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SJ Snabbtåg — Stockholm to Malmö (classic)
Train: X 2000
Operator: SJ
Distance: 614 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 4 h 22 min
Opened: 1990
Countries: Sweden
SJ’s tilting X2000 links Stockholm with Malmö and the Øresund gateway at up to 200 km/h — Sweden’s flagship fast run down the Southern Main Line.
SJ Snabbtåg — Stockholm to Sundsvall (classic)
Train: X55 · SJ 3000
Operator: SJ
Distance: 343 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 3 h 15 min
Opened: 1927
Countries: Sweden
Fast SJ trains climb the East Coast Line along the Gulf of Bothnia’s shore to the old timber city of Sundsvall.
SJ Nattåg — Stockholm to Åre (night)
Train: WL sleeping cars
Operator: SJ
Distance: 630 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 9 h
Opened: 1882
Countries: Sweden
SJ’s sleeper rolls out of Stockholm at night and wakes among the snow-clad fells of Jämtland at the Åre ski resort.
Norrtåg — Umeå to Luleå (classic)
Train: Bombardier Regina (X52)
Operator: Norrtåg
Distance: 215 km
Top speed: 180 km/h
Duration: 3 h 55 min
Opened: 2012
Countries: Sweden
A rare passenger run through Norrland’s forests joining two northern university cities near the head of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Roslagsbanan — Stockholm to Kårsta (scenic)
Train: SL X10p (891 mm)
Operator: SL
Distance: 43 km
Top speed: 80 km/h
Duration: 1 h
Opened: 1885
Countries: Sweden
Sweden’s last commercial narrow-gauge railway (891 mm), still threading Stockholm’s leafy northern suburbs out to rural Kårsta.
Öresundståg — Gothenburg to Copenhagen (classic)
Train: X31 Contessa
Operator: Öresundståg
Distance: 336 km
Top speed: 180 km/h
Duration: 3 h 50 min
Opened: 2000
Countries: Sweden|Denmark
Rolls off Sweden’s West Coast Line and over the 8 km Øresund Bridge, plunging into the Drogden tunnel to reach Copenhagen.
DSB InterCity — Copenhagen to Aalborg (classic)
Train: IC3 (MF)
Operator: DSB
Distance: 425 km
Top speed: 180 km/h
Duration: 4 h 27 min
Opened: 1869
Countries: Denmark
DSB’s long haul up Jutland — crossing the Great Belt Fixed Link — to Aalborg, gateway to Denmark’s north.
DSB InterCity — Copenhagen to Esbjerg (classic)
Train: IC3 (MF)
Operator: DSB
Distance: 315 km
Top speed: 180 km/h
Duration: 2 h 55 min
Opened: 1874
Countries: Denmark
Runs west to Esbjerg, Denmark’s North Sea port and the historic embarkation point for steamers and emigrants to Britain.
Østfoldbanen — Oslo to Halden (classic)
Train: Stadler Flirt Type 75
Operator: Vy
Distance: 136 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Opened: 1879
Countries: Norway
Vy’s RE20 traces the Østfold Line down the east shore of the Oslofjord toward the Swedish border at Halden.
Gjøvikbanen — Oslo to Gjøvik (classic)
Train: NSB Class 69
Operator: Vy
Distance: 124 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 1902
Countries: Norway
Climbs out of Oslo through the deep Nordmarka forest and over Hadeland to Lake Mjøsa at Gjøvik.
Vestfoldbanen — Oslo to Skien (classic)
Train: Stadler Flirt Type 74
Operator: Vy
Distance: 170 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Opened: 1881
Countries: Norway
The Vestfold Line runs down the fjord’s west side through Tønsberg, Norway’s oldest town, to industrial Grenland.
VR Pendolino — Helsinki to Oulu (classic)
Train: Sm3 Pendolino
Operator: VR
Distance: 690 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 5 h 25 min
Opened: 1995
Countries: Finland
VR’s tilting Pendolino sprints up the 200 km/h Finnish Main Line toward the head of the Gulf of Bothnia at Oulu.
VR InterCity — Helsinki to Joensuu (classic)
Train: Sr2 · double-deck IC
Operator: VR
Distance: 448 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 4 h 9 min
Opened: 1894
Countries: Finland
A double-deck InterCity east along the Karelian line to Joensuu, gateway to Finland’s forested North Karelia.
