The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1389 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,389 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 1389 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 863 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

• One line tonight rather than four, and the arithmetic behind that is the useful part. The Joban Line runs 364 kilometres up the Pacific coast from Tokyo to Sendai, inland of the Shinkansen and slower than it, opened at Nippori in January 1889 and complete on 1 April 1905, and its whole middle section reopened in March 2020 after nine years shut behind the Fukushima exclusion zone. It is drawn from its own relation and sits on real track for every metre of its length. Japan has seventy nine other routes on this map and this was not one of them. 2026-08-26
• Four other candidates were measured, sourced and then set aside, each at a different gate, and listing them is more useful than listing what shipped. The Iida Line has a relation that does not connect end to end, so no path exists inside it and drawing one would mean inventing the joins. The Taiwan Coastal Line opened on 11 October 1922 and runs ninety kilometres from Zhunan to Changhua, and no published timetable for it could be found. Hanoi to Dong Dang has exactly one train a day each way and the only journey time on offer is a traveller's guide saying a little over four hours, which is not a number a card can carry. And Beijing to Kowloon, two thousand three hundred kilometres of undrawn main line, has had no through train since 2020. 2026-08-26
• Outside Europe the binding constraint is not the railway and not the geometry. It is that a card quotes a journey time and there is no planner to ask. In Europe the planner answers, names the train and now names the company that runs it, and a candidate goes from a row in a file to a finished card in about ten minutes. Everywhere else each line needs its operator's own timetable found and read, and the honest failure rate of that search is about four in five. That is why tonight is one line, and why the count will keep slowing rather than stopping. 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