The World's Greatest Train Journeys

If you've ever looked at a railway map and wondered which routes are truly worth travelling, then TrainRouter has the answer. The interactive map showcases 767 of the world's greatest train routes across 118 countries, covering around 372,500 kilometres of railway.

Rather than simply displaying rail networks, TrainRouter acts as a curated railway atlas. Every highlighted line has been selected because it offers something distinctive, whether that's spectacular scenery, historic significance, engineering achievement or simply a memorable journey between two cities.

The map's filtering tools make it easy to discover routes that match your interests. You can explore High-speed, Classic, Night Train and Scenic railways, or browse the 60 most famous routes from around the world. Routes can also be filtered geographically by continent, or by journey type, including city-to-city services.

One particularly useful feature is the ability to filter routes by trip duration. Whether you're looking for a short excursion of under three hours or planning a full-day rail adventure, TrainRouter quickly narrows the map to journeys that fit your schedule.

Interaction is refreshingly simple. Hovering over a route reveals a brief description of its story, clicking pins the information panel in place, and the map can be freely panned and zoomed to explore every corner of the globe. My one real criticism concerns these pop-up windows. Most web mapping libraries automatically offset information windows so they appear beside or above the selected feature. For some reason, TrainRouter centres its pop-ups directly over the route being queried. The result is that the information window almost always obscures the very railway line you're trying to examine. 

Also See

• Night Train Map - an interactive map of Europe's night trains
• TrainConnections  - search thousands of train routes to help plan cross-European train journeys
• Chronotrains - showing how far you can travel by train from European cities in hourly increments