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Dartmoor Line — Exeter to Okehampton (classic)
Train: Class 150
Operator: Great Western Railway
Distance: 25 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 40 min
Opened: 2021
Countries: United Kingdom
The first line reopened under Britain’s Restoring Your Railway plan, bringing regular trains back to Okehampton on the edge of Dartmoor half a century after closure.
Šargan Eight — Mokra Gora to Šargan Vitasi (scenic)
Train: Narrow-gauge heritage railbus “Nostalgia” (Ćira) · Class 83 diesel
Operator: Srbijavoz
Distance: 15.5 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: ≈ 2 h (round trip)
Opened: 1925
Countries: Serbia
A 760 mm loop climbing 300 m through 22 tunnels and 5 bridges in a literal figure-eight to gain height.
Belgrade–Niš Line — Belgrade to Niš (classic)
Train: Electric-locomotive-hauled regional coaches
Operator: Srbijavoz
Distance: 230 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 6 h 20 min
Opened: 1884
Countries: Serbia
Serbia’s first main line squeezes through the Grdelica Gorge on stone viaducts — Corridor X’s slowest link, now rebuilding for 200 km/h.
EuroCity “Sava” — Zagreb to Ljubljana (classic)
Train: SŽ series 342 electric locomotive · EuroCity coaches
Operator: HŽPP · Slovenske železnice
Distance: 117 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 32 min
Opened: 1862
Countries: Croatia|Slovenia
The EC “Sava” restored a direct Zagreb–Ljubljana run, and since June 2025 extends once a week onward to Pula for the first time in 30 years.
Bucharest–Constanța InterCity — Bucharest to Constanța (classic)
Train: Alstom Coradia Stream EMU
Operator: CFR Călători
Distance: 225 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 07 min
Opened: 1895
Countries: Romania
Romania’s fastest domestic run crosses the Danube on Anghel Saligny’s 1895 bridge before new EMUs race on to the Black Sea.
Ionian Coast Line — Messina to Siracusa (scenic)
Train: Regionale Veloce coastal EMU
Operator: Trenitalia
Distance: 158 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 3 h 34 min
Opened: 1871
Countries: Italy
Regional trains hug the Ionian shore beneath Mount Etna, calling at Taormina-Giardini before the Baroque port of Siracusa.
Tren de la Fresa — Madrid to Aranjuez (scenic)
Train: Vintage 1900s-style carriages, diesel-hauled
Operator: Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles · Renfe
Distance: 48 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: ≈ 50 min
Opened: 1851
Countries: Spain
Hostesses in 1920s dress hand out strawberries aboard replica carriages on Spain’s second-ever railway, opened in 1851.
El Canfranero — Zaragoza to Canfranc (scenic)
Train: Renfe Media Distancia diesel railcar
Operator: Renfe
Distance: 180 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 3 h 45 min
Opened: 1928
Countries: Spain
Reopened in June 2025 after two years of works, the line climbs to Europe’s grandest abandoned border station, shut since a 1970 bridge collapse.
R11 Costa Brava Line — Barcelona to Portbou (scenic)
Train: Renfe Class 447/449 EMU
Operator: Rodalies de Catalunya
Distance: 172 km
Top speed: 140 km/h
Duration: 2 h 21 min
Opened: 1878
Countries: Spain
Regional trains skirt Costa Brava cliffs near the French border before Portbou, terminus of the line completed in 1878.
Linha do Vouga — Aveiro to Sernada do Vouga (scenic)
Train: Metre-gauge diesel railcar · heritage wooden-carriage train (summer Sat.)
Operator: CP – Comboios de Portugal
Distance: 37 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1911
Countries: Portugal
Portugal’s last surviving metre-gauge line still carries commuters — and a vintage wooden-carriage special every summer Saturday.
Ligne des Pyrénées — Toulouse to Latour-de-Carol (scenic)
Train: SNCF TER Occitanie railcar
Operator: SNCF TER Occitanie
Distance: 155 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 2 h 40 min
Opened: 1929
Countries: France
Four daily trains climb past Foix’s castle and Ax-les-Thermes to Latour-de-Carol, where three different rail gauges meet.
Montreux–Rochers-de-Naye Railway — Montreux to Rochers-de-Naye (scenic)
Train: MVR Abt-rack cogwheel train
Operator: Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera (MVR)
Distance: 10.9 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: 55 min
Opened: 1892
Countries: Switzerland
Climbs 1,700 m from Lake Geneva’s shore to a marmot-filled Alpine garden in under an hour, on Abt rack track dating to 1892.
