TrainRouter

Open data

The railway atlas, as open data

744 notable train routes across 118 countries — geometry plus facts, free to use under CC BY 4.0.

Open the interactive railway map →

Every route on the interactive map is also published as a plain, reusable dataset: the shape of each line plus its distance, fastest scheduled journey time, service top speed, operator, rolling stock, the year it opened and approximate annual ridership. It's the data behind the Glacier Express, the Trans-Siberian, the Shinkansen and 741 more — released so you can map, analyse or build on it. Figures are approximate published values, not live timetables.

Routes
744
Countries
118
Line mapped
≈ 366,500 km
Licence
CC BY 4.0

Download

Or take the whole repository — github.com/Flightmussy/trainrouter-atlas — also mirrored on Kaggle and Hugging Face, and archived on Zenodo at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21322030.

What's in each record

name, from, to
route/service name and terminus cities
category
high-speed · classic · night · scenic
distance_km, top_speed_kmh, duration
length, service top speed, fastest journey time
operator, train
operating company and rolling stock
opened, pax_per_year
year in service, approximate annual ridership
countries / countries_iso
countries served, in travel order
geometry (GeoJSON)
hand-traced LineString of lon/lat waypoints

How to cite

TrainRouter Atlas (2026). 744 world train routes [Data set]. CC BY 4.0. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21322030

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