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The rail vacation market in numbers
Best Train Tour tracks 3,793 rail vacations from 73 operators across 81 countries. Every count on this page is drawn from operator listings; no record is modelled. Editorial estimates such as days by rail live on the trip pages, labelled as estimates, and are not counted here.
Data version 52622606c0. Catalogue generated 2026-09-13. Operator prices last read live 2026-09-12; trip details last read 2026-09-12; USD figures at ECB reference rates of 2026-09-11. A rebuild moves the catalogue date only and never refreshes a source check.
- Train tours tracked
- 3,793
- every record taken from an operator's own site; the count includes only listings whose own evidence confirms a train journey
- Operators
- 73
- from national railroads to two-person specialists
- Countries crossed
- 81
- with at least 3 trips each
- Named trains
- 624
- appearing in 2 or more packaged vacations
- Median from-price
- $2,432
- across 3,561 priced trips, USD at the rate on the day we checked
- Median price per day
- $297
- the honest comparison number across trip lengths
- Median duration
- 8 days
- range 1 to 80 days
- Longest journey
- 80 days
- Around Europe in 80 Days
- Day-by-day itineraries
- 3,339
- full daily routings taken from the operator and published
- Editorially enriched
- 3,793
- trips with grounded Trip DNA
- Prices read live
- 3,490
- from the operator's own page, latest on 2026-09-12
Where these numbers come from
Each trip listing is taken straight from the operator's own product page: name, itinerary, prices, departures, hotels, trains, inclusions. Prices shown in USD are a view of the operator's own price at ECB reference rates of 2026-09-11, and each trip page shows when its price was last read. Trips we could not verify are not counted, and no record in the catalogue is modelled; the only estimates are the labelled editorial fields on trip pages. The full method. Machine-readable access: API and feeds for AI assistants.