mrfisk79Oct 20, 2024
Ivan Enderlin 🦀

Night Train Map in Europe (2024), https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/. This is an interactive map: each line is clickable and brings information about all the stops, schedules, frequency and the company operating this line. That’s pure beauty.

Combined with InterRail, it’s so much travel freedom and opportunities in Europe!

#train #NightTrain

Night Train Map 2026 – Back-on-Track

Oct 20, 2024 at 6:48amWeb
Show threadcafkafkOct 20, 2024
@hywan omg this is so cooooool
Show threadJan AdriaenssensOct 20, 2024
@hywan @girlonthenet Very nice! And those are only the *night* trains. There are high speed trains too, and regular intercity trains, and local trains to nice towns and villages… #trains #train
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@verbeeld @girlonthenet Correct. It’s purely about night trains only.
Show threadSargon Oct 20, 2024
@hywan its a pity spain’s been taking them out over time
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@sargontrek I heard it’s being discussed since many years but I don’t know what’s the current status.
Show threadSargon Oct 20, 2024
@hywan last time i checked theres madrid-lisbon and madrid-galicia(not sure what cities) , there used to be a Madrid paris…
Show threadJasperOct 20, 2024
@hywan really cool initiative! Too bad it’s so hard to use on mobile. Will have to check back on a bigger screen.
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@b0rn_dead It’s a disaster on mobile, agree. On a large screen, you also have to zoom the page, not the map, to get a better understanding. It’s a detail though, the database exists!
Show threadMark BurtonOct 21, 2024
@hywan @b0rn_dead
Brilliant and it really exposes the vandalism of night trains in Iberia particularly.
I can't zoom it at all on either laptop browser so adding a zoom button would be good, and probably easy.
Show threadrail [see pinned posts]Oct 20, 2024
@hywan I have this map on paper x)
Show thread agendered generator Oct 20, 2024
@rail_ @hywan of course you do rail
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@rail_ 💪
Show threadAndre WeissflogOct 20, 2024

@hywan some interesting landmass rendering issues where it's hard to decide whether it's a bug or intended ;)

(zooming in and out causes all sorts of similar issues - this is on macOS Chrome)

Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@floooh Climate change has provoked sea level increase, resulting in the disparition of some islands.
Show threaddavidOct 20, 2024
@hywan france disconnected from the rest of europe
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@davidou There are trains but very few night trains sadly.
Show threadeconadsOct 21, 2024
@hywan @davidou
There's Paris Berlin now!
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 21, 2024
@econads @davidou Then it might be interesting to ping the authors of this database, https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-list/, thoughts?
Show threadeconadsOct 21, 2024

@hywan
It's already on the screen shot if you look closely. Dotted dark pink is hard to see against the dark background.

@davidou

Show threadAndriy UtkinOct 20, 2024
@hywan Thanks! Amazing to see that Ukraine has them in the thickest bunches. I guess our trains are so slow and distances so large that night trains are so much more attractive.
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@autkin Possibly. Ukraine is a huge country too.
Show threadWattana's Place of BrainrotOct 20, 2024
@hywan this is straight up data porn. I LOVE IT.
Show threadIvan Enderlin 🦀Oct 20, 2024
@Atirut 🥹
Show threadBruno AdeléOct 20, 2024

@hywan Wow, it's beautiful 😍

The map is interactive, but is it generated dynamically?

I love railway-style , but I can't find a good tool to create them.

In a project dedicated to mapping bike lanes, I wanted to simulate railway-style maps (which support zoom) using QGIS, but I couldn't manage to do it.

https://github.com/badele/qgis-starter-kit/blob/master/styles/bike_path_metro/bike_path_metro.jpeg

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Show threadplatlasOct 20, 2024
@hywan Apart from UK, seems like Finland and Norway are on island as well.
Show threadDitolOct 20, 2024
@hywan
Ukraine. Just saying.
Show threadTagazielOct 20, 2024
@hywan
And the one connection that would interest me does not exist.
@rail_
Show threadrail [see pinned posts]Oct 20, 2024
@tagaziel @hywan out of curiosity: to where?
Show threadTagazielOct 20, 2024
@rail_
Poznan-Berlin
@hywan
Show threadJulian NyčaOct 20, 2024
@tagaziel @rail_ @hywan It's a bit too short a distance for a night train, isn't it?
Show threadrail [see pinned posts]Oct 20, 2024

@nyca @tagaziel @hywan kinda yeah

And there is plenty of connections between these two cities

Show threadTagazielOct 21, 2024
@nyca
Yeah, but I'm thinking of a night train that would get me from Poznań to the Franco-Spanish border or even Madrid. I'd like to have some rest, rather than keep flying.
@rail_ @hywan
Show threadGalder Gonzalez Oct 20, 2024
@hywan I took some Interrail like two decades ago and the night trains were way more than today.
Show threadJevOct 20, 2024
@hywan I hope they will be able to finish #RailBaltica soon!
Show threadMichael BrownOct 20, 2024
@hywan cries in Iberian Peninsula 😢
Show threadberndandewegOct 20, 2024
@hywan nice map! Can't wait for the Amsterdam Barcelona connection!
Used to travel to either Madrid or Barcelona by nighttrain quite often. Long ago...
Show threadmiska knapekOct 31, 2024
@hywan awesome work!
Show threadjoëlOct 31, 2024
@hywan This is not against the map, which is beautiful work, but it's really sad to see that Luxembourg is still a blank space there. I'm not that old and I remember taking a night train to Marseille for an internship.
Show threadJDSJan 26, 2025

@hywan @cobic aw nice! All we had in the late 80s was a tattered copy of “Let’s Go” Europe and a prayer there was an overnight train going somewhere when we got to the station 😍

Rail passes are the ultimate cheap hotel 🙌 Could daydream on that website forever.