VR InterCity — Helsinki to Kuopio (classic)
Train: InterCity2 double-deck
Operator: VR
Distance: 455 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 4 h 8 min
Opened: 1889
Countries: Finland
The Savonia line threads north between the islands of Finland’s lake district to Kuopio.
VR Night Train — Helsinki to Kolari (night)
Train: double-deck sleeper
Operator: VR
Distance: 989 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 14 h 30 min
Opened: 1966
Countries: Finland
Finland’s northernmost railhead: an overnight car-carrier sleeper above the Arctic Circle to the fells of Ylläs and Levi.
Elron — Tallinn to Tartu (classic)
Train: Stadler FLIRT
Operator: Elron
Distance: 185 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Opened: 1876
Countries: Estonia
Estonia’s busiest intercity run — orange Stadler FLIRTs linking Tallinn with Tartu, the country’s ancient university city.
Elron — Tallinn to Narva (classic)
Train: Stadler FLIRT
Operator: Elron
Distance: 210 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 27 min
Opened: 1870
Countries: Estonia
Runs east to Narva on the Russian frontier, where two medieval castles face off across the border river.
Elron — Tallinn to Viljandi (classic)
Train: Stadler FLIRT
Operator: Elron
Distance: 161 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 5 min
Opened: 1901
Countries: Estonia
A rural FLIRT ride south through Estonia’s forests and bogs to the lakeside hill town of Viljandi.
Vivi — Riga to Daugavpils (classic)
Train: DR1A DMU
Operator: Pasažieru vilciens
Distance: 218 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 3 h
Opened: 1861
Countries: Latvia
The historic Riga–Dünaburg line to Daugavpils, Latvia’s second city, hard by the Lithuanian and Belarusian borders.
Vivi — Riga to Valga (classic)
Train: PESA 730ML
Operator: Pasažieru vilciens
Distance: 170 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 25 min
Opened: 1889
Countries: Latvia|Estonia
Vivi’s new PESA railcars reach the twin border town of Valga/Valka — split between Estonia and Latvia — now a link in the Baltic capitals chain.
Vivi — Riga to Liepāja (classic)
Train: DR1AM DMU
Operator: Pasažieru vilciens
Distance: 215 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 3 h 16 min
Opened: 2017
Countries: Latvia
A once-daily run reborn in 2017, crossing Courland to Liepāja, the windswept Baltic port and former Tsarist naval base.
LTG Link — Vilnius to Kaunas (classic)
Train: Škoda EJ575
Operator: LTG Link
Distance: 102 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Opened: 1862
Countries: Lithuania
Hourly express between Lithuania’s two largest cities along a segment of the old St Petersburg–Warsaw Railway.
LTG Link — Vilnius to Klaipėda (classic)
Train: PESA 730ML
Operator: LTG Link
Distance: 376 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 4 h 39 min
Opened: 1875
Countries: Lithuania
LTG Link’s longest domestic haul, crossing Samogitia to Klaipėda, Lithuania’s only seaport on the Baltic.
LTG Link — Vilnius to Riga (classic)
Train: PESA 730ML
Operator: LTG Link
Distance: 360 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 4 h 13 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: Lithuania|Latvia
The first direct Vilnius–Riga train in decades, restored in 2023, reconnecting two Baltic capitals via Šiauliai and Jelgava.
LTG Link — Vilnius to Warsaw (classic)
Train: LTG DMU + PKP IC
Operator: LTG Link / PKP Intercity
Distance: 620 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 7 h 30 min
Opened: 2022
Countries: Lithuania|Poland
For years the Baltics’ only rail gateway to the rest of Europe — Vilnius to Warsaw through the Suwałki Gap, changing trains at Mockava.
Vande Bharat Express — Mumbai to Ahmedabad (classic)
Train: Vande Bharat · Train 18
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 493 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 5 h 25 min
Opened: 2022
Countries: India
India’s third Vande Bharat: a fully-AC self-propelled set gliding the Mumbai–Ahmedabad corridor at up to 130 km/h.
Vande Bharat Express — Delhi to Katra (classic)
Train: Vande Bharat · Train 18
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 655 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 8 h
Opened: 2019
Countries: India
India’s second Vande Bharat, launched 2019 to carry pilgrims 655 km from Delhi to the Vaishno Devi base town of Katra.
