Train Bucket List

Tea gardens, the toy train and Kangchenjunga at sunrise from Tiger Hill.

The end of the Trans-Siberian, a hilly Pacific port with cable-stayed bridges and Korean-Russian food.

Narrow-gauge railway round the island.

Italian-era steam railway to the highlands.

Ride one of the world's longest trains.

The highest peak in Wales — walk up, or take the rack railway.

One of only three Jacobean mansions left in the Americas, still a working sugar plantation with its own rum distillery and steam railway.

Seven hours of tea plantations, waterfalls and the Nine Arches Bridge from an open train door — often called the world’s most beautiful railway.

An underground train runs into 24 km of dripstone halls, home of the blind olm salamander.

Rattle along old rails on a bamboo platform powered by a motorbike engine — dismantled when another train comes.

Switchback railway descending a near-vertical Andean wall at Alausi.

Rusting steam locomotives abandoned on the edge of the salt flats a century ago — a surreal stop on the way to the Salar.

The El Chepe train climbs 2,400 metres through 86 tunnels and 37 bridges across a canyon system deeper than the Grand Canyon.

UNESCO-listed alpine railway over the Bernina Pass from Chur to Tirano.

The Death Railway bridge built by Allied prisoners of war in 1943, still crossed by trains today.

Train to the "Top of Europe".

JR Central’s rail museum with 39 real trains, from steam engines to the 603 km/h maglev record-holder, plus driving simulators.