The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1250 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,250 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 1250 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 743 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 108 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 104 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 105 cross-border trains linking 59 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
• 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

• This site is now World Train Map, at worldtrainmap.com. It was TrainRouter, and that name promised something this has never been. A router plans your journey; it asks where you are, where you are going and when, and hands back a departure. This is an atlas. It draws 1,247 notable passenger routes and tells you what each one is, how far it runs, how long it takes and why it is worth knowing about, and it has never once sold a ticket or read a timetable at you. People arrived expecting a planner and left when they did not find one. The new name is what the thing actually is. Nothing you had is lost: every trainrouter.com address redirects here in a single step and keeps its path, so an old bookmark, an old link in somebody else's article and an old search result all land exactly where they used to, on the same page. That redirect stays up permanently. The map, the data, the route pages and their addresses after the domain are all unchanged, and so is the light or dark setting your browser remembers for this site, which would have been quietly forgotten had the name behind it been tidied up along with everything else. 2026-08-11
• The spur up to Kilkenny went missing again, and what is fixed here is the reason it could go missing twice. Dublin to Waterford trains run up to MacDonagh station and reverse back out to the Lavistown junctions; that was drawn on 1 August and gone by the 8th, when 984 lines were redrawn from the OpenStreetMap relation that describes them. A relation describes a RAILWAY. A spur describes what a TRAIN does on it, and redrawing from the relation throws the second fact away. Nothing here noticed, because the four questions this atlas asks of a drawing are its length, its longest straight, the countries it crosses and where its ends sit, and a seven kilometre detour on a hundred and seventy kilometre line answers all four exactly as it does when it is drawn. There is a fifth question now. Every route that links a line article records the stations that article names and this line actually reaches, 6,632 of them across 457 routes, and the build fails if a redraw moves a line off one of them. The spur is back, and the next sweep cannot quietly undo this one. 2026-08-11
• The same question, asked of every line in the atlas, found two more that nobody had reported. Nanning to Guangzhou no longer reached Nanning, which is its own terminus, and Madrid to San Sebastián had stopped calling at Medina del Campo, fifteen kilometres off the line it belongs on. Both are the 8 August redraw again, and both are drawn back the way they were drawn when they worked. Thirty nine detours were dropped that day and only these three were station calls: the rest were lines correctly moved off a railway their trains do not use, the pre sweep Paris to Marseille among them, which ran down the classic line past four RER stops the TGV has never called at. What separates the two is whether the lost piece left the line and came back, or simply went somewhere else. One thing was paid for this: three cards can no longer say they were drawn node for node from one relation, because they are now that relation plus a spur, and a provenance claim that stopped being exactly true is dropped rather than left standing. 2026-08-11

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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