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 sleepers back since 2016, charted by decade
• The highest railways in the world 53 lines ranked by altitude, up to 5,072 m
• The longest train journeys 104 rides over 1,000 km, up to 9,289 km on the Trans-Siberian
• International train routes 105 cross-border trains linking 59 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
• Mountain railways the rack and cable lines that climb what ordinary trains cannot
• 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 (facts CC BY 4.0)
• About one person’s hobby project; corrections logged and credited
• City to city 670 journey guides: times, changes, operators

Recently corrected

• This site is now World Train Map, at worldtrainmap.com. It was TrainRouter, and that name promised something this has never been. A router plans your journey; it asks where you are, where you are going and when, and hands back a departure. This is an atlas. It draws 1,247 notable passenger routes and tells you what each one is, how far it runs, how long it takes and why it is worth knowing about, and it has never once sold a ticket or read a timetable at you. People arrived expecting a planner and left when they did not find one. The new name is what the thing actually is. Nothing you had is lost: every trainrouter.com address redirects here in a single step and keeps its path, so an old bookmark, an old link in somebody else's article and an old search result all land exactly where they used to, on the same page. That redirect stays up permanently. The map, the data, the route pages and their addresses after the domain are all unchanged, and so is the light or dark setting your browser remembers for this site, which would have been quietly forgotten had the name behind it been tidied up along with everything else. 2026-08-11
• Eleven hundred lines are now drawn from the relation that describes them rather than from a search for them. Until today most "OSM traced" lines here were found by pulling the track inside a corridor and looking for a path across it, which is inference, and inference picks the wrong railway where two run side by side and rounds what it does find until the line sits a couple of hundred metres off the rail it means. A route relation is the other thing entirely: somebody who knows that railway listed the exact ways it uses, in order. The atlas now asks which relation a train belongs to by asking the stations it calls at, because a relation lists the stops it serves and proximity cannot tell a service from track it happens to share. Of 1,247 routes, 647 are answered by one relation covering the whole card and 176 by a chain of them. 1,093 lines were redrawn from those answers and almost none of it is a change of alignment: 1,098 of the candidates were the same railway drawn coarsely, now a median of four metres from OpenStreetMap instead of an approximation. The atlas draws 1,122 of its lines from a named relation, and measures 1,243 of them against real track at 98 per cent agreement. 2026-08-10
• Twenty two routes were deliberately left alone, and it is worth saying why rather than quietly redrawing them. Their relation would move the line more than a kilometre, and that is the signature of a different railway rather than a finer drawing of the same one. Kyiv to Lviv sits 42 km from its candidate and the Roros line 51 km, which is either a badly wrong drawing or a relation for another railway entirely, and nothing here can tell which without somebody reading what the relation is actually called. They keep their current drawing until that is done. A further 424 routes have no relation at all, which is not a failure of the method but a fact about the map: OpenStreetMap has no route relation for much of Africa, Central Asia and South America. 2026-08-10

Errors get fixed, usually within a day: the corrections log.

The 24 most famous train routes

Train routes by country

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