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Argo Wilis — Bandung to Surabaya (scenic)
Train: Stainless-steel eksekutif rake
Operator: Kereta Api Indonesia
Distance: 696 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: ≈ 10 h 30 min
Opened: 1998
Countries: Indonesia
The great trans-Java day train — sweeping around the Lebakjero horseshoe beneath Priangan’s volcanoes, then along the southern rice plains to Surabaya.
Bima — Jakarta to Surabaya (night)
Train: Eksekutif night rake
Operator: Kereta Api Indonesia
Distance: 825 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: ≈ 12 h
Opened: 1967
Countries: Indonesia
Indonesia’s original air-conditioned night train (1967) — the “Biru Malam” still slips out of Jakarta at dusk and glides past Yogyakarta before dawn.
Tehran–Mashhad Express — Tehran to Mashhad (night)
Train: Fadak five-star sleeper
Operator: Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
Distance: 926 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: ≈ 11 h
Opened: 1957
Countries: Iran
Iran’s busiest corridor — five-star Fadak sleepers glide 926 km east past desert caravanserai country to Imam Reza’s shrine city of Mashhad.
Trans-Iranian Railway — Tehran to Khorramshahr (scenic)
Train: RAJA sleeper
Operator: Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
Distance: 937 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 15 h
Opened: 1938
Countries: Iran
The UNESCO-listed 1938 masterpiece paid for by taxes on tea and sugar — night trains spiral down the Zagros through a maze of tunnels to the Gulf plain.
Baghdad–Basra Night Train — Baghdad to Basra (night)
Train: CSR sleeper DMU
Operator: Iraqi Republic Railways
Distance: 550 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 8 h 30 min
Opened: 2014
Countries: Iraq
Iraq back on rails — since 2014 a Chinese-built sleeper DMU hums south past Babylon and the Euphrates towns, Baghdad to Basra by breakfast.
Etihad Rail — Abu Dhabi to Fujairah (high-speed)
Train: CAF intercity sets
Operator: Etihad Rail
Distance: 250 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Opened: 2026
Countries: United Arab Emirates
The UAE’s first passenger railway, launched June 2026 — 200 km/h out of Abu Dhabi and through Hajar mountain tunnels to Fujairah in 105 minutes.
Northeast Regional — Boston to Washington (classic)
Train: Amfleet I · Siemens ACS-64
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 735 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: 7 h 52 min
Opened: 1995
Passengers per year: 12018536
Countries: United States
Amtrak’s busiest train — over 12 million riders a year — racing the electrified Northeast Corridor at up to 125 mph without the Acela fare.
Vermonter — Washington to St. Albans (classic)
Train: Amfleet · GE P42DC
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 983 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: 12 h 40 min
Opened: 1995
Passengers per year: 115940
Countries: United States
One of Amtrak’s longest daytime runs; trains reverse at Springfield to swing up the Connecticut River valley into Vermont’s Green Mountains.
Downeaster — Boston to Brunswick (classic)
Train: Amfleet · GE P42DC
Operator: Amtrak · NNEPRA
Distance: 233 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: 3 h 30 min
Opened: 2001
Passengers per year: 598426
Countries: United States
Maine’s state-run link passed 10 million riders in December 2024, serving coastal Old Orchard Beach and the outlet town of Freeport.
Ethan Allen Express — New York to Burlington (classic)
Train: Amfleet · GE P32AC-DM
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 500 km
Top speed: 177 km/h
Duration: 7 h 35 min
Opened: 1996
Passengers per year: 85314
Countries: United States
In July 2022 it became the first passenger train to reach Burlington in 69 years, extending north from Rutland along Lake Champlain.
Maple Leaf — New York to Toronto (classic)
Train: Amfleet · GE P32AC-DM
Operator: Amtrak · VIA Rail
Distance: 875 km
Top speed: 177 km/h
Duration: 12 h 30 min
Opened: 1981
Countries: United States|Canada
The only Amtrak–VIA joint train: passengers clear customs at Niagara Falls, where the line crosses the gorge beside the thundering cataract.
Pennsylvanian — New York to Pittsburgh (classic)
Train: Amfleet · Siemens ACS-64
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 715 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: 9 h 15 min
Opened: 1980
Passengers per year: 236003
Countries: United States
Sweeps around Horseshoe Curve near Altoona — the 1854 engineering landmark that finally tamed the Allegheny grade.
