Ride the Kandy to Ella train

Colonial "Little England" among tea estates, with factory tours, cool mist and Horton Plains’ World’s End cliff.

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

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

Island castle at the meeting of three sea lochs — Scotland’s most photographed.

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.

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

Italian-era steam railway to the highlands.