Train Travel Bucket List

Ride the Shinkansen, Japan's high-speed bullet train, experiencing speeds up to 320 km/h

Experience a journey on a night train, sleeping while traveling to a new destination.

Take a scenic train journey on the Glacier Express through the Swiss Alps, known as the world's slowest express train, covering 291 km from Zermatt to St. Moritz.

Travel in luxury on a historic train route across Europe

Take the world's longest train journey from Moscow to Vladivostok

A living Inca town with its original street grid and terraces, the train station for Machu Picchu.

Curved 21-arch railway viaduct made world-famous by the Jacobite steam train.

Green railway tunnel formed by trees arching over a working track.

Ride the overnight train to Paris and arrive in time for a classic French breakfast. Start with buttery croissants and strong coffee at a traditional cafe, then explore the city's morning charm along the Seine.

Colonial churches, the Inca mummies of the high-altitude museum and the Train to the Clouds.

The model city of parks and bus lanes, the glass Botanical Garden and the train to the coast.

Nine Arch Bridge, the train through the tea country and the hike up Little Adam’s Peak.

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

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

Narrow-gauge railway round the island.

Italian-era steam railway to the highlands.

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

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

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

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.

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

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