Piedmont — Raleigh to Charlotte (classic)
Train: NCDOT F59PH · rebuilt streamliner cars
Operator: Amtrak · NCDOT
Distance: 278 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: 3 h 10 min
Opened: 1995
Passengers per year: 300000
Countries: United States
North Carolina’s home-grown corridor — the state owns the trains, a fleet of rebuilt 1960s streamliner cars, running four round trips a day.
Heartland Flyer — Oklahoma City to Fort Worth (classic)
Train: Superliner · GE P42DC
Operator: Amtrak · ODOT/TxDOT
Distance: 332 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: 4 h
Opened: 1999
Passengers per year: 80371
Countries: United States
Oklahoma’s only Amtrak train and the sole daily rail link into Texas, timed at Fort Worth to meet the Chicago–LA Texas Eagle.
Carolinian — New York to Charlotte (classic)
Train: Amfleet · Siemens ACS-64
Operator: Amtrak · NCDOT
Distance: 1133 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: 13 h 31 min
Opened: 1990
Passengers per year: 347360
Countries: United States
At 704 miles the longest state-supported route in the Amtrak system, swapping its electric locomotive for a diesel at Washington.
Wolverine — Chicago to Pontiac (classic)
Train: Siemens Venture · Charger
Operator: Amtrak · MDOT
Distance: 489 km
Top speed: 177 km/h
Duration: 6 h
Opened: 1971
Passengers per year: 438427
Countries: United States
Hits 110 mph on state-owned track between Kalamazoo and Dearborn — one of the few 100-mph corridors outside the Northeast.
Hiawatha — Chicago to Milwaukee (classic)
Train: Horizon · Siemens Charger
Operator: Amtrak · IDOT/WisDOT
Distance: 138 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Opened: 1971
Passengers per year: 631990
Countries: United States
The Midwest’s busiest corridor — seven round trips a day linking downtown Chicago and Milwaukee in about 90 minutes.
San Joaquins — Oakland to Bakersfield (classic)
Train: Siemens Venture · Charger
Operator: Amtrak · SJJPA
Distance: 507 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: 6 h
Opened: 1974
Passengers per year: 899903
Countries: United States
A Central Valley workhorse whose Thruway buses fan out to Yosemite, LA and the coast; over half of riders connect to a bus.
Capitol Corridor — San Jose to Auburn (classic)
Train: California Car · Siemens Charger
Operator: Amtrak · CCJPA
Distance: 270 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: 3 h 15 min
Opened: 1991
Passengers per year: 1138753
Countries: United States
Amtrak’s fourth-busiest route, hugging San Pablo Bay from Silicon Valley to the Sierra foothills; one daily train runs the full climb to Auburn.
Cass Scenic Railroad — Cass to Bald Knob (scenic)
Train: Shay geared steam
Operator: Mountain Rail WV · WV State Parks
Distance: 35 km
Top speed: 24 km/h
Duration: 4 h 30 min
Opened: 1901
Countries: United States
Home to the world’s largest fleet of geared Shay steam locomotives, grinding up 11% grades to Bald Knob, 4,842 ft — West Virginia’s third-highest point.
Verde Canyon Railroad — Clarkdale to Perkinsville (scenic)
Train: EMD FP7 · vintage coaches
Operator: Verde Canyon Railroad
Distance: 64 km
Top speed: 19 km/h
Duration: 4 h
Opened: 1912
Passengers per year: 100000
Countries: United States
Two 1953 FP7 diesels, once Alaska Railroad engines, thread a 680-ft curved tunnel and a red-rock canyon that shelters nesting bald eagles.
Napa Valley Wine Train — Napa to St. Helena (scenic)
Train: Alco FPA4 · 1915 Pullman cars
Operator: Napa Valley Wine Train
Distance: 58 km
Top speed: 29 km/h
Duration: 3 h
Opened: 1864
Passengers per year: 100000
Countries: United States
Guests wine and dine in restored early-1900s Pullman lounge cars behind vintage 1950s Alco diesels, rolling past Napa vineyards at a tasting pace.
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad — Bryson City to Nantahala Gorge (scenic)
Train: EMD diesel · Baldwin 1702 steam
Operator: Great Smoky Mountains Railroad
Distance: 71 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 4 h 30 min
Opened: 1988
Passengers per year: 200000
Countries: United States
The spectacular train-wreck scene in The Fugitive (1993) was staged on this line; the wrecked locomotive still sits trackside near Dillsboro.
