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Brockenbahn — Wernigerode to Brocken (scenic)
Train: Class 99 2-10-2T steam
Operator: Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
Distance: 34 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 45 min
Opened: 1899
Countries: Germany
Metre-gauge steam still storms year-round to the 1,141 m Brocken — Goethe’s witches’ mountain, sealed off as a Soviet listening post until 1989.
Bayerische Zugspitzbahn — Garmisch-Partenkirchen to Zugspitzplatt (scenic)
Train: Rack railway
Operator: Bayerische Zugspitzbahn
Distance: 19 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 15 min
Opened: 1930
Countries: Germany
Germany’s highest railway — cogwheels from Garmisch past the Eibsee, then 4.5 km of tunnel to snowfields at 2,588 m below the country’s highest summit.
Centovalli Railway — Domodossola to Locarno (scenic)
Train: Panoramic railcars
Operator: SSIF · FART
Distance: 52 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: ≈ 2 h
Opened: 1923
Countries: Italy|Switzerland
Fifty-two km, 83 bridges and 31 tunnels between Piedmont and Ticino — chestnut forests, waterfalls and stone villages a hundred valleys deep.
Höllentalbahn — Freiburg to Donaueschingen (scenic)
Train: Breisgau S-Bahn EMU
Operator: DB Regio
Distance: 75 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h 30 min
Opened: 1887
Countries: Germany
Germany’s steepest main line climbs Hell’s Valley at 55 ‰ — through the Hirschsprung gorge and over the Ravenna viaduct into the high Black Forest.
Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland — Caernarfon to Blaenau Ffestiniog (scenic)
Train: Double Fairlie steam
Operator: Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways
Distance: 62 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 4 h
Opened: 1836
Countries: United Kingdom
The world’s oldest narrow-gauge railway company (1836) — double-ended Fairlie steam from Caernarfon castle through Snowdonia to the slate town of Blaenau.
The Jacobite — Fort William to Mallaig (scenic)
Train: Black Five steam
Operator: West Coast Railways
Distance: 67 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 2 h 10 min
Opened: 1901
Countries: United Kingdom
Steam over the 21 arches of Glenfinnan on the 1901 Mallaig extension — the working train that became the Hogwarts Express, white sands of Morar below.
Snowdon Mountain Railway — Llanberis to Snowdon Summit (scenic)
Train: Steam & diesel rack
Operator: Snowdon Mountain Railway
Distance: 8 km
Top speed: 12 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1896
Countries: United Kingdom
Britain’s only public rack-and-pinion railway, Swiss-engineered in 1896 — 950 vertical metres from Llanberis to the roof of Wales.
Train Jaune — Villefranche-de-Conflent to Latour-de-Carol (scenic)
Train: Z 100 yellow railcars
Operator: SNCF Voyageurs
Distance: 63 km
Top speed: 55 km/h
Duration: ≈ 3 h
Opened: 1910
Countries: France
The canary-yellow metre gauge of the Pyrenees — open-air cars over the Séjourné and Gisclard bridges to France’s highest station at 1,593 m.
Le Cévenol — Clermont-Ferrand to Nîmes (scenic)
Train: TER railcar
Operator: SNCF Voyageurs
Distance: 303 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 5 h
Opened: 1870
Countries: France
Down the Allier gorges on viaducts stacked over a river with no road — the Massif Central crossing the TGV era forgot, kept alive by sheer beauty.
Ligne des Hirondelles — Dole to Saint-Claude (scenic)
Train: TER Mobigo railcar
Operator: SNCF Voyageurs
Distance: 123 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: ≈ 3 h
Opened: 1912
Countries: France
36 tunnels and 18 viaducts swooping like its namesake swallows through the high Jura — stacked stone arches right above the rooftops of Morez.
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Briançon — Paris to Briançon (night)
Train: Corail couchette cars
Operator: SNCF Voyageurs
Distance: 860 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: ≈ 11 h 30 min
Opened: 1884
Countries: France
France’s southern-Alps sleeper — lights out at Austerlitz, blinds up in the Durance valley, arrival under the Vauban walls of France’s highest city.
Cinque Terre Express — Levanto to La Spezia (scenic)
Train: Rock double-deck EMU
Operator: Trenitalia
Distance: 30 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 30 min
Opened: 1874
Countries: Italy
Village-hopping between tunnels where Liguria’s cliffs meet the sea — Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore in half an hour.
