World Train Map
Shares rank 8 of 26 interactive maps by recommenders
Curated free map of passenger train routes worldwide, praised for its design and ambition. Critics say coverage is incomplete, with missing routes in Europe, China and parts of North America.
Curated free map of passenger train routes worldwide, praised for its design and ambition. Critics say coverage is incomplete, with missing routes in Europe, China and parts of North America.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 13
- criticize it
- 6
- approval share
- 68%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 13 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Praised as amazing, intriguing, great work
“Amazing! Thanks for building this =)”
Comment from 13 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” “amazed and intrigued. great work.”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” Beautiful, user-friendly, fun to use
“a user friendly, working toy”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” “beautiful website, congrats”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Many routes missing in Europe
“It's definitely not complete, quite a few reasonably common passenger routes in Europe I know are missing.”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” “Košice-Prešov link is missing”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” Concerns about AI-generated map quality
“The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI.”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” “AI lets people produce things that look authoritative, but are crap”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world” “a highly inaccurate map is worse than not having such a "map".”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world”
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The four most recommended other interactive maps, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| isometric.nyc | 52 | 8 | 87% | 3 | — | — |
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| World Train MapThis page | 13 | 6 | 68% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
17 of the 22 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the first thing I looked for (Tren Maya) is missing half it tracks”
“Amazing! Thanks for building this =)”
“a user friendly, working toy”
“The goal of World Train Map is to have a good selection of almost all passenger rail routes around the world”
“beautiful website, congrats”
“Košice-Prešov link is missing”
“It has lots of detail about some VIA Rail routes in Canada and entirely misses others.”
“I was about to say the same thing”
“a highly inaccurate map is worse than not having such a "map".”
“at least by a quick glance, I think the coverage for China is very incomplete”
“The map is ok, but mostly I'm interested in the number of map apps people are cranking out with AI.”
“This is missing just about all of the short lines in America.”
“AI lets people produce things that look authoritative, but are crap”
“amazed and intrigued. great work.”
“World Train Map is, by design, a curated map of interesting passenger trains, not a comprehensive map.”
“It's definitely not complete, quite a few reasonably common passenger routes in Europe I know are missing.”
“That map shows 224 nodes in the world, fewer than 30 in the entire Western hemisphere.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.