Contact

Contact

World Train Map is a one-person hobby project, not a company. There is no support desk — but every message about the data gets read, and corrections are usually made within a day.

Something on the map is wrong

This is the most useful thing you can send. A wrong distance, a service that no longer runs, a line drawn on the wrong rails, a train missing entirely — all of it is welcome, and none of it needs to be polite or formal. The fastest route is an issue on the atlas's GitHub repository, which is also where the open dataset lives.

Fixes are dated and credited by name or handle in the changelog — 454 of them so far. If you would rather not be credited, say so and you won't be.

Can you add a route?

Often, yes: reader suggestions have put more lines on this map than any of my own sweeps have. What makes one easy to act on is small — both ends and the operator or the line's name, and, if you happen to know it, its OpenStreetMap route relation. That last one is the difference between a line I can draw today and a line I have to go looking for.

Two rules decide most requests, and they are worth knowing before you write. Each railway is drawn once. A service running entirely over track another card already draws is turned down however real the train is — Cork to Tralee and the Avant from Granada to Sevilla are both genuine daily services and both fall here, because every metre they run on is already on the map under another name. And every card carries the year its line opened, from a source. A line whose opening year cannot be found waits until it can; the atlas has never shipped a year it could not point at.

Two things this map cannot show yet, so you know before asking. A night train that splits and couples onto another train part-way is drawn as two separate lines, because a route here is one line with two ends. And a corridor carrying four operators shows as one line with one card on it, which is the price of drawing each railway once. Both are open questions rather than oversights, and both are on GitHub if you want to argue with them.

Can I reuse the data?

Yes, and you do not need to ask. All 1516 routes are published as open data — CSV, JSON and GeoJSON, archived with a DOI. The facts are CC BY 4.0, so attribution is the only condition there; geometry traced from OpenStreetMap stays © OpenStreetMap contributors under ODbL. The map itself can also be embedded on any site for free, and there is an MCP server if you want the atlas inside an AI assistant.

Privacy, or anything legal

Write to ceoflightmussy@gmail.com. That address reaches the person responsible for this site; what is recorded and for how long is set out in full on the privacy page. This site carries no ads and no advertising networks, and sells nothing.

Everything else

Questions about a specific journey are better answered by an operator or a journey planner than by me — this atlas publishes approximate route facts, never live times, and cannot sell a ticket. For most of Europe, bahn.de is the one planner worth knowing.

The same person builds three sister maps, if that is what you were looking for: Castle Map, Movie Scene Map and Destinations Map.