Vande Bharat Express — Chennai to Mysuru (classic)
Train: Vande Bharat · Train 18
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 497 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 6 h 30 min
Opened: 2022
Countries: India
South India’s first Vande Bharat (India’s 5th), linking Chennai, Bengaluru’s tech hub and the palace city of Mysuru.
Vande Bharat Express — Katra to Srinagar (scenic)
Train: Vande Bharat · Train 18
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 190 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 3 h 20 min
Opened: 2025
Countries: India
Crosses the Chenab Rail Bridge — 359 m above the river, the world’s highest railway arch bridge, taller than the Eiffel Tower.
Gatimaan Express — Delhi to Jhansi (classic)
Train: WAP-5 · LHB rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 403 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 4 h 25 min
Opened: 2016
Countries: India
India’s first 160 km/h train — the “Speedy” express dashes Delhi to Jhansi via Agra’s Taj and the fort city of Gwalior.
Vivek Express — Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari (classic)
Train: LHB superfast rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 4154 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 3 days
Opened: 2011
Countries: India
India’s longest train journey: 4,154 km and roughly 75 hours from Assam’s tea country to the subcontinent’s southern tip.
Palace on Wheels — Delhi to Delhi (scenic)
Train: saloon rake
Operator: RTDC · Indian Railways
Distance: 2300 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 8 days
Opened: 1982
Countries: India
India’s original luxury train (1982): a week-long Rajasthan circuit in carriages styled on the private saloons of the maharajas.
Deccan Odyssey — Mumbai to Mumbai (scenic)
Train: luxury saloon rake
Operator: MTDC · Indian Railways
Distance: 2200 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 8 days
Opened: 2004
Countries: India
Maharashtra’s answer to the Palace on Wheels — a blue-liveried luxury rake looping the Konkan coast to the Ajanta and Ellora caves.
Kangra Valley Railway — Pathankot to Joginder Nagar (scenic)
Train: ZDM narrow-gauge diesel
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 164 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: 10 h
Opened: 1929
Countries: India
The world’s longest 2 ft 6 in narrow-gauge line, curling 164 km beneath the snow-capped Dhauladhar range on nearly 1,000 bridges.
Tejas Express — Delhi to Lucknow (classic)
Train: Tejas LHB rake
Operator: IRCTC
Distance: 512 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 6 h 15 min
Opened: 2019
Countries: India
India’s first train run by a separate operator, IRCTC, rather than the Railways — with onboard hosts and automatic payouts for delays.
Duronto Express — Mumbai to Howrah (night)
Train: LHB AC rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 1968 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 27 h 25 min
Opened: 2009
Countries: India
An all-AC, near-non-stop “Duronto” linking India’s two biggest cities across the central heartland in about 27 hours.
Swarna Shatabdi — Delhi to Amritsar (classic)
Train: WAP-7 · LHB rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 448 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 6 h 15 min
Opened: 1994
Countries: India
The Swarna Shatabdi day train (1994) speeds from the capital to the Golden Temple city of Amritsar in a shade over six hours.
Subak Raftar — Lahore to Rawalpindi (classic)
Train: Pakistan Railways rake
Operator: Pakistan Railways
Distance: 290 km
Top speed: 105 km/h
Duration: 4 h 35 min
Opened: 1881
Countries: Pakistan
A fast daytime intercity up Pakistan’s historic Main Line 1, sprinting Lahore to Rawalpindi across the Chenab and Jhelum rivers.
Parabat Express — Dhaka to Sylhet (classic)
Train: PT Inka rake
Operator: Bangladesh Railway
Distance: 319 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 6 h 30 min
Opened: 1986
Countries: Bangladesh
Runs Dhaka to Sylhet through the emerald tea gardens and forested hills of Srimangal, Bangladesh’s brew capital.
Sundarban Express — Dhaka to Khulna (classic)
Train: PT Inka rake
Operator: Bangladesh Railway
Distance: 383 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 7 h 30 min
Opened: 2003
Countries: Bangladesh
Now races Dhaka to Khulna over the 6.1 km Padma Bridge, whose rail deck opened in 2024 to slash the journey to the southwest.
