The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1363 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,363 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 1363 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 839 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 116 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 117 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
• 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

• Four more, and two of them are trunk railways this atlas had somehow never drawn. Turin to Genoa is 165 kilometres over the Apennines through Asti, Alessandria and Novi Ligure, five years of tunnelling that opened in December 1853, and the Giovi tunnel at its summit was the longest in the world when it was bored. Domodossola to Milan is 122 kilometres down the Toce and along the west shore of Lake Maggiore by Stresa and Arona, the Italian approach to the Simplon, reached in 1888. Beside them, two quieter lines: Manresa to Lleida, 117 kilometres over the Segarra plateau by Calaf and Cervera, where the first trains ran in 1860 while the coastal route through Valls took the traffic; and Krefeld to Kleve, 66 kilometres down the Rhine's quiet left bank by Kevelaer and Goch, opened on 1 March 1863. All four are on real track for at least 98.8 per cent of their length, three of them for all of it. 2026-08-26
• The checker corrected two of today's four cards before they shipped, and it is the same correction both times: the card had the wrong train. Turin to Genoa was written at one hour fifty five off an Intercity, and the fastest direct run in the timetable is a hundred and one minutes on a Regionale Veloce, so the card says one hour forty one and names the train that actually earns it. Domodossola to Milan came down from one hour forty two to one hour thirty three the same way. A card here quotes the fastest scheduled journey, and the first draft of a card usually quotes whichever train the planner happened to show first. 2026-08-26
• The count of wrong opening dates is now ten out of fourteen, and one of today's rejects shows why the check has to be the line's own article rather than the item's label. Wikidata's Ligne de Saint-Germain-des-Fossés à Darsac looked like a clean match for a direct Clermont-Ferrand to Le Puy-en-Velay train, right length, right region, right era. Reading the article, that line runs through Vichy, Thiers, Ambert and La Chaise-Dieu, and the train runs through Issoire, Brioude and Arvant. They are different railways that happen to end near each other. Two more were dropped for the same class of mismatch: the Nahe valley relation turns out to describe a 61 kilometre regional service rather than the line, and the only direct Gothenburg to Skövde train runs the main line this atlas already draws rather than the Västergötland railway the candidate named. 2026-08-26

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

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 · 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