Frecciarossa Milan–Venice — Milan to Venice (high-speed)
Train: Frecciarossa 1000
Operator: Trenitalia
Distance: 267 km
Top speed: 300 km/h
Duration: 2 h 13 min
Opened: 2016
Countries: Italy
300 km/h out of Milan, then Verona, Vicenza and Padua — finishing with the causeway glide across the lagoon to Santa Lucia’s doorstep on the Grand Canal.
Nightjet Munich–Rome — Munich to Rome (night)
Train: New-generation Nightjet
Operator: ÖBB
Distance: 1100 km
Top speed: 230 km/h
Duration: 13 h 58 min
Opened: 2016
Countries: Germany|Austria|Italy
Board after dinner in Bavaria, wake to Tuscan hills — mini-cabins and wireless charging on ÖBB’s newest sleepers, threading the Tauern by night.
Nightjet Zurich–Amsterdam — Zurich to Amsterdam (night)
Train: Nightjet sleeper
Operator: ÖBB · NS
Distance: 1000 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 11 h 15 min
Opened: 2021
Countries: Switzerland|Germany|Netherlands
Asleep along the Rhine, awake on the IJ — the 2021 revival that re-linked the Alps to the canals, sliding past Cologne’s floodlit cathedral at midnight.
Kyiv–Lviv Intercity+ — Kyiv to Lviv (classic)
Train: HRCS2 Hyundai Rotem
Operator: Ukrzaliznytsia
Distance: 575 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: ≈ 5 h
Opened: 2012
Countries: Ukraine
Launched for Euro 2012 and never stopped — the Hyundai-built Intercity+ keeps capital and Galicia linked across the steppe, through blackout and war.
Rantarata Coastal Line — Helsinki to Turku (classic)
Train: Sr3-hauled InterCity
Operator: VR
Distance: 193 km
Top speed: 200 km/h
Duration: 1 h 57 min
Opened: 1903
Countries: Finland
Finland’s two capitals, old and new, tied by a curving shoreline track — double-deck InterCities weaving through granite cuttings and birch-lined bays.
Lyntog Copenhagen–Aarhus — Copenhagen to Aarhus (classic)
Train: IC3 Lyntog
Operator: DSB
Distance: 330 km
Top speed: 180 km/h
Duration: 2 h 39 min
Opened: 1997
Countries: Denmark
Zealand to Jutland with no ferry — an 8 km tunnel and the 6.6 km West Bridge across the Great Belt made Denmark one rail country in 1997.
Sørlandsbanen — Oslo to Stavanger (classic)
Train: Type 73 tilting EMU
Operator: Go-Ahead Nordic
Distance: 598 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: ≈ 8 h
Opened: 1944
Countries: Norway
Norway’s south-coast main line, completed in wartime 1944 — inland through pine and moor, touching salt water only at Kristiansand and the Jæren flats.
Rørosbanen — Hamar to Trondheim (scenic)
Train: Type 93 Talent DMU
Operator: SJ Norge
Distance: 431 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: ≈ 6 h
Opened: 1877
Countries: Norway
The original 1877 inland route to Trondheim — diesel country through Østerdalen’s forests to Røros, the UNESCO copper town still timber-built and soot-dark.
Inlandsbanan — Mora to Gällivare (scenic)
Train: Y1 diesel railcars
Operator: Inlandståg
Distance: 1070 km
Top speed: 80 km/h
Duration: 2 days
Opened: 1937
Countries: Sweden
Two summer days up Sweden’s green spine — moose at the window and a trackside stop at the Arctic Circle, where everyone piles out for photographs.
Tren de Sóller — Palma to Sóller (scenic)
Train: Vintage wooden electrics
Operator: Ferrocarril de Sóller
Distance: 27 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 1 h
Opened: 1912
Countries: Spain
Varnished mahogany carriages from 1912 thread thirteen tunnels through the Tramuntana into Sóller’s orange-grove valley — Mallorca’s rolling time machine.
Crescent — New York to New Orleans (night)
Train: Amtrak Viewliner II
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 2216 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: ≈ 30 h
Opened: 1925
Passengers per year: 300000
Countries: United States
Heir to the 1925 Crescent Limited — Manhattan to the French Quarter past Blue Ridge foothills, midnight Atlanta and a dawn crawl across Lake Pontchartrain.
Cardinal — New York to Chicago (night)
Train: Amtrak Amfleet & Viewliner
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 1844 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: ≈ 28 h
Opened: 1977
Passengers per year: 110000
Countries: United States
Amtrak’s slowest way to Chicago and its prettiest — tri-weekly through Virginia horse country and the whitewater canyons of the New River Gorge.