Banalata Express — Dhaka to Rajshahi (classic)
Train: PT Inka rake
Operator: Bangladesh Railway
Distance: 276 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 4 h 40 min
Opened: 2019
Countries: Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s flagship no-stop intercity, sweeping across the 4.8 km Jamuna “Bangabandhu” Bridge on its Dhaka–Rajshahi dash.
Yal Devi — Colombo to Jaffna (classic)
Train: Class M10 diesel
Operator: Sri Lanka Railways
Distance: 304 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 6 h 40 min
Opened: 1956
Countries: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s Northern Line express — its tracks to Jaffna, torn up during 25 years of civil war, were relaid and reopened in 2015.
Lào Cai Sleeper — Hanoi to Lao Cai (night)
Train: SP1/SP3 sleeper
Operator: Vietnam Railways
Distance: 296 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 8 h
Opened: 1906
Countries: Vietnam
Overnight metre-gauge sleeper up the Red River valley to Lào Cai, the mountain gateway to the terraced rice slopes of Sapa.
Hai Phong Line — Hanoi to Hai Phong (classic)
Train: Vietnam Railways railcar
Operator: Vietnam Railways
Distance: 102 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 2 h 25 min
Opened: 1902
Countries: Vietnam
French-built in 1902, this metre-gauge line still links Hanoi to Vietnam’s great northern port through the Red River delta.
Da Lat Railway — Da Lat to Trai Mat (scenic)
Train: heritage railcar
Operator: Vietnam Railways
Distance: 7 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 25 min
Opened: 1932
Countries: Vietnam
The last working stub of the French cog railway to Da Lat — 7 km of heritage track from a 1938 Art Deco station to Trại Mát.
Maeklong Railway — Bangkok to Samut Songkhram (scenic)
Train: SRT THN railcar
Operator: State Railway of Thailand
Distance: 67 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 3 h
Opened: 1905
Countries: Thailand
At Mae Klong the train noses through Talat Rom Hup, the market whose stallholders whisk their awnings off the rails as it passes.
Eastern Line — Bangkok to Aranyaprathet (classic)
Train: SRT THN railcar
Operator: State Railway of Thailand
Distance: 255 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 5 h 15 min
Opened: 1926
Countries: Thailand
Bargain 3rd-class ordinary trains rattle to the frontier at Ban Khlong Luek — Thailand’s rail gateway to Cambodia and Angkor.
KTM ETS — Kuala Lumpur to Padang Besar (classic)
Train: KTM Class 93 ETS
Operator: KTM
Distance: 500 km
Top speed: 140 km/h
Duration: 5 h 30 min
Opened: 2015
Countries: Malaysia
The world’s fastest metre-gauge service at 140 km/h, running the peninsula’s west coast to the Thai border at Padang Besar.
Jungle Railway — Gemas to Tumpat (scenic)
Train: KTM diesel railcar
Operator: KTM
Distance: 528 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: 11 h
Opened: 1931
Countries: Malaysia
The nicknamed Jungle Railway threads Malaysia’s rainforested interior past Taman Negara, from Gemas up to Tumpat near the Thai border.
Argo Parahyangan — Jakarta to Bandung (classic)
Train: CC206-hauled rake
Operator: Kereta Api Indonesia
Distance: 166 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 50 min
Opened: 2010
Countries: Indonesia
The scenic conventional climb over the Priangan highlands and tall Cikubang viaduct — the leisurely rival to the Whoosh bullet line.
KRL Commuterline — Yogyakarta to Solo (classic)
Train: KfW i9000 EMU
Operator: KAI Commuter
Distance: 65 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Opened: 2021
Countries: Indonesia
Java’s first electrified inter-city commuter outside Jakarta, gliding past the 9th-century Prambanan temples between two royal cities.
Yangon–Mandalay Express — Yangon to Mandalay (classic)
Train: DEMU railcar
Operator: Myanma Railways
Distance: 620 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 10 h
Opened: 1889
Countries: Myanmar
Myanmar’s 1889 British-built rail spine, now covered in about 10 hours by new air-conditioned DEMU expresses.
PNR Commuter — Calamba to Lucena (classic)
Train: Kiha 59 DMU
Operator: Philippine National Railways
Distance: 90 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 2 h 33 min
Opened: 1916
Countries: Philippines
A surviving stretch of the century-old Manila–Legazpi main line, its ex-Japanese railcars trundling through Quezon’s coconut country.
