The world's railway map
TrainRouter — 770 train routes on one interactive map
An interactive railway map of the world: 700+ notable train routes across 118 countries. High-speed, classic, night, scenic 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 770 routes the full atlas index, by category
- Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed
- Europe train map 357 routes on one map
- USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
- Night trains 89 sleeper routes, with per-city pages
- The night-train revival 18 sleepers back since 2016, charted by decade
- Scenic train routes the lines you ride for the window seat
- Train routes by country 84 countries
- Open dataset every route as CSV, JSON & GeoJSON (CC BY 4.0)
- About one person’s hobby project; corrections logged and credited
- City to city 574 journey guides: times, changes, operators
Recently corrected
- Helsinki–Oulu updated: the double-deck IC25 (5 h 24) is now the fastest, and the ex-Russia Allegro sets run alongside as Pendolino Plus; the old Sm3 Pendolino entry was stale. 2026-07-18
- Helsinki–Turku no longer claims shoreline views; the Rantarata runs mostly inland despite its name. 2026-07-18
- Helsinki–Kuopio rephrased to the Savo line through the lake district, noting the continuation to Iisalmi and Kajaani. 2026-07-18
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 · Croatia · Czechia · Denmark · Egypt · Estonia · Finland · France · Georgia · Germany · Greece · Hong Kong · Hungary · India · Indonesia · Iran · Ireland · Israel · Italy · Japan · Kazakhstan · Kenya · Laos · Latvia · Lithuania · Luxembourg · Madagascar · Malaysia · Mexico · Moldova · Mongolia · Montenegro · Morocco · Mozambique · Myanmar · Netherlands · New Zealand · Nigeria · North Macedonia · Norway · Pakistan · Peru · Poland · Portugal · Romania · Russia · Saudi Arabia · 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 · Zimbabwe