Wengernalpbahn — Lauterbrunnen to Grindelwald (scenic)
Train: WAB cogwheel electric multiple unit
Operator: Jungfraubahnen
Distance: 19.1 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1893
Countries: Switzerland
The world’s longest continuous cogwheel railway threads Lauterbrunnen to Grindelwald beneath the Eiger’s north face via Kleine Scheidegg.
Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway — Realp to Oberwald (scenic)
Train: HG 3/4 steam locomotive
Operator: Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke (DFB)
Distance: 18 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 45 min
Opened: 1925
Countries: Switzerland
Volunteer-run steam locomotives claw over the 2,160 m Furka Pass past the Rhône Glacier on track abandoned when the base tunnel opened in 1982.
Brienz Rothorn Bahn — Brienz to Rothorn Kulm (scenic)
Train: H 2/3 steam rack locomotive
Operator: Brienz Rothorn Bahn
Distance: 7.6 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: 1 h
Opened: 1892
Countries: Switzerland
A 25% grade steam rack line — Europe’s highest unelectrified railway — climbs from Lake Brienz to a 2,244 m summit in an hour.
Chur–Arosa Line — Chur to Arosa (scenic)
Train: RhB Ge 4/4 II electric multiple unit
Operator: Rhaetian Railway (RhB)
Distance: 25.7 km
Top speed: 55 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1914
Countries: Switzerland
Seventy curves and the record-setting 1914 Langwieser Viaduct carry hourly trains from Chur up into the ski resort of Arosa.
Achenseebahn — Jenbach to Achensee (Seespitz) (scenic)
Train: Steam rack locomotive (built 1889)
Operator: Achenseebahn AG
Distance: 6.76 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: 50 min
Opened: 1889
Countries: Austria
Europe’s oldest still-working steam cog railway — its four 1889 locomotives haul open carriages up to the turquoise Achensee.
Schafbergbahn — St. Wolfgang to Schafbergspitze (scenic)
Train: Steam & diesel rack locomotive
Operator: Salzburg AG
Distance: 5.85 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: 40 min
Opened: 1893
Countries: Austria
Austria’s steepest steam rack railway climbs 1,190 m in 40 minutes to a summit overlooking eleven Salzkammergut lakes.
Pinzgauer Lokalbahn — Zell am See to Krimml (scenic)
Train: Narrow-gauge diesel railcar · steam train (Wed/Thu)
Operator: Pinzgauer Lokalbahn (Salzburg AG)
Distance: 53 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 45 min
Opened: 1898
Countries: Austria
A 760 mm-gauge valley line follows the Salzach past Hohe Tauern peaks to Krimml, ending beneath Austria’s highest waterfall.
Zillertalbahn — Jenbach to Mayrhofen (scenic)
Train: Modern diesel railcar · steam-hauled heritage train
Operator: Zillertaler Verkehrsbetriebe (ZVB)
Distance: 31.7 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1902
Passengers per year: 1540000
Countries: Austria
A working 760 mm-gauge valley railway that still runs steam trains alongside its half-hourly regular service to Mayrhofen.
Čierny Hron Forest Railway — Hronec to Dobroč (scenic)
Train: 0-8-0T steam locomotive · Rába diesel railcar
Operator: Čiernohronská železnica
Distance: 17 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 10 min
Opened: 1909
Countries: Slovakia
One of Europe’s last steam-worked forestry railways — its branch to Dobroč runs straight through the middle of a village football pitch.
Štrba–Štrbské Pleso Rack Railway — Štrba to Štrbské Pleso (scenic)
Train: Stadler GTW 2/6 Class 495.95 rack-and-adhesion EMU
Operator: Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko
Distance: 5 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: ≈ 15 min
Opened: 1896
Countries: Slovakia
Slovakia’s only cog railway climbs 430 vertical metres up a 15% rack gradient into the High Tatras on hybrid EMUs delivered in 2021.
Trenčín Electric Railway (TREŽ) — Trenčianska Teplá to Trenčianske Teplice (classic)
Train: Class 411.9 electric railcar (built 1951–52)
Operator: TREŽ, n.o.
Distance: 5.5 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 15 min
Opened: 1909
Countries: Slovakia
One of Europe’s oldest surviving interurban tramways — 1950s narrow-gauge electric railcars still shuttle up to a Habsburg-era spa town.
