The world's railway map

World Train Map: 1562 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of every passenger rail service that runs today: 1,562 train routes across 120 countries so far, each one checked, no disused or freight-only lines. 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. Any two of its stations can be joined on the map: the panel’s From and To fields find the lines between them, where to change and how far it is.

Explore the atlas

• All 1562 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 1009 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 119 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 112 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 131 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 91 countries
• Open dataset every route as CSV, JSON & GeoJSON (facts CC BY 4.0)
• About made by Flightmussy Studio; every fix dated and credited in the changelog
• City to city 670 journey guides: times, changes, operators

Recently corrected

• Seven routes join the map where a reader found towns with daily trains that no route served: the Cotswold Line from Hereford through Worcester and Oxford to London Paddington; Greater Anglia’s West Anglia Main Line from Ely through Cambridge to London Liverpool Street; Great Northern from London King’s Cross through Cambridge and Ely to King’s Lynn; Northern’s Calder Valley line from Blackpool through Preston, Hebden Bridge and Bradford to York; in Victoria, V/Line’s Warrnambool line through Geelong and its Bendigo line through Castlemaine; and in Queensland, the Gold Coast line from Varsity Lakes to Brisbane. 2026-11-08
• SNCB’s Intercity from Ostend to Eupen is now one route, through Bruges, Ghent, the three Brussels stations, Leuven, Liège and Verviers, on to Eupen. 2026-11-08
• Three routes in western Jutland join the map: GoCollective’s trains from Esbjerg through Ribe to Tønder and from Nørre Nebel through Varde to Esbjerg on the Nebelbanen, and Midtjyske Jernbaner’s from Skjern past Ringkøbing to Holstebro. 2026-11-08

Errors get fixed, usually within a day: the changelog.

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

Algeria · Angola · Argentina · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bangladesh · Belarus · Belgium · Bolivia · Bosnia and Herzegovina · Brazil · Bulgaria · Cambodia · Canada · Chile · China · Colombia · Croatia · Czechia · Denmark · Egypt · England · Estonia · Finland · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hong Kong · Hungary · India · Indonesia · Iran · Ireland · Isle of Man · Israel · Italy · Japan · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Laos · Latvia · Liechtenstein · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Madagascar · Malaysia · Mexico · Moldova · Mongolia · Montenegro · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Netherlands · New Zealand · Nigeria · North Macedonia · Northern Ireland · Norway · Pakistan · Peru · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Russia · Saudi Arabia · Scotland · Serbia · Slovakia · Slovenia · South Africa · South Korea · Spain · Sri Lanka · Sweden · Switzerland · Taiwan · Tanzania · Thailand · Tunisia · Türkiye · Turkmenistan · Ukraine · United Kingdom · United States · Uzbekistan · Vietnam · Wales · Zimbabwe