Lake Shore Limited — New York to Chicago (night)
Train: Amtrak Viewliner II
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 1543 km
Top speed: 177 km/h
Duration: ≈ 19 h
Opened: 1897
Passengers per year: 350000
Countries: United States
Heir to the New York Central’s 1897 Water Level Route — up the Hudson at dusk, along Lake Erie by night, into Chicago with morning coffee.
Silver Meteor — New York to Miami (night)
Train: Amtrak Viewliner II
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 2235 km
Top speed: 201 km/h
Duration: ≈ 28 h
Opened: 1939
Passengers per year: 300000
Countries: United States
The Seaboard streamliner that opened Florida’s diesel age in 1939 — 28 hours from Penn Station to palm-lined Miami, still running nightly.
Texas Eagle — Chicago to San Antonio (night)
Train: Amtrak Superliner
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 2102 km
Top speed: 177 km/h
Duration: ≈ 32 h
Opened: 1948
Passengers per year: 300000
Countries: United States
A Missouri Pacific name kept alive from the Loop to the Alamo — with through sleepers to Los Angeles, one of the longest runs on the Amtrak map.
Amtrak Cascades — Vancouver to Eugene (classic)
Train: Siemens Airo (from 2026)
Operator: Amtrak / WSDOT & ODOT
Distance: 752 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: ≈ 11 h
Opened: 1998
Passengers per year: 800000
Countries: Canada|United States
Salish Sea beaches, Puget Sound ferries and Willamette farmland — the Pacific Northwest’s green corridor train, re-equipping with new Airo sets in 2026.
Adirondack — New York to Montréal (classic)
Train: Amfleet coaches
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 613 km
Top speed: 177 km/h
Duration: ≈ 11 h
Opened: 1974
Passengers per year: 90000
Countries: United States|Canada
Hudson castles, Lake Champlain narrows and border-country vineyards — widely called the most scenic day train in the eastern United States.
Floridian — Chicago to Miami (night)
Train: Amtrak Superliner
Operator: Amtrak
Distance: 3340 km
Top speed: 127 km/h
Duration: ≈ 47 h
Opened: 2024
Countries: United States
Born of a 2024 tunnel-works merger of two classic trains — one seat from Lake Michigan over the Alleghenies to Tampa and Miami, nearly two days aboard.
Grand Canyon Railway — Williams to Grand Canyon Village (scenic)
Train: Vintage Pullmans & F40 diesels
Operator: Grand Canyon Railway (Xanterra)
Distance: 103 km
Top speed: 64 km/h
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Opened: 1901
Passengers per year: 225000
Countries: United States
Since 1901 the painless way to the South Rim — vintage Pullmans roll across pine forest and high prairie to a log depot steps from the abyss.
Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad — Antonito to Chama (scenic)
Train: D&RGW K-36 steam 2-8-2
Operator: Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Distance: 103 km
Top speed: 24 km/h
Duration: 6 h 30 min
Opened: 1880
Passengers per year: 45000
Countries: United States
America’s highest steam railroad, 1880 Rio Grande narrow gauge — K-36 Mikados storm 3,054 m Cumbres Pass and teeter along the Toltec Gorge rim.
Mount Washington Cog Railway — Marshfield Base Station to Mount Washington Summit (scenic)
Train: Marsh-rack steam & biodiesel
Operator: Mount Washington Cog Railway
Distance: 4.8 km
Top speed: 10 km/h
Duration: 40 min
Opened: 1869
Passengers per year: 110000
Countries: United States
The world’s first mountain-climbing cog railway (1869) — still shoving trains up a 37% grade to New England’s stormiest, windiest summit.
White Pass & Yukon Route — Skagway to Carcross (scenic)
Train: Narrow-gauge parlor cars & steam No. 73
Operator: White Pass & Yukon Route
Distance: 109 km
Top speed: 32 km/h
Duration: 4 h 30 min
Opened: 1900
Passengers per year: 500000
Countries: United States|Canada
Blasted through gold-rush cliffs in 26 months (1898–1900) — 900 m of climbing out of Skagway on cantilever bridges, then along Lake Bennett to the Yukon.
Pikes Peak Cog Railway — Manitou Springs to Pikes Peak Summit (scenic)
Train: Stadler cog railcars
Operator: Broadmoor Manitou & Pikes Peak Cog Railway
Distance: 14 km
Top speed: 19 km/h
Duration: 1 h 10 min
Opened: 1891
Countries: United States
North America’s highest railway, rebuilt with Swiss railcars in 2021 — climbing since 1891 to the 4,302 m summit that inspired “America the Beautiful”.
