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The Ghan travelling through Australia’s outback
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Journey Guides

Curated ways to connect a few remarkable rail journeys into one bigger travel idea.

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Journey Guides

Curated ways to connect a few remarkable rail journeys into one bigger travel idea.

Journey guides

A few journeys, one bigger trip idea

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A red Bernina Express curving beneath glacier-covered peaks near Morteratsch
Photo: Stefans Pixmix · CC BY-SA 4.0

A high-alpine rail week

Swiss Panoramic Railways

Three distinct ways to experience the Swiss Alps: lakeside valleys, a long central crossing, and the high Bernina Pass.

GoldenPass Express → Glacier Express → Bernina ExpressOpen guide
Red Flåm Railway carriages waiting between steep dark mountains at Myrdal
Photo: Jorge Láscar · CC BY 2.0

A Bergen and Flåm pairing

Norway: Mountain to Fjord

Cross Norway’s high plateau on the Bergen Line, then descend on the separate Flåm Railway from the mountain interchange at Myrdal.

Bergen Line → Rauma Line → Flåm RailwayOpen guide
A Cinque Terre regional train emerging from a tunnel beside Corniglia station
Photo: Remontees · CC BY-SA 4.0

Mountain engineering to Mediterranean coast

Alps to the Riviera

Pair a mountain railway of tunnels and stone villages with a short coastal line that threads through Cinque Terre.

Train des Merveilles → Cinque TerreOpen guide
The Ghan travelling through Australia’s outback
Photo: RegionVisitor90 · Public domain (CC0)

Long-form rail journeys

Great Rail Crossings

A collection of large-scale crossings where the changing landscape is the point of the journey, not simply the route between cities.

TranzAlpine → California Zephyr → The Ghan → Madaraka ExpressOpen guide
A Kalka–Shimla Railway train at Shimla
Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg · CC BY 4.0

Four distinct mountain and coast journeys

Asian Rail Landscapes

From the East Rift Valley to Himalayan foothills, these journeys show how railways meet forest, monsoon country, coast, and mountain terrain across Asia.

Reunification Express → East Rift Valley Railway → Kuranda Scenic Railway → Kalka–Shimla RailwayOpen guide