🇬🇧 Operator
Train routes operated by Belmond
3 routes · luxury 3
Belmond runs 3 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 4,270 km of railway across 8 countries. The longest is the Eastern & Oriental Express at 2,000 km; the fastest is the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1982. 2 of its routes cross an international border.
The company itself dates to 1976, filed on Wikidata as a public company. What this page says about the company comes from Belmond's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q4045977 ↗
Open the world railway map →- Routes here
- 3
- Total length
- 4,270 km
- Oldest line here
- 1982
- Company founded
- 1976
- Type
- public company
- Countries
- Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom
- Fastest
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express · 160 km/h
- Longest
- Eastern & Oriental Express · 2,000 km
Luxury (3)
- Eastern & Oriental Express
Cream-and-green carriages gliding past rubber plantations: colonial-era glamour from the Lion City to Siam.
Wikipedia ↗ - Venice Simplon-Orient-Express
Belmond’s restored Art Deco sleepers of the 1920s–30s: black tie encouraged as the Alps slide past the champagne bar.
Wikipedia ↗ - Belmond Royal Scotsman
Just 40 guests aboard mahogany-panelled Pullmans that cross the Forth Bridge outbound and stable each night in Highland sidings.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Belmond run?
3 of the routes in this atlas are Belmond services, covering 4,270 km across 8 countries (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, United Kingdom). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Belmond train?
The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, Paris to Venice, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 21 h over 1,270 km.
Does Belmond run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 3 Belmond routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Belmond founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1976, and files it as a public company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1982 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Belmond runs in
- 🇫🇷 Train routes in France 103 routes
- 🇬🇧 Train routes in United Kingdom 75 routes
- 🇨🇭 Train routes in Switzerland 70 routes
- 🇮🇹 Train routes in Italy 62 routes
- 🇦🇹 Train routes in Austria 48 routes
- 🇲🇾 Train routes in Malaysia 9 routes
- 🇹🇭 Train routes in Thailand 8 routes
Other operators in United Kingdom
- Transport for Wales 14 routes
- ScotRail 7 routes
- Great Western Railway 5 routes
- Northern 5 routes
- Avanti West Coast 4 routes
- Eurostar 4 routes
- East Midlands Railway 3 routes
- Southeastern 3 routes