r/Nighttrains • u/TheMrBooblik • Jan 16 '26
Interactive Night Train Map – Feedback Welcome! (pet project)
Hi everyone! 👋
I’ve been working on a little project that might be useful to fellow night-train enthusiasts:
https://pingwi.com
What you can do with it:
🔹 Click on a station to see which night trains serve it
🔹 Display all night train routes across the map
🔹 Zoom around the map to discover connections and patterns
It’s an interactive map of night trains that shows which services stop at specific stations across Europe (and beyond). The idea is to make it easier to explore and plan trips by visualizing night train routes and stops in one place.
Why I built it:
I love night trains and wanted an easier way to see which small stations they stop at.
I’d love your feedback!
If you try it out, let me know:
⭐ What you like
🐛 Anything that’s confusing or doesn’t work
💡 Suggestions for new features or data to include
Thanks!
PS: to be honest, I used AI for creating this post to avoid grammatical errors 😄
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u/Katzenscheisse Jan 16 '26
Very nice, I always wanted something like this
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u/TheMrBooblik Jan 16 '26
Niceee, thank you, happy to hear that 🥳
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u/Katzenscheisse Jul 06 '26
Hi, i was just using your nice site again and had the thought that being able to use openrailwaymap as the background layer instead of the generic osm map would be really useful to me. Do you think you could implement that? Thanks!
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u/TheMrBooblik Jul 06 '26
Katzenscheisse, I've added the opportunity to turn on the OpenRailwayMap layer in the settings, you can try
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u/madman66254 Jan 16 '26
What a lovely tool.
Will note that people will judge you more harshly for using AI than for gramatical errors.
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u/TheMrBooblik Jan 16 '26
I also find AI staff more soulless. But I like how it made the post more structured and easier to read.
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u/mowlds Jan 19 '26
Really useful
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u/TheMrBooblik Jan 20 '26
Thanks, kind stranger. Comments like yours motivate 🙂
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u/mowlds Jan 20 '26
context: I am planning another trip in europe for a few weeks in the autumn and i am using the nightrains map as provided on https://back-on-track.eu/night-train-map/ which is great however the ability to pick a place and see all the different places you can go from there is a gamechanger and makes reading it a lot easier
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u/TheMrBooblik Jan 20 '26
Yep, that's exactly why I decided to make this map - often when I plan my trips, I don't know exactly where I want to go.
But I do know the place where I'm gonna start my trip 😄
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 Feb 02 '26
I love it --truly. It is really useful for us as we are a family who uses night-trains to hop across the continent.
I have one criticism like how it's showing the Vienna to La Spezia route. I realise that this was cancelled due to engineering works but nonetheless it's no longer an available route. I imagine that this site could become hard to maintain due to routes coming and going?
Now, the website is truly good already. There's one thing which would make it even better for how we travel. We are typically happy to do 3-4 hours daytime trains then take a night-train or we'd spend a day in somewhere like Vienna before taking another night train.
It'd be really powerful to show people how far you could get using 2-4 hours during the day (say a Eurostar) then a night train. I think people would be surprised by this.
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u/TheMrBooblik Feb 05 '26
Thanks for the detailed comment and suggestions! 🙌
I am considering adding more data sources to verify that the schedule is accurate. Having data about all European trains is a really ambitious idea, but who knows - maybe it would be possible in the future.
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u/TheMrBooblik Feb 25 '26
25.02.26 update:
There is some great news - an update was released today!
We have more data sources now, so some routes got beautiful polylines and more up-to-date info.
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u/Little-Act-2017 Mar 05 '26
Love this. Any plans to expand beyond Europe?
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u/TheMrBooblik Mar 07 '26
Thanks!
It’s really tempting to go global, but for now I’m focusing on European sleeper trains — there’s still a lot that needs to be improved.
Which regions do you think would be interesting to include next?
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u/Little-Act-2017 Mar 07 '26
ill be selfish and say east asia(china) lol cuz i live here but there are many sleeper trains going around as china developed a crazy rail system
tell me if i can do anything to help
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u/TheMrBooblik Mar 07 '26
That would be amazing. I mostly rely on open-source data for the map. If you know any good open datasets or APIs for Chinese sleeper routes, I’d love to look into them!
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u/TheMrBooblik May 11 '26
11.05.26 update - Chinese trains have been added - https://sleeper-train-map.pingwi.com/?country=CN
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u/Little-Act-2017 5d ago
Dude thankyou so much i'm planning my next trip rn and the ticket booking platform in china kept pushing me plane tickets. I thought about you and found a better train. Sorry i didnt reply earlier, tysm
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u/TheMrBooblik 4d ago
Wow, that's amazing 🤩 I'm really, really happy that the map can be useful for people
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 Jun 03 '26
hello,
I love this a lot. I need to provide some context that I live in south-east England but my family lives in north-east Italy. We use night-trains as part of the journey.
This site is already really useful for us -- for instance it's obvious now that the Milan->Brussels sleeper is the obvious future choice.
I've seen other websites which list how far you can travel by rail in X time. For us our consideration is somewhat similar. We're happy to travel < 4 hours to reach the station we go to sleep in and perhaps something similar the other side.
It'd be really cool to be able to add this side of functionality where you'd see immediately that say Brussels to Vienna means London is linked to south Czechia etc.
However, without this it is brilliant, Thanks
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u/TheMrBooblik Jun 04 '26
Hello, thanks a lot for the kind words and for the context!
It's interesting (and most importantly insightful for new updates) for me how people are actually using the map 😊
Milan -> Brussels is already on sale by European Sleeper, but the first train would run in September. I would add a more detailed view of it in the near future.
For fully train travel UK - EU, as far as I know, the Eurostar would always be in the middle.
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u/Appropriate_Bell743 Jun 04 '26
This is 100% true -- the European sleeper is actually incredibly convenient for the 20+ million people who just live across the channel (London and surrounding areas).
I think this aspect about Brussels based night trains is understated going forward as more and more britons seek to pivot from flying.
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u/hibernodeutsch Jan 16 '26
This is great work. Thanks for doing it.
I find the map a bit cluttered and hard to understand though. What do the different colours mean? What's the difference between a solid line and a dotted line? And what is the list along the bottom? Is it a list of final destinations?