This article lists the longest passenger rail services that are currently scheduled and running directly between two cities. This list is not complete due to the complexity of various railway systems, their timetables and difference in schedule administration between countries. To keep the list simple, only services that are point-to-point direct between two cities are listed. Services that require railcar exchanges, coach changes, shunting or station transfers are not listed.

Top 50 train services, by distance

Longest train services, by country/region, within it

Table below lists trains operating nationally, within a country.

Africa

Egypt

South Africa

Asia

Central Asia

China

All services are operated by

China Railway China State Railway Group Co., Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the China, People's Republic of China. China Railway operates passenger and freight Rail transport in Chi ...

India

Indonesia

For simplicity, only train trips with milage over 850 km are shown

Japan

Russia

Including international trains through Petropavlovsk in

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. Correct as of November 2024. See main table for sourcing of all these services.

South Korea

All services are operated by

Korail The Korea Railroad Corporation () is the national railway operator in South Korea. It is branded as KORAIL () and changed its official Korean name () in November 2019. Currently, KORAIL is a public corporation, managed by Ministry of Land, ...

Taiwan

Thailand

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Europe

International services

Albania

All services operated by Hekurudha Shqiptare

Belarus

Belgium

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Ireland

All services operated by

Iarnród Éireann Iarnród Éireann, () or Irish Rail, is the operator of the national Rail transport in Ireland, railway network of Ireland. Established on 2 February 1987, it is a subsidiary of CIÉ, Córas Iompair Éireann (CIÉ). It operates all internal I ...

Italy

All services are operated by

Trenitalia Trenitalia Società per azioni, SpA is the primary train operator of Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government. It was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulati ...

Liechtenstein

These services are actually international, as they go between Feldkirch, Austria and Buchs, Switzerland. The indicated distance is between the first and last station in Liechtenstein.

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Only services within

European Russia European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russia, Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia ...

(i. e. west of the Urals) are listed in this subcategory.

Slovakia

Spain

All services operated by

Renfe Renfe (, ), officially Renfe-Operadora, is Spain's national state-owned railway company. It was created in 2005 upon the split of the former Spanish National Railway Network (RENFE) into the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias ( ...

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

All services are operated by

Via Rail Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via (stylized as VIA Rail), is a Canadian Crown corporation that operates intercity passenger rail service in Canada. As of December 2023, Via Rail operates 406 trains per week across eight ...

United States

All services are run by

Amtrak The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United Stat ...

South America

Argentina

Brazil

Oceania

Australia

New Zealand

Longest non-stop train services, by distance and country

Asia

China

India

Only trains with limited stops are listed below

Europe

France

Ireland

Sweden

North America

United States

Longest high-speed rail service

The

G403/4, G405/6 and D939/40 Beijing–Kunming high-speed train (2,653 km, 10 hours 43 minutes to 14 hours 54 minutes), which began service on January 1, 2017, is the longest

high-speed rail High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated railway track, tracks. While there is ...

service in the world. The previous record-holder was the likewise Chinese Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway at 2,230 km. Eurostar previously held the record for its London to Cannes route, which set a record of 1,421 km non-stop high-speed service in 2006 (prior to the opening of High Speed One) – this was however not a regularly scheduled service. Currently, the record holders outside China are the Thalys service from Amsterdam to Marseille, at 1,265 km in 7 hrs, 15 mins, and the Eurostar from London to Marseille, at 1,215 km in 6 hrs, 26 mins.

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