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Welcome to this site dedicated to railway geography. These pages contain two series of maps covering the passenger rail networks of Canada and France. A new series on Brazil 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

•	17 November 2009 : New map of Maranhão – Pará.
•	1 November 2009: New maps of Fortaleza and Natal added.
•	18 October 2009: New map of Salvador added.
•	11 September 2009: Updates to the maps of Calgary (extension of Northwest line) and Vancouver (opening of Canada Line) (thanks to M. Buchanan and Y. Popov).
•	13 August 2009: As night trains in France increasingly tend to lose their daily frequency, all night trains have been removed from regional maps of France and are now separately represented on a new map of night trains. Two new TGV routes linking Normandy to Eastern France have been added (Le Havre – Strasbourg and Cherbourg – Dijon).
•	11 July 2009: New map of Porto Alegre. Maps of Mulhouse and of Toronto Area updated.
•	26 June 2009: New map of Brasília.
•	3 June 2009: New maps of Belo Horizonte and of the Vitória to Minas railway.
•	7 May 2009: New map of Recife and updates of the maps of Lyon (new line T4) and Edmonton (South light rail extension).
•	19 April 2009: New maps of São Paulo and its area, and several updates in maps of Eastern Canada and South West France (thanks to Y. Popov and Philippe).
•	22 February 2009: Correction in the number of trains on the Lyon – Grenoble line (thanks to P.-E. Mazaré).
•	7 February 2009: Several updates including - two new TGVs serving La Roche-sur-Yon and Les Sables-d'Olonne, - a new Corail train serving St-Lô, - significant service increase on the lines Strasbourg – Molsheim – Barr, Lille – Don-Sainghin – Béthune / Lens, Marseille – Aix-en-Provence and Cannes – Ventimiglia, Lyon – Bourg-en-Bresse, Paris – Montargis / Laroche-Migennes, - cadencing of the Paris-Montparnasse suburban lines, - closure of the Aulnoye / Maubeuge – Quévy and Gisors – Serqueux lines, - two extensions of the Bordeaux tramway brought into operation in 2008, - additional trains on the suburban lines of Montreal.
•	14 December 2008: Start of a new series of maps on Brazil. The first two maps cover Rio de Janeiro and its area. Maps of Western Canada updated to indicate longer travel times of the transcontinental train The Canadian.

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.
•	Australian Rail Maps 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 directory 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.

© November 2009

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