The catalogue
The rail vacation market in numbers
Best Train Tour tracks 3,756 rail vacations from 79 operators across 90 countries. Every number on this page is drawn from real operator listings, never estimated. Last checked: 2026-08-11.
- Rail vacations tracked
- 3,756
- every one taken from an operator's own site, none estimated
- Operators
- 79
- from national railroads to two-person specialists
- Countries crossed
- 90
- with at least three trips each
- Named trains
- 588
- appearing in two or more packaged vacations
- Median from-price
- $2,302
- across 3,448 priced trips, USD at the rate on the day we checked
- Median price per day
- $281
- 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
- 3,203
- full daily routings taken from the operator and published
- Editorially enriched
- 3,755
- trips with grounded Trip DNA (growing daily)
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 converted once, at the exchange rate on the day we checked, 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 catalogue. The full method. Machine-readable access: API and feeds for AI assistants.