The world's railway map

TrainRouter — 1229 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,229 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 1229 routes the full atlas index, by category
• Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed
• Europe train map 723 routes on one map
• USA train map Amtrak long-distance lines & scenic railroads
• Night trains 107 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 104 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 102 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
• Mountain railways the rack and cable lines that climb what ordinary trains cannot
• 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 funicular shelf became the Mountain shelf, and the rack railways moved onto it. The old category was mechanically correct and practically useless: it held 53 cable-hauled inclines, most of them a few hundred metres of city hillside, while the Jungfraubahn, Pilatus, Snowdon, Pikes Peak, the Gornergrat and the Nilgiri sat filed under Scenic or Heritage as though they were ordinary railways that happened to be pretty. They are not. A rack railway and a funicular are two answers to one question, how do you get a train up a slope too steep for a wheel to grip, and a visitor pointing at Snowdon and at Stoos means the same thing by both. So 31 rack and cog lines joined the 53 cable ones under Mountain. The test is mechanical rather than scenic: rack or cable must be how the line makes its climb. A steep adhesion railway is still an ordinary railway, so the Bernina keeps its 7 per cent and its Scenic label with no rack at all, and a valley transport line with a short rack assist, the Mont-Blanc Express and the Berner Oberland-Bahn, stays where it was. Three lines whose rack was lifted decades ago, the Rübelandbahn, the Erzbergbahn and the Da Lat stub, are judged on what they run on now and stayed put. Aerial cableways remain out entirely; a gondola is not a railway. The category is also lit by default now, which the funiculars never were, because hiding a shelf of city inclines cost nothing and hiding the Jungfraubahn would not. The hub moved from /funicular-railways/ to /mountain-railways/ and the old address forwards. 2026-08-04
• Every route now publishes the speed it actually keeps. Distance divided by the fastest scheduled time is the number that decides how long a day takes, and it is typically 60 to 80 per cent of the headline figure a train is certified for: the Tokaido Shinkansen is a 285 km/h train that averages 219, and the Trans-Siberian averages 55 over seven days. 1,205 of the 1,229 routes carry it, on the card and in the facts on every route page. The other 24 refuse it on purpose rather than print a number that lies. A hotel train stables overnight and spends days off the rails, so the Palace on Wheels would read 12 km/h and Rail Cruise Haerang 21, describing an itinerary rather than a journey; a round trip figure covers twice the drawn line. Scheduled trains that simply run for days, the Canadian and Vivek Express among them, are never not under way, so they keep theirs. Checked before shipping: not one published average exceeds its own route’s top speed. 2026-08-04
• Photographs are cropped less and aimed better. The card strip and the route page hero were both cut to a fixed shape that suited a desktop window, so on a phone, which is the taller screen, they threw away most of the picture: the hero is now 4:3 on a narrow screen instead of 16:9, the list thumbnails 3:2, and the card strip grows with the card rather than staying 96 pixels tall. Where a photo has no measured focus point the crop now falls slightly low instead of dead centre, because the centre of a level railway photograph is usually sky. And six Indian routes had pictures that showed no train and no railway at all: the Konkan Railway was a patch of dry scrub, the Maharajas’ Express an empty desert, and the Vivek and Grand Trunk expresses were photographs of their own name boards. All six now show the train or the line, among them the toy train in the forest at Matheran and a WAP-7 coming out of the fog with the Grand Trunk behind it. 2026-08-04

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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