Skeena — Jasper to Prince Rupert (scenic)
Train: Budd stainless-steel cars
Operator: VIA Rail
Distance: 1160 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 32 h
Opened: 1914
Countries: Canada
Two daylight days from the Rockies to the Pacific — Mount Robson, totem-pole country at Hazelton and the Skeena’s misty canyons, overnighting in Prince George.
Polar Bear Express — Cochrane to Moosonee (classic)
Train: Ontario Northland coaches
Operator: Ontario Northland
Distance: 299 km
Top speed: 80 km/h
Duration: 5 h
Opened: 1932
Countries: Canada
No road reaches Moosonee — Ontario Northland’s lifeline train rolls 300 km of spruce and muskeg to tidewater on James Bay, canoes and pickups riding along.
Tren Interoceánico — Salina Cruz to Coatzacoalcos (classic)
Train: FIT 3000-series diesel
Operator: Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec
Distance: 308 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 6 h 20 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: Mexico
The 1907 Tehuantepec route reborn in 2023 — ocean to ocean across Mexico’s narrowest waist, from Pacific salt winds to the Gulf refineries.
El Insurgente — Mexico City to Zinacantepec (classic)
Train: CAF Civity EMU
Operator: Gobierno de México (SICT)
Distance: 58 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 50 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: Mexico
Mexico’s 160 km/h interurban tunnels out of the Valley of Toluca — since February 2026 running the full 58 km into Observatorio in the capital.
Panama Canal Railway — Panama City to Colón (classic)
Train: F40 diesels & dome car
Operator: Panama Canal Railway Co. (APM Terminals)
Distance: 77 km
Top speed: 88 km/h
Duration: 1 h
Opened: 1855
Countries: Panama
The world’s first transcontinental railroad (1855) — an hour ocean-to-ocean beside the Canal locks, skimming causeways through Gatún Lake jungle.
Ferrocarril Central Andino — Lima to Huancayo (scenic)
Train: Coche turístico & clásico
Operator: Ferrocarril Central Andino
Distance: 346 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: ≈ 14 h
Opened: 1908
Countries: Peru
A handful of departures a year over the 4,783 m Galera tunnel — zigzags, 58 bridges and oxygen on tap aboard Earth’s second-highest railway.
PeruRail Titicaca — Cusco to Puno (scenic)
Train: PeruRail Titicaca coaches
Operator: PeruRail
Distance: 388 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 10 h 30 min
Opened: 1908
Countries: Peru
Ten leisurely hours across the altiplano from Cusco to Lake Titicaca — white-linen lunch and an open observation car over the 4,319 m La Raya pass.
Tren Patagónico — Viedma to Bariloche (night)
Train: Sleepers, pullman & cinema car
Operator: Tren Patagónico S.A.
Distance: 826 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: ≈ 19 h
Opened: 1934
Countries: Argentina
Friday nights out of Viedma — sleeper berths, a dining car and an onboard cinema crawl across the Río Negro steppe to the lakes of Bariloche.
Tren del Fin del Mundo — Ushuaia to Tierra del Fuego National Park (scenic)
Train: 500 mm-gauge steam
Operator: Ferrocarril Austral Fueguino
Distance: 7 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: 50 min
Opened: 1909
Countries: Argentina
The southernmost railway on Earth — a 500 mm steam line laid by Ushuaia’s prison labourers in 1909, now puffing into Tierra del Fuego National Park.
Expreso del Sur — Oruro to Villazón (night)
Train: Salón & ejecutivo coaches
Operator: Empresa Ferroviaria Andina (FCA)
Distance: 590 km
Top speed: 90 km/h
Duration: ≈ 15 h 30 min
Opened: 1925
Countries: Bolivia
Tuesdays and Fridays out of Oruro — past Lake Poopó’s salt shores to Uyuni by night, then down the quebradas to the Argentine border at Villazón.
Tren Santiago–Chillán — Santiago to Chillán (classic)
Train: CRRC EMU
Operator: EFE Trenes de Chile
Distance: 398 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 4 h 25 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: Chile
South America’s fastest scheduled trains — 160 km/h EMUs launched in 2023 sprint down Chile’s Central Valley past vineyards and snow-capped volcanoes.
