The world's railway map

World Train Map — 1346 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,346 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 1346 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 822 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

• The Tren Maya was drawn as one line and the railway is a loop, so about two fifths of it was not on this map at all. Palenque up the Gulf side through Campeche and Mérida to Cancún was here; Cancún back down the Caribbean coast through Playa del Carmen, Tulum and Bacalar to Chetumal was not. It is here now, 366 kilometres of it, welded out of the ways Mexican mappers drew and ending ten metres from Chetumal station. The two cards share no track, which is why this is a second card and not a longer first one. Worth saying how it went wrong, because the line that was already drawn was never off the rails: it comes from the relation that maps the Tren Maya's track rather than any train's journey, the relation says so itself in a note, and it branches. Asked for one path between two stations, the tracer found a real one and quietly dropped every branch. The geometry was right and the span was wrong, which is exactly the sort of error a geometry check cannot see. 2026-08-24
• Gijon to Puente de los Fierros, 74 kilometres up the Caudal valley to the foot of the Pajares ramp, drawn from Renfe’s own C-1 relation and checked against the planner at p90 0.1 kilometres on train R 12102. It was the last line over fifty kilometres left on the verified European list, held back since 22 August for want of an opening year, because a card here cannot open in a year nobody published and the rule is not to borrow one from the railway next door. Its own sections publish it: Gijon to Pola de Lena on 23 July 1874, Pola de Lena to Puente de los Fierros on 15 May 1881. So the run became possible in 1881, and the 1884 date that keeps turning up in the sources belongs to the Pajares ramp beyond this card, climbing on towards Leon. The two sections sum to 74.975 kilometres against a drawing of 74.0. 2026-08-24
• Sicily’s Ionian coast was on this map twice. Two cards ran Messina to Siracusa, both Trenitalia, both scenic, both opened in 1871, both drawn whole from the same OpenStreetMap relation, one calling itself the Ionian Coast Line and the other simply Messina–Siracusa. Neither was wrong about the railway; there was just one railway and two of it. They are one card now, keeping the older page so no link breaks, taking the fuller description off the newer one, and carrying 175 kilometres because that is what the drawing measures rather than the 158 the older card claimed. It was found by asking a question this atlas had never asked: which cards are drawn from the same OSM relation. Seventy four relations are shared, and nearly all of that sharing is honest, because a sleeper and a day train and a luxury tourist train can all run over one line and each deserves its own card. This pair was the one where both cards described the same service. 2026-08-24

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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