Skagen Line (Skagensbanen) — Frederikshavn to Skagen (classic)
Train: Siemens Desiro DMU
Operator: Nordjyske Jernbaner
Distance: 40 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: ≈ 40 min
Opened: 1890
Countries: Denmark
Runs to Denmark’s northernmost station through dune plantations to the sand-blown artists’ town where two seas meet at Grenen.
Jokioinen Museum Railway — Jokioinen to Humppila (scenic)
Train: Tubize 2-6-2T · Lovisa–Vesijärvi 2-8-0 steam locomotives
Operator: Jokioinen Museum Railway
Distance: 14 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: ≈ 40 min
Opened: 1898
Countries: Finland
The last surviving stretch of Finland’s once-extensive 750 mm network, kept running by volunteers with steam engines built in Belgium.
Gulbene–Alūksne Narrow Gauge Railway (Bānītis) — Gulbene to Alūksne (scenic)
Train: TU10 diesel locomotive · vintage carriages
Operator: Gulbenes-Alūksnes bānītis
Distance: 33 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1903
Countries: Latvia
The only regularly operating narrow-gauge passenger railway left in the Baltic states, rattling twice daily through Vidzeme’s forests.
Aukštaitija Narrow Gauge Railway (Siaurukas) — Anykščiai to Rubikiai (scenic)
Train: TU2 diesel locomotive · vintage carriages
Operator: Aukštaitijos siaurasis geležinkelis
Distance: 12 km
Top speed: 25 km/h
Duration: ≈ 35 min
Opened: 1899
Countries: Lithuania
Weekend survivor of a 750 mm network that once ran 68 km to Panevėžys, now trundling summer tourists out to Rubikiai lake.
Carpathian Tram (Vyhoda Forest Railway) — Vyhoda to Dubovyi Kut (scenic)
Train: TU8P / TU6D diesel locomotive · open carriages
Operator: Vyhoda State Forestry (Karpatskyi Tramvai)
Distance: 7 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: ≈ 45 min
Opened: 1890
Countries: Ukraine
Ukraine’s last working forest railway, built in 1890 to haul Carpathian timber, now carries tourists up the Mizunka valley past waterfalls.
Zaslonov Children’s Railway — Zaslonovo to Sosnovy Bor (scenic)
Train: TU2 / TU7 diesel locomotive · narrow-gauge coaches
Operator: Belarusian Railway (Minsk Children’s Railway)
Distance: 4.5 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: ≈ 20 min
Opened: 1955
Countries: Belarus
A working 750 mm railway through Chelyuskintsy Park operated entirely by schoolchildren training as drivers, conductors and dispatchers.
Lillafüred Forest Railway — Miskolc to Garadna (scenic)
Train: Mk48 diesel locomotive · open-sided carriages
Operator: Lillafüredi Állami Erdei Vasút
Distance: 14 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: ≈ 45 min
Opened: 1920
Countries: Hungary
Narrow-gauge line through the Bükk mountains via two tunnels and two viaducts, opened for timber and now Hungary’s best-loved forest train.
Szilvásvárad Forest Railway (Szalajka Valley) — Szilvásvárad to Szalajka-Fátyolvízesés (scenic)
Train: Mk48 diesel locomotive · open-sided carriages
Operator: Egererdő Zrt.
Distance: 5 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: ≈ 20 min
Opened: 1908
Passengers per year: 300000
Countries: Hungary
Hungary’s busiest narrow-gauge railway — a steep timber line up the Szalajka valley to a waterfall, now carrying 300,000-plus riders a year.
Jindřichův Hradec–Nová Bystřice Narrow Gauge — Jindřichův Hradec to Nová Bystřice (scenic)
Train: Steam locomotives · M11 "Tatra" railbuses
Operator: Gepard Express (JHMD heritage line)
Distance: 32.9 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 10 min
Opened: 1897
Countries: Czechia
South Bohemia’s narrow-gauge survivor, rescued by a new operator in 2026 after the original company’s 2022 bankruptcy nearly ended the line.
Train 1900 (Fond-de-Gras Heritage Railway) — Pétange to Fond-de-Gras (scenic)
Train: Steam & diesel locomotives (former Prince Henri Railway stock)
Operator: AMTF (Association des Musées et Tourisme Ferroviaires)
Distance: 8 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: ≈ 25 min
Opened: 1874
Countries: Luxembourg
Vintage steam trains rattle through Luxembourg’s old iron-mining Minett region on track first laid in 1874 to move ore and miners.