Buscarril Talca–Constitución — Talca to Constitución (scenic)
Train: Ferrostaal buscarril railcar
Operator: EFE Trenes de Chile
Distance: 88 km
Top speed: 50 km/h
Duration: ≈ 3 h
Opened: 1915
Countries: Chile
Chile’s last country branch line, a National Monument — a little railbus threads the Maule river gorge to vineyards and hamlets no road reaches.
Trem do Corcovado — Rio de Janeiro to Corcovado (scenic)
Train: Swiss rack EMU
Operator: Trem do Corcovado
Distance: 3.8 km
Top speed: 15 km/h
Duration: 20 min
Opened: 1884
Passengers per year: 600000
Countries: Brazil
Brazil’s first electrified railway (1884) — a rack train climbing 700 m through Tijuca rainforest to Christ the Redeemer above Rio.
Estrada de Ferro Carajás — São Luís to Parauapebas (classic)
Train: CRRC coaches (2025 fleet)
Operator: Vale
Distance: 892 km
Top speed: 80 km/h
Duration: ≈ 16 h
Opened: 1985
Passengers per year: 400000
Countries: Brazil
One of the world’s great everyday long hauls — 16 hours through Amazon-edge towns, sharing rails with 300-plus-wagon iron-ore trains bound for Carajás.
Tren de la Sabana — Bogotá to Zipaquirá (scenic)
Train: Steam-hauled heritage coaches
Operator: Turistren
Distance: 53 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: 2 h
Opened: 1992
Countries: Colombia
Weekend steam across the Bogotá savanna — brass-era locomotives and papayera bands rolling to Zipaquirá’s underground Salt Cathedral.
Howrah Rajdhani — New Delhi to Kolkata (night)
Train: LHB Rajdhani rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 1447 km
Top speed: 130 km/h
Duration: ≈ 17 h
Opened: 1969
Countries: India
India’s first Rajdhani (1969) — the all-air-conditioned overnight flagship racing the Grand Chord from the capital to Kolkata, dinner and bedrolls at your berth.
Bhopal Vande Bharat — New Delhi to Bhopal (high-speed)
Train: Vande Bharat EMU
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 702 km
Top speed: 160 km/h
Duration: 7 h 30 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: India
India’s fastest timetabled train — a home-built Vande Bharat touching 160 km/h past Agra and Gwalior, capital to Bhopal in seven and a half hours.
Deccan Queen — Mumbai to Pune (classic)
Train: WAP-7 · LHB rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 192 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 3 h 10 min
Opened: 1930
Countries: India
Maharashtra’s beloved “Queen” since 1930 — India’s first deluxe electric express, still climbing the monsoon-soaked Bhor Ghat with the network’s last dining car.
Matheran Hill Railway — Neral to Matheran (scenic)
Train: NDM narrow-gauge diesel
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 21 km
Top speed: 20 km/h
Duration: 2 h 40 min
Opened: 1907
Countries: India
A 1907 two-foot-gauge toy train corkscrewing 21 km up to a car-free hill station — 281 curves, the “One Kiss Tunnel”, and monkeys pacing the carriages.
Maharajas’ Express — Delhi to Delhi (night)
Train: IRCTC luxury rake
Operator: IRCTC
Distance: 2400 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 7 days
Opened: 2010
Countries: India
IRCTC’s rolling palace — a week-long royal loop from Delhi through Ranthambore’s tigers, champagne breakfast beside the Taj, and evening prayers on the Ganges.
Island Express — Bengaluru to Kanniyakumari (night)
Train: WAP-7 express rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 929 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: 18 h 40 min
Opened: 1940
Countries: India
Kerala’s workhorse since 1940 — overnight from Bengaluru’s plateau down the palm-and-backwater coast to the subcontinent’s southernmost station at Kanniyakumari.
Golden Temple Mail — Mumbai to Amritsar (classic)
Train: WAP-7 · LHB rake
Operator: Indian Railways
Distance: 1890 km
Top speed: 110 km/h
Duration: ≈ 32 h
Opened: 1928
Countries: India
Born 1928 as the Frontier Mail to Peshawar — the Raj’s most glamorous train still runs daily, Mumbai to the Golden Temple’s city, 1,890 km up the map.
Green Line Express — Karachi to Islamabad (night)
Train: AC sleeper rake
Operator: Pakistan Railways
Distance: 1515 km
Top speed: 105 km/h
Duration: ≈ 22 h
Opened: 2015
Countries: Pakistan
Pakistan’s premium flagship since 2015 — 22 hours up the Indus valley from Karachi’s sea air to Islamabad’s Margalla foothills, meals and bedding included.
