The corpus
The rail vacation market in numbers
Best Train Tour tracks 4,408 rail vacations from 79 operators across 89 countries. Every number on this page is computed from extracted operator records, never estimated. Latest capture: 2026-07-04.
- Rail vacations tracked
- 4,408
- every one extracted from an operator site, none estimated
- Operators
- 79
- from national railroads to two-person specialists
- Countries crossed
- 89
- with at least three trips each
- Named trains
- 548
- appearing in two or more packaged vacations
- Median from-price
- $2,537
- across 3,984 priced trips, USD at capture-date rates
- Median price per day
- $301
- 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
- 2,800
- full daily routings extracted and published
- Editorially enriched
- 1,768
- trips with grounded Trip DNA (growing daily)
Where these numbers come from
Each trip record is extracted from the operator's own product page: name, itinerary, prices, departures, hotels, trains, inclusions. Prices shown in USD are converted once, at the exchange rate on the capture date, and each trip page shows when it was last verified. Trips we could not verify are not counted, and there are no modelled or estimated records in the corpus. The full method. Machine-readable access: API and feeds for AI assistants.