Georgetown Loop Railroad — Georgetown to Silver Plume (scenic)
Train: 3-ft narrow-gauge steam
Operator: Georgetown Loop Railroad
Distance: 7 km
Top speed: 16 km/h
Duration: 1 h 15 min
Opened: 1884
Countries: United States
To gain 640 ft between two towns just 2 miles apart, the narrow gauge spirals over itself on the Devil’s Gate High Bridge — an 1884 marvel rebuilt in 1984.
Skunk Train — Fort Bragg to Glen Blair (scenic)
Train: GP9 diesel · vintage motorcar
Operator: California Western Railroad
Distance: 11 km
Top speed: 24 km/h
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1885
Passengers per year: 60000
Countries: United States
Nicknamed the “Skunk” in 1925 for its reeking gas railcars — you smelled it before you saw it — still winding out of Fort Bragg through the coast redwoods.
Mount Hood Railroad — Hood River to Parkdale (scenic)
Train: EMD GP9 · excursion coaches
Operator: Mount Hood Railroad
Distance: 34 km
Top speed: 32 km/h
Duration: 2 h 30 min
Opened: 1906
Countries: United States
Climbs the orchard-filled Hood River valley toward 11,240-ft Mount Hood, reversing up one of just five railroad switchbacks still in regular US use.
VIA Rail Corridor — Toronto to Ottawa (classic)
Train: Siemens Venture
Operator: VIA Rail Canada
Distance: 450 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 4 h 8 min
Opened: 1978
Countries: Canada
VIA’s new Siemens Venture trainsets made their Toronto debut on this Ottawa run in October 2024, cruising at up to 160 km/h.
VIA Rail Corridor — Toronto to Montreal (classic)
Train: Siemens Venture
Operator: VIA Rail Canada
Distance: 541 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 4 h 56 min
Opened: 1978
Countries: Canada
Rides the Grand Trunk main line of 1856, which once cut the Toronto–Montreal journey from five days to fourteen hours.
VIA Rail Corridor — Montreal to Quebec City (classic)
Train: Siemens Venture
Operator: VIA Rail Canada
Distance: 270 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 43 min
Opened: 1978
Countries: Canada
The quickest run reaches Québec City’s château-style Gare du Palais in about 2 h 43 min, tracing the south shore of the St. Lawrence.
Agawa Canyon Tour Train — Sault Ste. Marie to Agawa Canyon (scenic)
Train: GP38 diesel · coaches
Operator: Agawa Canyon Railroad (Watco)
Distance: 183 km
Top speed: 64 km/h
Duration: 10 h
Opened: 1964
Passengers per year: 30000
Countries: Canada
A 10-hour day trip 114 miles north into a wilderness canyon whose blazing autumn colours inspired Canada’s Group of Seven painters.
José Cuervo Express — Guadalajara to Tequila (scenic)
Train: Ferromex diesel · lounge coaches
Operator: José Cuervo · Ferromex
Distance: 64 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 2012
Countries: Mexico
Pours tequila and stages mariachi as it rolls through UNESCO-listed blue-agave fields to the spirit’s namesake town, Tequila.
Tren Francés — Havana to Santiago de Cuba (classic)
Train: CRRC coaches · diesel
Operator: Ferrocarriles de Cuba
Distance: 854 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 15 h
Opened: 1902
Countries: Cuba
Named for the ex-French TEE coaches France sold Cuba in 2000; Chinese-built cars now run this 854 km island-spanning line, often only every few days.
Nariz del Diablo — Alausí to Sibambe (scenic)
Train: diesel · tourist coaches
Operator: Ferrocarriles del Ecuador
Distance: 12 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 2 h 30 min
Opened: 1902
Countries: Ecuador
To scale the sheer “Devil’s Nose” cliff the line zig-zags up a Z-shaped switchback, edging forward then reversing; reopened in August 2025 after five years shut.
Ferrocarril Ezequiel Zamora — Caracas to Cúa (classic)
Train: CAF electric multiple unit
Operator: IFE
Distance: 41 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 31 min
Opened: 2006
Countries: Venezuela
Venezuela’s flagship modern railway bores through long mountain tunnels at 120 km/h to link Caracas with the Tuy-valley town of Cúa in just 31 minutes.
Tren a Mar del Plata — Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata (classic)
Train: CRRC coaches · diesel
Operator: Trenes Argentinos
Distance: 400 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 6 h
Opened: 1886
Countries: Argentina
Rails reached the great Atlantic beach resort in 1886; today Chinese-built coaches cross 400 km of pampas from Constitución, packed with summer crowds.
