Rail Journeys of a Lifetime is a GPS audio guide for scenic rail travel. As your train moves, the guide quietly follows along and plays each story exactly when you reach the place it happened. No searching, no timetables to follow, no signal required. Hands-free, screen locked, and fully offline once downloaded.
This playlist is a two-minute look at each route: what you'll see, where the line was carved through something that should have stopped it, and why these journeys are worth taking slowly.
THE JOURNEYS
North America
• California Zephyr — Chicago ↔ San Francisco Bay, 52 hours across 7 states, over Donner Pass and under the Continental Divide
• Empire Builder — Chicago ↔ Seattle & Portland, 46 hours along the Hi-Line and Glacier National Park
• Coast Starlight — Los Angeles ↔ Seattle, two days of Pacific coastline, Cascade forest and Puget Sound
• Rocky Mountaineer — Vancouver ↔ Banff, two daylight days through the Canadian Rockies
Europe
• Glacier Express — Zermatt ↔ St. Moritz, the slowest express in the world, 8 hours across the Swiss Alps
• Bernina Express — Chur ↔ Tirano, spiral viaducts and glaciers on a UNESCO World Heritage line
• Bergen Line — Oslo ↔ Bergen, 7 hours over the Hardangervidda plateau to the fjords
• West Highland Line — Glasgow ↔ Mallaig, past Loch Shiel and the Glenfinnan Viaduct
Southern Hemisphere
• TranzAlpine — Christchurch ↔ Greymouth, coast to coast across New Zealand's Southern Alps
• Coastal Pacific — Picton ↔ Christchurch, mountains on one side, the Pacific on the other
• The Ghan — Adelaide ↔ Darwin, three days and two nights through the heart of Australia
HOW IT WORKS
Choose your journey, press start, and put your phone away. The guide finds your direction automatically and works in both directions of travel. Stories play when you reach each place, and when the landscape says everything on its own, it lets the silence speak.
The app is free. Each journey guide is a one-time purchase, with an all-journeys pass for travellers who plan to take more than one.
Learn more at railjourneysofalifetime.com
iOS:
railjourneysofalifetime.com/ios
Android:
railjourneysofalifetime.com/android
All journeys are operated by the railways named. Rail Journeys of a Lifetime is an independent audio guide and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any railway operator.
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