Bieszczady Forest Railway — Majdan to Balnica (scenic)
Train: Px48 steam locomotive · Lyd2 diesel locomotive
Operator: Bieszczadzka Kolejka Leśna Foundation
Distance: 9 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: ≈ 45 min
Opened: 1898
Passengers per year: 168100
Countries: Poland
Poland’s highest narrow-gauge line, a former logging railway that now carries over 150,000 riders a year into the Bieszczady wilderness.
Waterford & Suir Valley Railway — Kilmeaden to Bilberry (scenic)
Train: Hunslet diesel locomotive · open-sided carriages
Operator: Waterford & Suir Valley Railway
Distance: 10 km
Top speed: 25 km/h
Duration: ≈ 45 min
Opened: 2003
Countries: Ireland
Narrow-gauge trains follow the tidal River Suir on the trackbed of an 1878 mainline, running alongside the Waterford Greenway cycle path.
Sauschwänzlebahn (Wutach Valley Railway) — Weizen to Blumberg (scenic)
Train: Class 52 / 93 steam locomotive · heritage diesel railcars
Operator: Sauschwänzlebahn e.V.
Distance: 26.5 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 15 min
Opened: 1890
Countries: Germany
Germany’s only spiral railway tunnel — a 1,700 m loop at Stockhalde lets the line climb the Black Forest by circling back over itself.
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme — Cayeux-sur-Mer to Le Crotoy (scenic)
Train: 130T steam locomotive (Cail · Haine-Saint-Pierre) · Belle Époque carriages
Operator: Association du Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Distance: 28 km
Top speed: 25 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1887
Countries: France
Belle-Époque steam trains skirt the Somme estuary’s tidal salt marshes, with locomotives running round their own train at each terminus.
Chemin de Fer du Bocq — Ciney to Yvoir (scenic)
Train: Vintage SNCB railcar · heritage diesel locomotives
Operator: Patrimoine Ferroviaire et Tourisme
Distance: 21 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 15 min
Opened: 1907
Countries: Belgium
Three tunnels and five stone viaducts pack into the Bocq valley on one of Belgium’s most dramatically engineered branch lines.
Museumstoomtram Hoorn–Medemblik — Hoorn to Medemblik (scenic)
Train: Preserved steam locomotives (SHM fleet) · vintage carriages
Operator: Museumstoomtram Hoorn–Medemblik
Distance: 20 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 15 min
Opened: 1887
Countries: Netherlands
A steam tram dating from 1887 still crosses North Holland’s polders and tulip fields between Hoorn and the old Zuiderzee port of Medemblik.
Talyllyn Railway — Tywyn to Nant Gwernol (scenic)
Train: Preserved 0-4-0T / 0-4-2T steam locomotives (Talyllyn, Dolgoch, Edward Thomas)
Operator: Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society
Distance: 11.7 km
Top speed: 25 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1866
Countries: United Kingdom
The world’s first railway saved by volunteers, in 1951 — its Victorian steam engines still cross Dolgoch Viaduct into the Fathew valley.
Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway — Hythe to Dungeness (scenic)
Train: 4-6-2 one-third-scale steam locomotives
Operator: Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Distance: 22 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1927
Countries: United Kingdom
Marketed as the world’s smallest public railway, its steam expresses still get local schoolchildren to class along Romney Marsh.
Selketalbahn (Harz Narrow Gauge) — Gernrode to Hasselfelde (scenic)
Train: Class 99.7 Mallet steam locomotive · heritage coaches
Operator: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
Distance: 35 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 45 min
Opened: 1887
Countries: Germany
Metre-gauge Mallet steam locomotives still double-head trains out of Alexisbad on this Harz valley line, opened for timber and ore in 1887.
Arlberg Railway — Innsbruck to Bludenz (scenic)
Train: ÖBB Railjet
Operator: ÖBB
Distance: 137 km
Top speed: 140 km/h
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Opened: 1884
Countries: Austria
Austria’s only east–west mountain mainline, vaulting the Trisanna gorge beside Wiesberg Castle before a 1,310 m summit in the 10.2 km Arlberg tunnel.
Al Ándalus — Seville to Madrid (night)
Train: Belle Époque sleeping cars (1928–1930)
Operator: Renfe Trenes Turísticos de Lujo
Distance: 1300 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 7 days
Opened: 1985
Countries: Spain
A rolling Belle Époque palace whose 1929 sleeping cars once carried the British court from Calais to the Riviera — now easing from Seville to Madrid in seven days.