Tren de las Sierras — Córdoba to Cosquín (scenic)
Train: ex-CP railcar (Emepa Alerce)
Operator: Trenes Argentinos
Distance: 56 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 1889
Countries: Argentina
Revived in 2007, this 1889 line threads the Punilla valley past Lake San Roque, carrying refurbished ex-Portuguese railcars up into the Sierras de Córdoba.
AFE Tacuarembó–Rivera — Tacuarembó to Rivera (classic)
Train: Y1 railcar (ex-SJ)
Operator: AFE
Distance: 130 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Opened: 1892
Countries: Uruguay
Uruguay’s last passenger train — Swedish-built Y1 railcars rattle five days a week through the northern hills to the Brazilian border at Rivera.
Express InterCity Premium — Warsaw to Katowice (classic)
Train: Pendolino ED250
Operator: PKP Intercity
Distance: 298 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Opened: 2014
Countries: Poland
Poland’s fastest train, hitting 200 km/h on the dead-straight Central Rail Line (CMK) engineered for high speed back in the 1970s.
Express InterCity — Warsaw to Poznań (classic)
Train: EU44 Husarz + coaches
Operator: PKP Intercity
Distance: 311 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 35 min
Opened: 1921
Countries: Poland
Historic trunk line on the Paris–Berlin–Warszawa–Moscow corridor; the same rails carry the Berlin-Warszawa-Express onward to Germany.
IC Przemyślanin — Warsaw to Przemyśl (classic)
Train: EU44 Husarz + coaches
Operator: PKP Intercity
Distance: 395 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 5 h
Opened: 1861
Countries: Poland
Crosses Poland to Przemyśl, the southeastern gateway where standard gauge meets Ukraine’s broad gauge — handover point for Kyiv-bound trains.
Kraków–Zakopane — Kraków to Zakopane (scenic)
Train: EN76 Elf / IC coaches
Operator: PKP Intercity · Koleje Małopolskie
Distance: 147 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 2 h 45 min
Opened: 1899
Countries: Poland
Climbs from Kraków into the Tatra Mountains on the rebuilt line to Zakopane, Poland’s highest town and winter-sports capital.
SC Pendolino — Prague to Ostrava (classic)
Train: ČD Class 680
Operator: České dráhy
Distance: 356 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 3 h 7 min
Opened: 2005
Countries: Czechia
Czechia’s flagship tilting Pendolino links Prague with Moravia’s industrial capital Ostrava via the cathedral city of Olomouc.
RegioJet — Prague to Brno (classic)
Train: Astra / Bmpz coaches
Operator: RegioJet
Distance: 256 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 33 min
Opened: 2016
Countries: Czechia
Yellow open-access trains with steward service and free coffee — RegioJet broke the state railway’s grip on the Prague–Brno run.
Praha–Cheb Express — Prague to Cheb (classic)
Train: ČD Class 380 push-pull
Operator: České dráhy
Distance: 219 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 3 h 3 min
Opened: 1862
Countries: Czechia
Heads west through Plzeň, birthplace of Pilsner lager, to the spa-country town of Cheb near the German border.
Zubačka Rack Railway — Tanvald to Harrachov (scenic)
Train: ČSD Class 426.0 rack
Operator: České dráhy
Distance: 13 km
Top speed: 30 km/h
Duration: 35 min
Opened: 1902
Countries: Czechia
Czechia’s only cog railway, climbing the Jizera Mountains on an Abt rack at a gradient of 58‰ — a national record.
Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ) — Poprad to Štrbské Pleso (scenic)
Train: ŽSSK Class 425.95
Operator: ZSSK
Distance: 29 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 1 h 5 min
Opened: 1912
Countries: Slovakia
Metre-gauge electric cars climb to the High Tatra resort of Štrbské Pleso at 1,320 m, Slovakia’s highest railway station.
Balaton InterCity — Budapest to Siófok (classic)
Train: Stadler KISS
Operator: MÁV-START
Distance: 115 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1861
Countries: Hungary
Summer expresses to Siófok on the south shore of Lake Balaton, central Europe’s largest lake and Hungary’s beach playground.
InterCity Debrecen — Budapest to Debrecen (classic)
Train: Traxx + IC+ coaches
Operator: MÁV-START
Distance: 221 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 2 h 20 min
Opened: 1857
Countries: Hungary
Hourly InterCity across the Great Hungarian Plain to Debrecen, the nation’s second city, on the 160 km/h eastern main line.
