The world's railway map

An interactive railway map of the world: 1,247 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 1247 routes the full atlas index, by category

Every route by the numbers one sortable table: distance, time, speed, year, ridership

Fastest train in every country ranked by real average speed, not top speed

Europe train map 741 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…