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 721 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 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 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

• The Channel had grown a knot at Dover. All three Eurostars were drawn through Dover town and into the sea from there. The real trains enter the tunnel at Folkestone, twelve kilometres west, and the Paris line also strayed up to 96 km from its railway inside France. All three are redrawn. Paris follows its operator’s own shape, and Brussels and Amsterdam share its exact points as far as Lille. The hand drawn Dover Javelin was retraced too. The North Kent Javelin returns as its own card, because moving Margate to the Canterbury line had silently undrawn the Faversham corridor. Both Javelin paths to Margate now exist, as they do in the timetable. 2026-08-02
• The Brenner railway had been traced at three kilometre strides, which reads as a polygon in the Adige valley. It now follows the Railjet’s own published shape at eighteen points per kilometre, and the Venice Simplon Orient Express beside it shares those exact points for 252 km over the pass. The same sweep retraced the Dover and North Kent Javelins, the Nanyuki Safari Train, the Bangkok to Aranyaprathet line, the Shatabdi to Amritsar and the Kuranda Scenic Railway onto real track. The Nanyuki card had also said 177 km for a 237 km line. Two routes were checked and kept as they were: the Aoniyoshi, because the tracer found the wrong branch, and Cass, because its mountain spur is not yet mapped. Under it all sat one more file fault: 210 waypoint rows separated by a bare carriage return with no newline, invisible to every line based tool. All mended. 2026-08-02
• On the newest Spanish reports: the doubled Granada to Antequera lines were already gone in the build that went live minutes after the report, because the old conventional leg left with the Mr Henderson change. And Madrid to Málaga never disappeared. The card and its 511 km line are intact and live. What looked like an absence was a deploy caught mid flight. 2026-08-02

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