InterCity Pécs — Budapest to Pécs (classic)
Train: Traxx + IC+ coaches
Operator: MÁV-START
Distance: 229 km
Top speed: 140 km/h
Duration: 2 h 40 min
Opened: 1882
Countries: Hungary
InterCity to Pécs, a sun-warmed city of Roman tombs and an Ottoman mosque near the Croatian border in southern Hungary.
Children’s Railway (Gyermekvasút) — Széchenyi-hegy to Hűvösvölgy (scenic)
Train: Mk45 + narrow-gauge coaches
Operator: MÁV-START
Distance: 11 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: 45 min
Opened: 1950
Countries: Hungary
A 760 mm line through the Buda Hills staffed almost entirely by children aged 10–14 — a Young Pioneer legacy still running today.
InterRegio Cluj — Bucharest to Cluj-Napoca (classic)
Train: CFR IR coaches
Operator: CFR Călători
Distance: 497 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 8 h
Opened: 1879
Countries: Romania
The long haul from Bucharest over the Carpathians via Brașov and medieval Sighișoara to Cluj-Napoca, heart of Transylvania.
InterRegio Timișoara — Bucharest to Timișoara (classic)
Train: CFR IR coaches
Operator: CFR Călători
Distance: 533 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 8 h 30 min
Opened: 1879
Countries: Romania
Follows the Danube past the Iron Gates gorge, then climbs to Timișoara, the Banat city where Romania’s 1989 revolution ignited.
Mocănița Vaser Valley — Vișeu de Sus to Paltin (scenic)
Train: O&K / Reșița steam
Operator: CFF Vișeu de Sus
Distance: 21 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 1933
Countries: Romania
The world’s last steam-hauled forestry railway still logging, chuffing up the wild Vaser gorge in Maramureș toward the Ukrainian border.
InterRegio Sibiu–Brașov — Sibiu to Brașov (classic)
Train: Electric loco + coaches
Operator: CFR Călători
Distance: 149 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 2 h 40 min
Opened: 1892
Countries: Romania
Runs beneath the Făgăraș Mountains, Romania’s highest, along the Olt valley between the Saxon citadels of Sibiu and Brașov.
BDŽ Fast Train Plovdiv — Sofia to Plovdiv (classic)
Train: Siemens Desiro EMU
Operator: BDŽ
Distance: 156 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1888
Countries: Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s busiest intercity corridor, being rebuilt for 200 km/h, tying the capital to Plovdiv, one of Europe’s oldest cities.
BDŽ Fast Train Varna — Sofia to Varna (classic)
Train: Siemens Desiro EMU
Operator: BDŽ
Distance: 543 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 7 h 30 min
Opened: 1899
Countries: Bulgaria
Crosses the Balkan range and the Danubian plain to Varna, Bulgaria’s summer capital on the Black Sea coast.
BDŽ Fast Train Burgas — Sofia to Burgas (classic)
Train: Siemens Desiro EMU
Operator: BDŽ
Distance: 458 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: 6 h
Opened: 1890
Countries: Bulgaria
Runs via Plovdiv and Stara Zagora to Burgas, the port at the heart of Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea beaches.
Rhodope Narrow-Gauge — Septemvri to Dobrinishte (scenic)
Train: 760 mm diesel railcar
Operator: BDŽ
Distance: 125 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: 5 h
Opened: 1926
Countries: Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s last 760 mm line threads 35 tunnels up to Avramovo, the highest railway station in the Balkans at 1,267 m.
Intercity+ — Kyiv to Kharkiv (classic)
Train: Škoda EJ675 / Hyundai HRCS2
Operator: Ukrainian Railways
Distance: 480 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 4 h 50 min
Opened: 2012
Countries: Ukraine
Ukraine’s flagship Intercity+ express, launched for Euro 2012, races across the steppe from Kyiv to Kharkiv via Poltava.
Intercity+ — Kyiv to Odesa (classic)
Train: Škoda EJ675
Operator: Ukrainian Railways
Distance: 585 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 7 h 20 min
Opened: 2012
Countries: Ukraine
Runs south from Kyiv through the black-earth farmland via the Znamianka junction to Odesa, the grand imperial port on the Black Sea.
Intercity+ — Kyiv to Dnipro (classic)
Train: Hyundai HRCS2 / Škoda EJ675
Operator: Ukrainian Railways
Distance: 480 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 5 h 40 min
Opened: 2012
Countries: Ukraine
Fast Intercity+ from Kyiv to Dnipro, the rocket-building metropolis on the mighty Dnieper in Ukraine’s industrial east.