Belmond Royal Scotsman — Edinburgh to Edinburgh (night)
Train: Edwardian-style Pullman rake
Operator: Belmond
Distance: 1000 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 5 days
Opened: 1985
Countries: United Kingdom
Just 40 guests aboard mahogany-panelled Pullmans that cross the Forth Bridge outbound and stable each night in Highland sidings.
TGV inOui — Paris to Barcelona (high-speed)
Train: TGV Euroduplex
Operator: SNCF Voyageurs
Distance: 1073 km
Top speed: 320 km/h
Duration: 6 h 39 min
Opened: 2013
Countries: France|Spain
Paris to Barcelona in 6 h 39 min, diving under the Pyrenees through the 8.3 km Perthus tunnel at the Spanish border.
Berlin-Warszawa-Express — Berlin to Warsaw (classic)
Train: EuroCity (EU44 Husarz)
Operator: PKP Intercity & DB
Distance: 570 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 5 h 25 min
Opened: 2002
Countries: Germany|Poland
Six EuroCitys a day across the North European Plain, with the cult WARS dining car serving pierogi between the Oder and the Vistula.
Brenner Railway — Innsbruck to Verona (classic)
Train: DB-ÖBB EuroCity Railjet
Operator: ÖBB & DB
Distance: 275 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 3 h 30 min
Opened: 1867
Countries: Austria|Italy
The first railway over the main Alpine crest (1867) still tops the open pass at 1,371 m — no summit tunnel, just a station straddling the border.
Cremallera de Núria — Ribes de Freser to Núria (scenic)
Train: Stadler GTW rack railcar
Operator: FGC
Distance: 12.5 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 40 min
Opened: 1931
Countries: Spain
The only way to roadless Núria: Abt rack rails climbing 1,000 vertical metres through the Freser gorges to a sanctuary at 1,964 m.
Lötschberger — Bern to Brig (scenic)
Train: BLS RABe 535 Lötschberger
Operator: BLS
Distance: 110 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Opened: 1913
Countries: Switzerland
The 1913 mountain line the base tunnel made optional — Felsenburg spirals, a 14.6 km summit tunnel, then the Bietschtal bridge on a ledge above the Rhône.
Intercity Notte Rome–Palermo — Rome to Palermo (night)
Train: Intercity Notte sleeper
Operator: Trenitalia
Distance: 920 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 12 h 30 min
Opened: 1899
Countries: Italy
Europe’s last train on a ship: the sleeper is split at Villa San Giovanni and floated across the Strait of Messina before breakfast.
Frecciarossa Paris–Milan — Paris to Milan (high-speed)
Train: Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR 400)
Operator: Trenitalia France
Distance: 900 km
Top speed: 300 km/h
Duration: 6 h 50 min
Opened: 2021
Countries: France|Italy
Italy’s 300 km/h flagship on French rails, threading the 13.7 km Fréjus tunnel of 1871 — back since April 2025 after a 19-month landslide closure.
Tauern Railway — Salzburg to Villach (scenic)
Train: ÖBB Railjet / EuroCity
Operator: ÖBB
Distance: 183 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 40 min
Opened: 1909
Countries: Austria
Franz Joseph’s 1909 crossing of the Hohe Tauern — stone viaducts up the Gastein spa valley to an 8.4 km tunnel at 1,226 m.
Isle of Man Steam Railway — Douglas to Port Erin (scenic)
Train: Beyer Peacock 2-4-0T steam
Operator: Isle of Man Transport
Distance: 25 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 1 h 0 min
Opened: 1874
Countries: Isle of Man
Victorian Beyer Peacock tanks of 1874 still haul their original carriages down 25 km of 3 ft gauge to the island’s southern tip.
Coastal Classic — Anchorage to Seward (scenic)
Train: GoldStar dome & Adventure Class cars
Operator: Alaska Railroad
Distance: 183 km
Top speed: 95 km/h
Duration: 4 h 35 min
Opened: 1923
Countries: United States
Hugs the bore-tide flats of Turnagain Arm, then climbs past Spencer Glacier into country no road reaches.
Belmond Hiram Bingham — Cusco (Poroy) to Machu Picchu (scenic)
Train: Belmond Pullman coaches
Operator: Belmond / PeruRail
Distance: 96 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: 3 h 20 min
Opened: 2003
Countries: Peru
Belmond’s navy-and-gold Pullman to Machu Picchu, with brunch, a pisco bar and citadel entry folded into the fare since 2003.
