We now have an interactive map of Europe on our site to help with travel planning. This is a long overdue feature to our website, but we’re glad to finally bring you our first comprehensive European rail map, representing all train lines including high speed rail and regional networks.
We strove to provide you with the highest level of detail and accuracy and we certainly hope you’ll find this tool helpful in planning your next trip to Europe. We really think this map is one of kind and we spent countless hours aggregating geographical data from multiple sources in order to paint a comprehensive picture of the extent of the European rail network.
This should help you figure out the many destinations that you can reach across 50 countries and inspire you to see more of Europe than you thought was possible.
Here are some sample travel time for some of our flagship routes:
- Paris to London is only 2 hrs 15 minutes
- Paris to Brussels is only 1hr 17 minute
- London to Brussels is only 1 hr 51 minutes
This map is a first iteration and we are looking forward to bringing more enhancements and functionalities in the future. In the meantime, give our map a test run and tell us what you think or what you would like to see from the interactive map of Europe. Please let us know how you use maps for planning your trip to Europe and give us some feedback!
So, zoom in and zoom out to your heart’s desire and learn about new cities that you had never heard of before and see how many destinations are accessible by train. Follow this link to visit our new interactive rail map.
Tags: High Speed Trains, Interactive Maps, london, Map of Europe, paris, rail travel, train travel, travel
On the URL called: “http://blog.raileurope.com/europe-travel-tips/new-interactive-map-of-europe-is-here” of which this “Leave a Reply” forms part contains a link titled “Follow this link to visit our new interactive rail map” takes me to a page for booking rail travel which doesn’t appear to have any link to a map.
Am I doing this correctly, or is it a simple matter of your web site not working properly?
I am interested in finding a train that will take me from Reims (France) to Zurich that does not have to return west to Paris.
Thanks and regards
The interactive guides provide site users with an idea of where trains travel in Europe. Just doing a search, I don’t think you’ll find a direct train from Reims to Zurich. The best route would be from Reims to Paris via high-speed TGV, and then connect to the Lyria, another high-speed service, from Paris to Zurich. In total, it’s about a 5 hour 15 minute train ride. You can search for schedules by visiting: http://www.raileurope.com/us/rail/point_to_point/triprequest.htm. Simply enter your departure and arrival cities, dates and travel time, and our system will search out the schedules for you. Hope that helps, please let me know if you need additional assistance!
An interactive map, showing the point-to-point high speed, regional and local rail lines is sorely needed. This “interactive map” isn’t even close to a response to this need. It is simply a static map of a Frommers guide page, only zooming to a level that shows all rail lines in red, but with no display of continuous rail lines to decide how to construct unusual point-to-point service, for example that would avoid use of a Paris hub for France point to point service. In the mass of red lines there is no distinction between the separate railroutes/lines. There are certainly wasys to do this: either passive, by color, or interactive by highlighting the line/route when mouse hovering over it, or when clicking on one of the route cities.
For one of the better examples of a truly interactive map showing actual routes from clickable cities, see the ryanair.com interactive route map. For static maps that at least show the actual geographic route of a particular rail segment, see the db.de (German rail) site, using the “detailed route/map” view under specific rail schedules.
Will you be improving this to actually show point-to-point rail segments on the map? The Frommers map you show certainly doesn’t reflect a lot of thought — it’s basically a blow-up of a Frommers guide page. You can be more creative than that, can’t you?
Hi Don,
Thanks for your feedback!
We agree and are actively working on improving the functionality of our application. I want to bring to your attention that it is quite hard to gather accurate information for all European rail networks.
Your feedback was good and knowledgeable. Would you know of a similar map application for rail that we can benchmark against?
Thanks!