# TrainRouter

> An interactive railway map of the world: 1,232 notable train routes across 120 countries. High-speed, classic, night, scenic, heritage and luxury lines, with the facts behind every one. Plus 670 European city-to-city train journey guides. Free, no signup.

Every content page is prerendered static HTML — no JavaScript required to read it. Route facts (distance, fastest journey time, top speed, operator, opening year) are approximate published values; city-pair journey times are sampled from public European schedule data. The site does not sell tickets or show live timetables.

## Route atlas
- [All 1232 train routes](https://trainrouter.com/routes/): the full index — high-speed, classic, night, scenic and luxury
- [The fastest train in every country](https://trainrouter.com/fastest-trains/): 104 countries ranked by realized average speed (route length ÷ fastest journey) vs headline top speed — a data story, open data
- [The highest railways in the world](https://trainrouter.com/highest-railways/): 53 lines ranked by the altitude their track reaches, up to 5,072 m at the Tanggula Pass — a data story, open data
- [The longest train journeys in the world](https://trainrouter.com/longest-train-journeys/): 104 rides over 1,000 km ranked by distance, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian — a data story, open data
- [International train routes of the world](https://trainrouter.com/international-train-routes/): 103 cross-border trains linking 58 countries, ranked by borders crossed (Germany is the most connected, in 27) — a data story, open data
- [Train vs plane in Europe](https://trainrouter.com/train-vs-plane/): door-to-door times and CO₂e on 109 city pairs — the train is faster on 29 (27%) and emits ~3× less CO₂e even on conservative DESNZ 2025 factors — a data story, open data
- [Europe train map](https://trainrouter.com/europe-train-map/): 724 routes across the continent
- [USA train map](https://trainrouter.com/usa-train-map/): Amtrak long-distance routes and scenic railroads
- [Night trains](https://trainrouter.com/night-trains/): 108 sleeper routes worldwide, with per-city indexes
- [The night-train revival](https://trainrouter.com/night-train-revival/): 22 sleeper routes launched or revived since 2016 (14 in the 2010s, 14 in the 2020s) — a data story, open data
- [Scenic train routes](https://trainrouter.com/scenic-train-routes/): the world's most beautiful railway journeys, by country
- [Heritage railways](https://trainrouter.com/heritage-railways/): museum, preserved and steam-excursion lines worldwide, by country
- [Funicular railways](https://trainrouter.com/funicular-railways/): the world's notable cable-hauled inclines, by country
- [Luxury train routes](https://trainrouter.com/luxury-train-routes/): the world's great luxury trains — Pullmans, palace trains and rail cruises, by country
- [Train routes by country](https://trainrouter.com/train-routes/): 90 country pages

## Journey guides
- [European trains, city to city](https://trainrouter.com/trains/): 670 city pairs — typical journey times, direct-train availability, operators

## Machine access
- [Sitemap](https://trainrouter.com/sitemap.xml): every page on the site
- [MCP server](https://trainrouter.com/mcp-server/): connect the atlas to Claude or any MCP client — remote endpoint https://trainrouter.com/mcp (streamable HTTP, no auth)
- [Open dataset](https://trainrouter.com/dataset/): the atlas as CSV, JSON and GeoJSON, CC BY 4.0 — also on GitHub, Kaggle and Hugging Face; archived at DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21322030