Minsk–Brest Business Class — Minsk to Brest (classic)
Train: Stadler BKG1 EMU
Operator: Belarusian Railway
Distance: 346 km
Top speed: 140 km/h
Duration: 3 h 20 min
Opened: 1871
Countries: Belarus
Follows the old Moscow–Warsaw corridor to Brest, the fortress city on the Bug where Belarus’s broad gauge meets the EU frontier.
Minsk–Gomel Regional Express — Minsk to Gomel (classic)
Train: ЭПр Stadler EMU
Operator: Belarusian Railway
Distance: 302 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 4 h
Opened: 1873
Countries: Belarus
Links the capital with Gomel, Belarus’s second city near the Ukrainian border and the fringe of the Chernobyl zone.
Prietenia — Chișinău to Bucharest (night)
Train: CFM/CFR sleeper coaches
Operator: CFM · CFR Călători
Distance: 450 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 13 h
Opened: 2002
Countries: Moldova|Romania
Overnight Friendship sleeper whose coaches are jacked up for a bogie swap at Ungheni — Soviet 1,520 mm broad gauge to European standard.
Chișinău–Iași Cross-Border — Chișinău to Iași (classic)
Train: CFM D1M railcar
Operator: Calea Ferată din Moldova
Distance: 130 km
Top speed: 80 km/h
Duration: 3 h 30 min
Opened: 2021
Countries: Moldova|Romania
A symbolic cross-Prut service reopened in 2021, switching from Moldova’s broad gauge to Romania’s standard gauge at the Ungheni frontier.
Zhengzhou–Xi’an HSR — Zhengzhou to Xi’an (high-speed)
Train: CR400AF Fuxing
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 523 km
Top speed: 350 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 2010
Countries: China
One of China’s first mountain bullet lines, boring through the loess hills of the Yellow River valley to link Zhengzhou with the ancient capital Xi’an in about two hours.
Datong–Xi’an HSR — Datong to Xi’an (high-speed)
Train: CRH380A
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 859 km
Top speed: 250 km/h
Duration: 6 h
Opened: 2019
Countries: China
Runs the length of Shanxi from the Datong grottoes past walled Pingyao, crossing the Yellow River into Shaanxi to reach Xi’an.
Nanning–Guangzhou HSR — Nanning to Guangzhou (high-speed)
Train: CRH2A
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 576 km
Top speed: 250 km/h
Duration: 3 h 30 min
Opened: 2014
Countries: China
Follows the Xijiang (West River) valley out of Guangxi down to the Pearl River Delta, linking Nanning with Guangzhou.
Zhengzhou–Chongqing HSR — Zhengzhou to Chongqing (high-speed)
Train: CR400AF Fuxing
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 1068 km
Top speed: 350 km/h
Duration: 4 h 23 min
Opened: 2022
Countries: China
A 1,068 km route threading the Funiu and Daba ranges, cutting Zhengzhou–Chongqing from about eight hours to under four and a half.
Fuzhou–Xiamen HSR — Fuzhou to Xiamen (high-speed)
Train: CR400AF Fuxing
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 277 km
Top speed: 350 km/h
Duration: 55 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: China
China’s first 350 km/h cross-sea railway, vaulting three bays on the Taiwan Strait coast to link Fuzhou and Xiamen in 55 minutes.
Jinan–Qingdao HSR — Jinan to Qingdao (high-speed)
Train: CR400AF Fuxing
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 308 km
Top speed: 350 km/h
Duration: 1 h 40 min
Opened: 2018
Countries: China
A 350 km/h dash across Shandong from the provincial capital Jinan to the seaside beer city of Qingdao.
Hefei–Fuzhou HSR — Hefei to Fuzhou (high-speed)
Train: CRH380A
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 813 km
Top speed: 300 km/h
Duration: 4 h
Opened: 2015
Countries: China
Nicknamed China’s most beautiful high-speed line, curving past Mount Huangshan and the Wuyi Mountains through Jiangnan tea country.
Shitai HSR — Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan (high-speed)
Train: CRH380A
Operator: China Railway
Distance: 190 km
Top speed: 250 km/h
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Opened: 2009
Countries: China
Burrows under the Taihang range through the 27.8 km Taihang Tunnel, once China’s longest railway tunnel, to join Hebei and Shanxi.