The world's railway map

TrainRouter — 1216 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,216 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 1216 routes the full atlas index, by category
• Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed
• Europe train map 708 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 108 sleeper routes, with per-city pages
• The night-train revival 23 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 105 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 103 cross-border trains linking 58 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
• Funicular railways the world's steepest, oldest and busiest cable inclines
• 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

• Dublin–Waterford trains call at Kilkenny by running up a spur to MacDonagh station and reversing back out to the Lavistown junctions, and the map drew the junction triangle without the side trip. The spur is now drawn both ways, as the train runs it, and the same pass added the short reversals the map had skipped at Killarney, where trains back out through the headshunt, and at Limerick Junction. The Waterford card also carried 158 km and 1 h 55 min; measured along the rails as the train actually runs them the route is 179 km, and the fastest train in the current timetable takes 2 h 10 min. 2026-08-01
• The Limerick–Ballybrophy line joins the atlas: the Nenagh branch, built in stages from 1857 and through when the Birdhill–Nenagh gap closed in June 1864. Two trains a day each way, about 1 h 45 min over 92 km, drawn from the service’s own published shape and verified against the live timetable. 2026-08-01
• Four routes joined the atlas the day locals asked for them on the OpenStreetMap forum. Thessaloniki–Florina, on the 1894 Salonika–Monastir line, timetable-verified as a direct three-hour run. Sevilla–Huelva, the 1880 ore line to the Atlantic, with its direct Media Distancia and Intercity trains. The Ballina branch, half an hour down the Moy valley to Manulla Junction. And Limerick–Waterford, three trains a day each way across the Suir valley with its reversal at Limerick Junction. Each was traced from OSM rail geometry through its real stations. 2026-08-01

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