World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

RugnirViking

Interesting! It's definitely not complete, quite a few reasonably common passenger routes in Europe I know are missing. But a fun idea, one I would love to play around with more were it more complete

Flightmussy

I am going to sleep now because it is pretty late in Norway and I can sense that I will have a very long work day tomorrow. It is crazy to see that World Train Map is on the front page. Holy shit! Please give feedback meanwhile because it helps the site a lot. I want to add both many more routes and have a well functioning verification system. I hope that the map is giving all of you an enjoyable experience.

throw-the-towel

This is very cool! Out of curiosity, where are you getting the data from?

ofcrpls

India is so barren

rjmunro

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ is much more comprehensive. It's open street map data, but filtered for railway infrastructure.

quietthrow

Amazing. Also super interesting to see that when you filter for high speed rail it’s basically Japan, China and Europe. America (north and south), Africa - basically the rest of the world is in dark ages

asios

amazed and intrigued. great work.

xx__yy

Nice work! But missing the iconic Ghan in Australia https://digital-classroom.nma.gov.au/images/route-taken-ghan

noeltock

Really nice, how does this compare to https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ ?

ks2048

AI lets people produce things that look authoritative, but are crap. Tiresome. At first glance, https://www.openrailwaymap.org seems much better

angry_octet

This is a very dangerous site for train travel geeks. Like, what am I doing with my life? I should be catching the Nile Valley Sleeper, 879km "Overnight up the Nile past Luxor’s temples: wake to feluccas and the First Cataract at Aswan."

ggerules

This is missing just about all of the short lines in America. So by default the is NOT a world train map. This link and website is misleading to think it is the world of train maps. Disappointing.

cwal37

The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI. The design elements pretty clearly mark them as such (and it's even more obvious once you poke around a bit). I love maps, so I get it, they tend to hook people, and the relative density of information can be very high. I work in the electricity space (and of course we have a map[0]), and it has been wild to see the number of "I was a PM at a B2B SaaS/AI company and now I'm here to solve the grid with this vibe-coded tool", which inevitably involves a map. Seems like an inflection point was hit sometime late last year where first SMEs could make little apps they couldn't before, and then it expanded further into people who truly don't know a space but the AI can make it look like they do to other people who also don't, and the cycle continues. [0] https://www.gridstatus.io/map?zoom=4.45¢er=-95.70000,40....

ks2048

Whatever this AI slop is.. the better way would be to use OSM data. If you want more “curated” - there should be corresponding metadata in OSM.

ykl

This is super cool, but at least by a quick glance, I think the coverage for China is very incomplete.

tw1984

according to this "map", there is only HSR train route from Shanghai to Hangzhou. in fact, it shows there are literally just HSR rails in China. a highly inaccurate map is worse than not having such a "map".

kimos

I wonder where the data is sourced. It has lots of detail about some VIA Rail routes in Canada and entirely misses others.

dvh

Košice-Prešov link is missing