Train de Charlevoix — Québec City to La Malbaie (scenic)
Train: DB 628 diesel railcars
Operator: Réseau Charlevoix
Distance: 140 km
Top speed: 70 km/h
Duration: 4 h 30 min
Opened: 1919
Passengers per year: 40000
Countries: Canada
Runs 140 km wedged between Laurentian cliffs and the St. Lawrence, at times just metres from the tide.
Sudbury–White River — Sudbury to White River (classic)
Train: Budd RDC railcars
Operator: VIA Rail
Distance: 484 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 9 h
Opened: 1885
Countries: Canada
Canada’s last Budd RDC mainline train will flag-stop anywhere along 484 km of roadless Canadian Shield.
Winter Park Express — Denver to Winter Park (scenic)
Train: Superliner bi-level cars
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 90 km
Top speed: 95 km/h
Duration: 2 h 11 min
Opened: 2017
Countries: United States
Amtrak’s revived ski train climbs more than 1,100 m through 28 tunnels and spills skiers out steps from Winter Park’s lifts.
Canyon Spirit — Denver to Moab (scenic)
Train: SilverLeaf glass-dome coaches
Operator: Canyon Spirit (Armstrong Collective)
Distance: 570 km
Top speed: 96 km/h
Duration: 2 days
Opened: 2021
Countries: United States
Crosses the Continental Divide inside the 10 km Moffat Tunnel, then follows the Colorado River two dome-car days to Moab’s red rock.
Strasburg Rail Road — Strasburg to Paradise (scenic)
Train: Baldwin & CN steam, wooden coaches
Operator: Strasburg Rail Road
Distance: 7 km
Top speed: 24 km/h
Duration: 25 min
Opened: 1832
Countries: United States
Chartered in 1832, America’s oldest continuously operating railroad still steams through Lancaster County’s Amish farmland.
Mountaineer — North Conway to Crawford Notch (scenic)
Train: EMD GP38 diesels, dome & open cars
Operator: Conway Scenic Railroad
Distance: 38 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 1875
Countries: United States
Follows the 1875 Maine Central grade up Crawford Notch, creeping across the curved Frankenstein Trestle high above the Saco.
Royal Gorge Route — Cañon City to Parkdale (scenic)
Train: F40PH diesels, Vista Domes
Operator: Royal Gorge Route Railroad
Distance: 19 km
Top speed: 25 km/h
Duration: 1 h
Opened: 1879
Countries: United States
Threads the canyon won in the 1879 “Royal Gorge War”, the Arkansas River alongside and a suspension bridge 291 m overhead.
St. Kitts Scenic Railway — Basseterre to La Vallee (scenic)
Train: double-deck open-top railcars
Operator: St. Kitts Scenic Railway
Distance: 29 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Opened: 1926
Countries: St Kitts and Nevis
The last railway of the West Indies loops the island on a 1912–26 sugar-cane line, ridden in double-deck open-top cars.
Maria Fumaça de Tiradentes — São João del-Rei to Tiradentes (scenic)
Train: 19th-century Baldwin steam, 762 mm gauge
Operator: VLI
Distance: 12 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 35 min
Opened: 1881
Countries: Brazil
Baldwin steam locomotives have worked this 76 cm-gauge line ever since Emperor Pedro II opened it in 1881.
Trem do Vinho — Bento Gonçalves to Carlos Barbosa (scenic)
Train: 1941 Maria Fumaça steam train
Operator: Giordani Turismo
Distance: 23 km
Top speed: 25 km/h
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1919
Countries: Brazil
A 1941 steam engine ambles 23 km through the Serra Gaúcha wine country to a soundtrack of tarantellas and popping corks.
Blue Mountains Line — Sydney to Lithgow (scenic)
Train: Mariyung (D set) double-deck EMU
Operator: NSW TrainLink
Distance: 156 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 2 h 45 min
Opened: 1869
Countries: Australia
Climbs from near sea level to 1,017 m at Katoomba through a UNESCO-listed maze of sandstone cliffs and eucalypt canyons.
Savannahlander — Cairns to Forsayth (scenic)
Train: 1963 “Silver Bullet” 2000-class railmotors
Operator: Cairns Kuranda Steam
Distance: 424 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 36 h
Opened: 1910
Countries: Australia
Sixty-year-old railmotors take two unhurried days to cover 424 km from coastal rainforest to the 1910 gold-rush railhead at Forsayth.