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# World Train Map
> An interactive railway map of every passenger rail service that runs today: 1,516 train routes across 120 countries so far, each one checked, no disused or freight-only lines. 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 is 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.
The whole atlas is also published in German under https://worldtrainmap.com/de/: every page below has a German twin at the same path with a /de prefix, and the two are paired with hreflang. The German route hooks and stories are machine-translated from this site's own English copy and have not been read by a native speaker; route and place NAMES are read from German Wikipedia and Wikidata rather than translated. Two pages are English only and have no German twin: /privacy/ and /corrections/.
And in Japanese under https://worldtrainmap.com/ja/, the same way: every page below has a Japanese twin at the same path with a /ja prefix, paired with hreflang. Route and place NAMES are read from Japanese Wikipedia and Wikidata rather than translated; a route text with no Japanese version is shown in English and marked lang="en". /privacy/ and /corrections/ are English only.
## Route atlas
- [All 1516 train routes](https://worldtrainmap.com/routes/): the full index of high-speed, classic, night, scenic and luxury routes
- [The fastest train in every country](https://worldtrainmap.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://worldtrainmap.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://worldtrainmap.com/longest-train-journeys/): 110 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://worldtrainmap.com/international-train-routes/): 129 cross-border trains linking 62 countries, ranked by borders crossed (Germany is the most connected, in 35); a data story, open data
- [Train vs plane in Europe](https://worldtrainmap.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://worldtrainmap.com/europe-train-map/): 972 routes across the continent
- [USA train map](https://worldtrainmap.com/usa-train-map/): Amtrak long-distance routes and scenic railroads
- [Night trains](https://worldtrainmap.com/night-trains/): 117 sleeper routes worldwide, with per-city indexes
- [The night-train revival](https://worldtrainmap.com/night-train-revival/): 22 sleeper routes launched or revived since 2016 (14 of them in the 2020s); a data story, open data
- [Scenic train routes](https://worldtrainmap.com/scenic-train-routes/): the world's most beautiful railway journeys, by country
- [Heritage railways](https://worldtrainmap.com/heritage-railways/): museum, preserved and steam-excursion lines worldwide, by country
- [Mountain railways](https://worldtrainmap.com/mountain-railways/): the world's notable rack and cable climbing lines, by country
- [Luxury train routes](https://worldtrainmap.com/luxury-train-routes/): the world's great luxury trains: Pullmans, palace trains and rail cruises, by country
- [Train routes by country](https://worldtrainmap.com/train-routes/): 91 country pages
- [Train operators](https://worldtrainmap.com/operators/): 162 railway companies, what each runs and when it was founded
## Journey guides
- [European trains, city to city](https://worldtrainmap.com/trains/): 670 city pairs: typical journey times, direct-train availability, operators
## Machine access
- [Sitemap](https://worldtrainmap.com/sitemap.xml): every page on the site, an index of https://worldtrainmap.com/sitemap-en.xml, https://worldtrainmap.com/sitemap-de.xml and https://worldtrainmap.com/sitemap-ja.xml
- [MCP server](https://worldtrainmap.com/mcp-server/): connect the atlas to Claude or any MCP client; the endpoint itself is https://worldtrainmap.com/mcp (streamable HTTP JSON-RPC, POST only, no auth; a GET answers 405 by design)
- [Changelog feed](https://worldtrainmap.com/corrections/feed.xml): Atom, one entry per dated batch of fixes and changes: what changed in the atlas and who reported it
- [Open dataset](https://worldtrainmap.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