Cornish Riviera Express — London to Penzance (classic)
Train: Class 802 IET
Operator: Great Western Railway
Distance: 491 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 5 h
Opened: 1904
Countries: United Kingdom
The daytime flyer to Britain’s far south-west since 1904, racing 300 miles past Dartmoor and along the wave-battered Dawlish sea wall to Penzance.
South Wales Main Line — London to Swansea (classic)
Train: Class 800 IET
Operator: Great Western Railway
Distance: 306 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 45 min
Opened: 1850
Countries: United Kingdom
GWR’s flagship South Wales express; Hitachi bi-modes drop off the 25 kV wires west of Cardiff and switch to diesel for the last dash to Swansea.
Great Western Main Line — London to Bristol (classic)
Train: Class 800 IET
Operator: Great Western Railway
Distance: 190 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 1 h 19 min
Opened: 1841
Countries: United Kingdom
Brunel’s original 1841 main line — famously flat and straight, boring dead-level through the 3 km Box Tunnel, said to face the sunrise on his birthday.
Avanti West Coast — London to Manchester (classic)
Train: Class 390 Pendolino
Operator: Avanti West Coast
Distance: 296 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 7 min
Opened: 1966
Countries: United Kingdom
Italian-built tilting Pendolinos lean into the curves of the West Coast Main Line, holding 125 mph where an upright train would have to brake.
Avanti West Coast — London to Liverpool (classic)
Train: Class 390 Pendolino
Operator: Avanti West Coast
Distance: 286 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Opened: 1966
Countries: United Kingdom
Fast tilting Pendolinos finish at Liverpool Lime Street, opened 1836 and one of the world’s oldest grand terminus stations still in daily use.
Avanti West Coast — London to Birmingham (classic)
Train: Class 390 Pendolino
Operator: Avanti West Coast
Distance: 182 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Opened: 1838
Countries: United Kingdom
Traces the pioneering 1838 London and Birmingham Railway — the first great trunk line driven into the capital — from Euston to England’s second city.
LNER — London to Leeds (classic)
Train: Class 801 Azuma
Operator: London North Eastern Railway
Distance: 270 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 9 min
Opened: 1852
Countries: United Kingdom
Japanese-designed Azuma bi-modes sprint the East Coast Main Line out of King’s Cross (1852) to reach Leeds in a little over two hours.
LNER — London to Newcastle (classic)
Train: Class 800 Azuma
Operator: London North Eastern Railway
Distance: 394 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 37 min
Opened: 1850
Countries: United Kingdom
Azuma expresses hold 125 mph down the East Coast Main Line, sweeping over the Tyne into Newcastle on Robert Stephenson’s High Level Bridge.
CrossCountry — Aberdeen to Plymouth (classic)
Train: Class 220 Voyager
Operator: CrossCountry
Distance: 1118 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 11 h 30 min
Opened: 2025
Countries: United Kingdom
Britain’s longest direct train — one Voyager grinding 695 miles and nearly 40 stops from Aberdeen on the North Sea to Plymouth on the Channel.
Kyle of Lochalsh Line — Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh (scenic)
Train: Class 158
Operator: ScotRail
Distance: 132 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 38 min
Opened: 1897
Countries: United Kingdom
One of the world’s great scenic railways, blasted through Torridonian rock for 82 miles from Inverness to the Skye ferry pier at Kyle of Lochalsh.
Far North Line — Inverness to Wick (scenic)
Train: Class 158
Operator: ScotRail
Distance: 259 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 4 h 21 min
Opened: 1874
Countries: United Kingdom
Britain’s most northerly line, a lonely 4-hour run to Wick that swings far inland on the Lairg Loop to dodge the deep Highland sea firths.
Heart of Wales Line — Swansea to Shrewsbury (scenic)
Train: Class 150
Operator: Transport for Wales
Distance: 195 km
Top speed: 95 km/h
Duration: 4 h
Opened: 1868
Countries: United Kingdom
A 121-mile request-stop ramble through empty Mid Wales, crossing the castle-like 13-arch Knucklas Viaduct where trains halt only if you flag them down.
Cambrian Coast Line — Machynlleth to Pwllheli (scenic)
Train: Class 158
Operator: Transport for Wales
Distance: 93 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 2 h 24 min
Opened: 1867
Countries: United Kingdom
Clings to the Mid-Wales shore on mostly single track, rumbling across the half-mile timber Barmouth Viaduct over the Mawddach estuary.
