Night trains
Night trains of the world
92 sleeper routes · 56 countries · ≈ 126,700 km of night lines
Open the world railway map →The sleeper is travel's oldest trick: board after dinner, roll through the dark, and step off in a different country before breakfast. This index collects every night train in the TrainRouter atlas — from one-night hops to week-long transcontinental runs — each with its distance, published journey duration, operator, rolling stock and the story of the line.
Night trains by city
- Night trains from Chicago 6 routes · United States
- Night trains from Bangkok 4 routes · Thailand
- Night trains from Brisbane 4 routes · Australia
- Night trains from Moscow 4 routes · Russia
- Night trains from New York 4 routes · United States
- Night trains from Paris 4 routes · France
- Night trains from Stockholm 3 routes · Sweden
- Night trains from Sydney 3 routes · Australia
- Night trains from Tehran 3 routes · Iran
- Night trains from Vienna 3 routes · Austria
- Night trains from Adelaide 2 routes · Australia
- Night trains from Almaty 2 routes · Kazakhstan
- Night trains from Aswan 2 routes · Egypt
- Night trains from Beijing 2 routes · China
- Night trains from Bucharest 2 routes · Romania
- Night trains from Hamburg 2 routes · Germany
- Night trains from Hanoi 2 routes · Vietnam
- Night trains from Helsinki 2 routes · Finland
- Night trains from Karachi 2 routes · Pakistan
- Night trains from London 2 routes · United Kingdom
- Night trains from Miami 2 routes · United States
- Night trains from Mumbai 2 routes · India
- Night trains from New Delhi 2 routes · India
- Night trains from New Orleans 2 routes · United States
- Night trains from Prague 2 routes · Czechia
- Night trains from Pretoria 2 routes · South Africa
- Night trains from Tashkent 2 routes · Uzbekistan
- Night trains from Tbilisi 2 routes · Georgia
- Night trains from Ulaanbaatar 2 routes · Mongolia
- Night trains from Victoria Falls 2 routes · Zimbabwe
- Night trains from Zurich 2 routes · Switzerland
All 92 night trains, A–Z
- Al Atlas Night Tangier → Marrakech · 620 km · Morocco
- Alexandria–Aswan Express Alexandria → Aswan · 1,090 km · Egypt
- Almaty–Tashkent Talgo Almaty → Tashkent · 1,000 km · Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
- Andean Explorer Cusco → Arequipa · 600 km · Peru
- Arctic Circle Train Stockholm → Narvik · 1,470 km · Sweden, Norway
- Arktika Moscow → Murmansk · 1,940 km · Russia
- Ashgabat–Türkmenabat Night Train Ashgabat → Türkmenabat · 560 km · Turkmenistan
- Auto Train Lorton → Sanford · 1,376 km · United States
- Baghdad–Basra Night Train Baghdad → Basra · 550 km · Iraq
- Baikal–Amur Mainline Tayshet → Komsomolsk-on-Amur · 3,800 km · Russia
- Baku–Tbilisi Night Train Baku → Tbilisi · 551 km · Azerbaijan, Georgia
- Bangkok–Vientiane Express Bangkok → Vientiane · 647 km · Thailand, Laos
- Benguela Railway Express Lobito → Luau · 1,344 km · Angola
- Bima Jakarta → Surabaya · 825 km · Indonesia
- Brisbane XPT Sydney → Brisbane · 988 km · Australia
- Caledonian Sleeper London → Fort William · 966 km · United Kingdom
- Cardinal New York → Chicago · 1,844 km · United States
- Chiang Mai Express Bangkok → Chiang Mai · 751 km · Thailand
- City of New Orleans Chicago → New Orleans · 1,500 km · United States
- Cox’s Bazar Express Dhaka → Cox’s Bazar · 551 km · Bangladesh
- Crescent New York → New Orleans · 2,216 km · United States
- Duronto Express Mumbai → Howrah · 1,968 km · India
- Eastern & Oriental Express Singapore → Bangkok · 2,000 km · Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand
- Ekspres Rakyat Timuran Johor Bahru → Tumpat · 725 km · Malaysia
- Empire Builder Chicago → Seattle · 3,550 km · United States
- EN Ister Budapest → Bucharest · 874 km · Hungary, Romania
- Erdenet Railway Ulaanbaatar → Erdenet · 390 km · Mongolia
- EuroNight Stockholm → Hamburg · 1,150 km · Sweden, Denmark, Germany
- European Sleeper Brussels → Prague · 1,200 km · Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czechia
- Expreso del Sur Oruro → Villazón · 590 km · Bolivia
