The world's railway map

TrainRouter — 1211 train routes on one interactive map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,211 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 1211 routes the full atlas index, by category
• Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed
• Europe train map 703 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 52 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 (CC BY 4.0)
• About one person’s hobby project; corrections logged and credited
• City to city 672 journey guides: times, changes, operators

Recently corrected

• The night-train revival page named Paris–Vienna as a service “back after a 14-year gap”. ÖBB withdrew that Nightjet in December 2025, and this atlas has never held it — so the page was crediting the revival with a train nobody can catch. It also described Paris–Berlin as a relit Nightjet, when the Paris–Berlin sleeper in this atlas is European Sleeper’s. Both examples are now taken from the revival list itself rather than written by hand, so the prose cannot outlive the data again. 2026-07-30
• Paris–Nice was drawn through the Morvan. The line wandered off the LGV after Melun and spent 240 km crossing Auxerre, Clamecy and the hills north of Nevers before rejoining at Le Creusot — country the TGV has never touched. It now follows the service the card names, which leaves the high-speed line near Avignon and runs the classic Mediterranean coast railway through Toulon, Saint-Raphaël, Cannes and Antibes. The distance came down with it: 1,088 km was the old pre-LGV route, and the train measures 971. 2026-07-29
• The Pyrenees line out of Toulouse started in the wrong place and stopped short at the far end. It began at Place François Verdier, followed the tramway across the city centre and picked up the alignment of Métro line C, which is still being built, to reach Matabiau; and at the southern end it gave up 4 km short of Latour-de-Carol, in the mountains above Porta. It now starts at Matabiau and ends at Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg. 2026-07-29

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