North Wales Coast Line — Crewe to Holyhead (classic)
Train: Class 197
Operator: Transport for Wales
Distance: 171 km
Top speed: 145 km/h
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Opened: 1850
Countries: United Kingdom
The old Irish Mail route to the Dublin ferries, crossing Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Bridge to Anglesey and skirting the walls of Conwy Castle.
North Yorkshire Moors Railway — Pickering to Whitby (scenic)
Train: Heritage steam
Operator: North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Distance: 39 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 1973
Passengers per year: 350000
Countries: United Kingdom
One of the world’s busiest steam heritage lines, climbing Stephenson’s 1836 route over the moors to Goathland — Hogsmeade in the Harry Potter films.
Severn Valley Railway — Kidderminster to Bridgnorth (scenic)
Train: Heritage steam
Operator: Severn Valley Railway
Distance: 26 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Opened: 1970
Passengers per year: 250000
Countries: United Kingdom
Sixteen miles of preserved Great Western branch line tracing the River Severn, crossing the water on the graceful iron span of Victoria Bridge.
Bluebell Railway — Sheffield Park to East Grinstead (scenic)
Train: Heritage steam
Operator: Bluebell Railway
Distance: 18 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 45 min
Opened: 1960
Countries: United Kingdom
The world’s first preserved standard-gauge passenger railway, running vintage steam through the Sussex Weald without a break since 1960.
West Somerset Railway — Bishops Lydeard to Minehead (scenic)
Train: Heritage steam
Operator: West Somerset Railway
Distance: 37 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Opened: 1976
Countries: United Kingdom
Britain’s longest heritage railway — nearly 23 miles of steam from the Quantock Hills down to the Bristol Channel shore at Minehead.
Vale of Rheidol Railway — Aberystwyth to Devil’s Bridge (scenic)
Train: Narrow-gauge steam
Operator: Vale of Rheidol Railway
Distance: 19 km
Top speed: 24 km/h
Duration: 1 h
Opened: 1902
Countries: United Kingdom
Narrow-gauge steam grinding 200 m uphill from the sea at Aberystwyth to the wooded gorge of Devil’s Bridge — the last steam line British Rail ever ran.
InterCity — Dublin to Galway (classic)
Train: Class 22000 ICR
Operator: Iarnród Éireann
Distance: 208 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Opened: 1851
Countries: Ireland
Iarnród Éireann’s diesel railcars strike west across the boggy Irish Midlands, crossing the Shannon at Athlone to the Atlantic city of Galway.
InterCity — Dublin to Limerick (classic)
Train: Class 22000 ICR
Operator: Iarnród Éireann
Distance: 200 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Opened: 1848
Countries: Ireland
Leaves the Dublin–Cork main line at Limerick Junction, a curious station where trains long had to reverse, before the final run to the Shannon at Limerick.
InterCity — Dublin to Sligo (classic)
Train: Class 22000 ICR
Operator: Iarnród Éireann
Distance: 178 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 3 h 3 min
Opened: 1862
Countries: Ireland
The old Midland Great Western route from Dublin Connolly over the drumlin lakelands to Sligo, W. B. Yeats’s country beneath flat-topped Ben Bulben.
InterCity — Dublin to Waterford (classic)
Train: Class 22000 ICR
Operator: Iarnród Éireann
Distance: 158 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Opened: 1854
Countries: Ireland
Curves south-west from Dublin through medieval Kilkenny to Waterford, Ireland’s oldest city, founded by Vikings on the tidal River Suir.
DART — Howth to Greystones (classic)
Train: Class 8500 EMU
Operator: Iarnród Éireann
Distance: 45 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Opened: 1984
Countries: Ireland
Ireland’s only electrified railway, hugging Dublin Bay from the Howth peninsula past Killiney’s Irish Riviera to Greystones since 1984.
Belfast–Derry Line — Belfast to Derry (scenic)
Train: Class 4000 DMU
Operator: NI Railways
Distance: 154 km
Top speed: 145 km/h
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Opened: 1852
Countries: United Kingdom
Michael Palin called the Coleraine–Derry run one of the world’s most beautiful; the train skims the Atlantic strand below cliff-top Mussenden Temple.