The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1516 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of every passenger rail service that runs today: 1,516 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.

Explore the atlas

• All 1516 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 972 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 129 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

• Eighty-eight more routes are now drawn from OpenStreetMap’s own route relations, node for node: 1,381 of the 1,516, and 1,094 of them from end to end. Twenty-three routes that a relation drew for only part of their length are now covered further, 20,805 km of line in all. The relations were found in new ways that do not depend on the language a relation is named in: the trains whose stops lie along the route, anywhere on the planet; the route’s own Wikidata item; the railway lines Wikidata says its stations are on; and the lines whose track runs under it. Many are named in their own country’s script, such as Железопътна линия 16 for Septemvri to Dobrinishte. Every new drawing moved its line by less than a kilometre and passed the same checks as before. Where it would have left a station the train calls at, as at Kilkenny, Huesca and Valencia, or where the timetable no longer confirmed it, the old line was kept. Each route’s page names the relations it is drawn from. 2026-10-07
• Google Analytics is gone from the site. Since 8 September every page had loaded it from Google; now no page does, nothing about a visit is sent to Google, and the only counting left is this site’s own, which is anonymous and stores nothing on your device. The cookies Google Analytics set are read by nobody now, and the map deletes them the next time it opens. The privacy notice says so, and the site’s security policy no longer lets a page reach Google’s addresses at all. 2026-10-07
• On the About page, Featured in and the thanks to the two forums whose members have corrected the map the most now come at the end of the page, after the account of how the map is made and checked, instead of at the top. 2026-10-07

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