Discover the world's greatest train journeys
...and welcome to the Great Railway Journeys Magazine.
Trains are one of the most enjoyable ways to travel, a travelling style that makes you appreciate the journey.
A scenic train journey will guide you through the most beautiful places in the world, where you will find iconic places, thrilling adventures and mesmerizing landscapes.
Get to know them by reading our articles, dedicated to the world's greatest train journeys.
The world by rail
Curated journeys
Epic journeys in Asia
Qinghai–Tibet RailwayThe highest railway on earth — over a 5,072 m pass to Lhasa, in carriages that pump oxygen in because the roof of the world is too thin to breathe.
The Trans-Mongolian — Beijing to UlaanbaatarOne train a week, Beijing to Ulaanbaatar in thirty-one hours — including the border night when the whole train is jacked up and given wider bogies.
Reunification ExpressThe length of Vietnam on one metre-gauge line — thirty hours from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, and a pass where the track hangs above the sea.
Eastern & Oriental ExpressOne of the world's great luxury trains, in carriages that started life in New Zealand — four days out of Singapore into the Malaysian rainforest.
Most beautiful journeys in Central Europe
Glacier ExpressThe slowest express train in the world — and with good reason.
Bernina ExpressThe most spectacular way across the Alps — a little red train that climbs to 2,253 metres without a single cog, then spirals down to the palms of Italy.
Semmering RailwayThe world's first mountain railway, and the first ever made a UNESCO site — 41 km of 1850s stone viaducts still carrying ordinary trains.
The Elbe Canyon RailwaySixty-six kilometres along the floor of a sandstone gorge, with room for track on one bank only — so four stations stand across the water from their towns.
Best night train journeys
The Caledonian SleeperBoard at Euston, take a dram in the Club Car, and wake with red deer outside the window — one train that splits in the night into three for the Highlands.
The Car Sleeper — Vienna to SplitThree nights a week for barely three months a year, one train carries you and your car from Vienna to the Dalmatian coast while you sleep.
Bangkok–Chiang Mai SleeperThailand's great overnight train — twelve hours north to Chiang Mai, over the highest station in the kingdom and through a tunnel that took eleven years.
Cairo to Aswan SleeperAn overnight down the length of Upper Egypt — dinner, a fold-down berth, and the Nile sliding past the window from Cairo to Luxor and Aswan.
Still in steam
The Jacobite Steam TrainThe "Hogwarts Express" over the Glenfinnan Viaduct — a steam-hauled run from Fort William, below Ben Nevis, to the fishing port of Mallaig.
Harz Steam RailwayGermany's largest steam railway — narrow-gauge locomotives working hard up through the Harz forests to the cloud-wrapped, witch-haunted summit of the Brocken.
Furka Steam RailwayA railway that is taken to pieces every autumn so the avalanches cannot have it.
Wolsztyn · Scheduled SteamAn ordinary timetabled passenger train that local people use to get to work, hauled by a 1940s Mikado — widely called the last of its kind in Europe.