- Floridian Chicago → Miami · 3,340 km · United States
- Great Southern Adelaide → Brisbane · 2,885 km · Australia
- Green Line Express Karachi → Islamabad · 1,515 km · Pakistan
- Hat Yai Special Express Bangkok → Hat Yai · 945 km · Thailand
- Hong Kong–Beijing High-Speed Sleeper Hong Kong → Beijing · 2,439 km · Hong Kong, China
- Howrah Rajdhani New Delhi → Kolkata · 1,447 km · India
- Indian Pacific Sydney → Perth · 4,352 km · Australia
- Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon Paris → Briançon · 860 km · France
- Intercités de Nuit Paris–Nice Paris → Nice · 1,088 km · France
- Island Express Bengaluru → Kanniyakumari · 929 km · India
- İzmir Mavi Treni Ankara → Izmir · 883 km · Türkiye
- Khyber Mail Karachi → Peshawar · 1,732 km · Pakistan
- Kisumu Safari Train Nairobi → Kisumu · 405 km · Kenya
- Kyiv–Warsaw Sleeper Kyiv → Warsaw · 780 km · Ukraine, Poland
- Lake Shore Limited New York → Chicago · 1,543 km · United States
- Lào Cai Sleeper Hanoi → Lao Cai · 296 km · Vietnam
- Maharajas’ Express Delhi → Delhi · 2,400 km · India
- Melbourne XPT Sydney → Melbourne · 960 km · Australia
- Moscow–Kazan Double-Decker Moscow → Kazan · 793 km · Russia
- Mumbai Rajdhani New Delhi → Mumbai · 1,384 km · India
- Night Riviera London → Penzance · 491 km · United Kingdom
- Nightjet Paris → Vienna · 1,200 km · France, Germany, Austria
- Nightjet Vienna → Zurich · 780 km · Austria, Switzerland
- Nightjet Hamburg → Vienna · 1,100 km · Germany, Austria
- Nightjet Munich–Rome Munich → Rome · 1,100 km · Germany, Austria, Italy
- Nightjet Zurich–Amsterdam Zurich → Amsterdam · 1,000 km · Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands
- Nile Valley Sleeper Cairo → Aswan · 879 km · Egypt
- Ocean Montréal → Halifax · 1,346 km · Canada
- Prietenia Chișinău → Bucharest · 450 km · Moldova, Romania
- Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas Tehran → Bandar Abbas · 1,286 km · Iran
- Raja Tehran–Tabriz Tehran → Tabriz · 736 km · Iran
- Red Arrow Moscow → Saint Petersburg · 650 km · Russia
- RegioJet Night Train Prague → Košice · 700 km · Czechia, Slovakia
- Reunification Express Hanoi → Ho Chi Minh City · 1,726 km · Vietnam
- Rovos Rail Pretoria → Victoria Falls · 1,600 km · South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe
- Santa Claus Express Helsinki → Rovaniemi · 900 km · Finland
- Seven Stars in Kyushu Fukuoka → Fukuoka · 1,000 km · Japan
- Shosholoza Meyl Johannesburg → East London · 1,000 km · South Africa
- Silver Meteor New York → Miami · 2,235 km · United States
- SJ Nattåg Stockholm → Åre · 630 km · Sweden
- Southern Xinjiang Railway Urumqi → Kashgar · 1,475 km · China
- Spirit of the Outback Brisbane → Longreach · 1,325 km · Australia
- Sunrise Express Tokyo → Izumo · 953 km · Japan
- Tashkent–Khiva Night Train Tashkent → Khiva · 1,120 km · Uzbekistan
- Tehran–Mashhad Express Tehran → Mashhad · 926 km · Iran
- Texas Eagle Chicago → San Antonio · 2,102 km · United States
- The Blue Train Pretoria → Cape Town · 1,600 km · South Africa
- The Canadian Toronto → Vancouver · 4,466 km · Canada
- The Ghan Adelaide → Darwin · 2,979 km · Australia
- The Inlander Townsville → Mount Isa · 977 km · Australia
- The Westlander Brisbane → Charleville · 777 km · Australia
- Trans-Mongolian Ulan-Ude → Beijing · 2,080 km · Russia, Mongolia, China
- Trans-Siberian Railway Moscow → Vladivostok · 9,289 km · Russia
- Transcamerounais Yaoundé → Ngaoundéré · 622 km · Cameroon
- Tren Patagónico Viedma → Bariloche · 826 km · Argentina
- Tulpar Talgo Almaty → Astana · 1,300 km · Kazakhstan
- Twilight Express Mizukaze Osaka → Shimonoseki · 720 km · Japan
- Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Paris → Venice · 1,270 km · France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy
- Victoria Falls Overnight Bulawayo → Victoria Falls · 472 km · Zimbabwe
- VR Night Train Helsinki → Kolari · 989 km · Finland
- Yerevan–Tbilisi Night Train Yerevan → Tbilisi · 370 km · Armenia, Georgia
- Zamyn-Üüd Express Ulaanbaatar → Zamyn-Üüd · 606 km · Mongolia