótarján, and opened to the pits on 9 May 1867 and on to the frontier in 1871. Baja to Kiskunhalas, 76 km, is two branch lines that Trianon cut in half and Hungary joined into one, the Baja end from 8 January 1885 and the Kiskunhalas end from 31 October 1903. Békéscsaba to Salonta, 49 km, is the border crossing that the Alföld to Fiume company opened on 14 September 1871 before going broke; Trianon cut it in two as well, but nobody lifted the rails and a railcar still works across. 2026-09-05

Errors get fixed, usually within a day: the corrections log.

The 24 most famous train routes

• Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow → Vladivostok
• Glacier Express Zermatt → St. Moritz
• Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice
• Bernina Express Chur → Tirano
• Tokaido Shinkansen Tokyo → Osaka
• The Ghan Adelaide → Darwin
• Rocky Mountaineer Vancouver → Banff
• Flåmsbana Myrdal → Flåm
• Cusco–Machu Picchu Cusco → Machu Picchu
• Trans-Mongolian Ulaanbaatar → Beijing
• Darjeeling Toy Train New Jalpaiguri → Darjeeling
• California Zephyr Chicago → San Francisco
• The Jacobite Fort William → Mallaig
• Qinghai–Tibet Railway Xining → Lhasa
• Rovos Rail Pretoria → Victoria Falls
• The Blue Train Pretoria → Cape Town
• Jungfraubahn Grindelwald → Jungfraujoch
• Eastern & Oriental Express Singapore → Bangkok
• Eurostar London → Paris
• The Canadian Toronto → Vancouver
• Indian Pacific Sydney → Perth
• Maeklong Railway Bangkok → Samut Songkhram
• El Chepe Los Mochis → Chihuahua
• West Highland Line Glasgow → Mallaig

Train routes by country

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