Khyber Mail — Karachi to Peshawar (night)
Train: Mail sleeper rake
Operator: Pakistan Railways
Distance: 1732 km
Top speed: 105 km/h
Duration: ≈ 32 h
Opened: 1920
Countries: Pakistan
Rolling since 1920 and named for the pass beyond Peshawar — Pakistan’s grand old mail train, two nights along the Indus, a lounge diner added in 2024.
Sonar Bangla Express — Dhaka to Chattogram (classic)
Train: INKA air-con rake
Operator: Bangladesh Railway
Distance: 321 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 4 h 55 min
Opened: 2016
Countries: Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s premier near-non-stop — Dhaka to the port city of Chattogram in under five hours aboard Indonesian-built carriages with airline-style catering.
Cox’s Bazar Express — Dhaka to Cox’s Bazar (night)
Train: Hyundai Rotem coaches
Operator: Bangladesh Railway
Distance: 551 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 8 h 20 min
Opened: 2023
Countries: Bangladesh
Opened 2023 to the world’s longest natural beach — an overnight glide from Dhaka to a seashell-shaped terminus a rickshaw ride from the surf.
Janakpur Railway — Jaynagar to Bijalpura (classic)
Train: Nepal Railways DEMU
Operator: Nepal Railways
Distance: 52 km
Top speed: 80 km/h
Duration: ≈ 2 h
Opened: 2022
Countries: India|Nepal
Nepal’s only passenger railway, reborn in 2022 — a crimson DEMU ferrying pilgrims across the border plain from Jaynagar to Sita’s temple city of Janakpur.
Ruhunu Kumari — Colombo to Matara (scenic)
Train: Class S12 DMU
Operator: Sri Lanka Railways
Distance: 158 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 3 h 50 min
Opened: 1955
Countries: Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s first intercity express (1955) — hugging the Indian Ocean so closely between Colombo and Galle that spray from the breakers reaches the footboards.
Yangon Circular Railway — Yangon to Yangon (classic)
Train: RBE railcars (ex-JR)
Operator: Myanma Railways
Distance: 46 km
Top speed: 40 km/h
Duration: ≈ 3 h
Opened: 1954
Countries: Myanmar
A 46 km loop through Yangon life — monks, hawkers and vegetable baskets aboard ex-Japanese railcars, three unhurried hours for pocket change.
Bangkok–Vientiane Express — Bangkok to Vientiane (night)
Train: SRT through sleeper
Operator: State Railway of Thailand
Distance: 647 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: 11 h 40 min
Opened: 2024
Countries: Thailand|Laos
Since July 2024 the sleeper rolls straight across the Mekong Friendship Bridge — asleep past Ayutthaya, awake in Laos: the first direct rails into Vientiane.
Hat Yai Special Express — Bangkok to Hat Yai (night)
Train: CNR sleeper
Operator: State Railway of Thailand
Distance: 945 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: ≈ 16 h
Opened: 1918
Countries: Thailand
Thailand’s southern flagship — 945 km down the Kra Isthmus past Hua Hin’s royal station and Surat Thani’s ferry piers, the sleeper gateway to Malaysia.
Royal Railway Southern Line — Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville (classic)
Train: Refurbished railcar sets
Operator: Royal Railway
Distance: 264 km
Top speed: 60 km/h
Duration: 5 h 40 min
Opened: 1969
Countries: Cambodia
Weekend trains on Cambodia’s 1960s line to the sea, revived in 2016 — through Takeo and Kampot’s pepper country to Sihanoukville’s beaches.
Ekspres Rakyat Timuran — Johor Bahru to Tumpat (night)
Train: KTM Class 26 sleeper
Operator: KTM Berhad
Distance: 725 km
Top speed: 100 km/h
Duration: ≈ 17 h
Opened: 1931
Countries: Malaysia
Malaysia’s last sleeper — the overnight “Jungle Railway” threading rainforest, limestone gorges and sleepy kampungs from Johor Bahru to the Thai border.
Argo Bromo Anggrek — Jakarta to Surabaya (classic)
Train: INKA New Generation set
Operator: Kereta Api Indonesia
Distance: 725 km
Top speed: 120 km/h
Duration: 7 h 45 min
Opened: 1997
Countries: Indonesia
Pride of Java’s north coast since 1997 — Jakarta to Surabaya in under eight hours with two stops, now carrying KAI’s first Suite Class compartments.