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Welcome to this site dedicated to railway geography. These pages contain series of maps covering the passenger rail networks of Brazil, Canada and France. A new series on the United States is under construction.

These maps only show lines offering non-exclusively tourist passenger service, including all types of rail-based urban transport systems such as metros, tramways, light rail, etc. Some information on train frequencies and travel times is included but these data are only indicative and are given in a simplified form. For detailed information about timetables and prices, you may check the sites of the railway companies given at the bottom of each page.

Select a country to view the maps. You may have a look at the legend and information section below and at a list of some other sites of interest for rail maps enthusiasts. Comments, suggestions or corrections are welcome.

Brazil	Canada	France	United States

•	16 May 2012: The map of Toronto Area and Canadian regional maps were updated.
•	27 March 2012: Several regional maps of France were updated, notably that of Burgundy and Franche-Comté showing the new Rhin-Rhône high-speed line.
•	21 February 2012: New map of the United States Northeast.
•	17 November 2011: Map of Paris updated.
•	10 October 2011: New map of Carolinas and Florida, and map of São Paulo updated.
•	1 August 2011: New map of the Angers tramway.
•	24 July 2011: New map of the United States South; maps of São Paulo and Rio Area updated.
•	9 June 2011: New maps of the American Midwest and the Reims tramway.

Every map has its own legend describing rail lines shown on it. Common features to all maps are explained in the legend below.

The coloured background of regional maps indicates altitude. Depending on the scale, it is derived either from the GTOPO30 database of the Globe Project, which offers a resolution of 30 arcseconds (about 1 km), or from that of the space shuttle radar topographic mission (SRTM), whose resolution is 10 times higher. All details about how to use digital elevation models can be found on the excellent Terrainmap.com site. The backgrounds of urban area maps are satellite images obtained from NASA's OnEarth site.

Rail lines have been drawn using MapPoint maps and all operative details are taken from information published by the relevant transport companies, in most cases online.

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•	UrbanRail.Net The reference on metros, with detailed information on every metro system in the world.
•	Trainspotting Bükkes An excellent collection of railway maps covering all of Europe.
•	CityRailTransit Great maps of urban rail systems across all continents.
•	Rail Map Australia An excellent site of maps of Australian railways, which largely inspired the present site.
•	Steam Engine "IS" Thorough site about railways in the former USSR (don't miss the supermap).
•	Rail Transit Maps Maps of metros and regional rail systems in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
•	Rinbad Information on railway infrastructure and geography around the world.
•	JohoMaps Cartography site containing original maps of public transport of some large cities.
•	itransports.fr Dynamic mapping of rail transport in France.
•	Atlas des transports publics An atlas of rail and road public transport in France.
•	Carto.Metro Detailed track maps of public transport networks of European cities.
•	Kitayama Rail Pages Complete and thorough description of rail lines in Japan.
•	RailServe One of the largest directories of rail-related sites.
•	Fahrplancenter Information on train travelling in several parts of the world and a large offer in timetables and maps.

You are free to reproduce these maps for your personal use, but reproduction on other sites and commercial use are not allowed without the author's consent. The author of this site has no relation with any railway society, this site only uses publicly available data. No warranty is given for the accuracy of the featured data.

© May 2012

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