Home›Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail Services›All Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesBrowse ByAll Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesReference and ClassificationDevelopingNamed long-distance and high-speed passenger train services, from classic transcontinental named trains through the dedicated high-speed lines that followed. Belongs here: any named intercity or transcontinental passenger rail service, conventional or high-speed. Does not belong here: urban and metropolitan rail transit lines, grouped under urban rail transit lines, or the locomotives and trainsets themselves, tracked as vehicle entities.FactsAll Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1830 CE 1All Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesFilter Results15 entriesOperational StatusAllActive (10)Active, 22 operational pairs of trains as of April 2025 (1)Active, 26 operational pairs as of September 2025 (1)Active, operating seasonally from October to April (1)Active, owned and operated by Belmond (1)Established EraAll1923 (1)1929 (1)1930 (1)1949 (1)1955 (1)1964 (1)1965 (1)1969 (1)1970 (1)1971 (1)1982 (1)1988 (1)1990 (1)1994 (1)2010 (1)OperatorAllAmtrak (2)Japanese National Railways (1)ExemplifiesAllHigh-Speed Rail (1)Intercity Rail (3)Narrow Gauge Railway (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 15Blue Train (South Africa)Long-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesCalifornia ZephyrLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesCoast StarlightLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesEurostarLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesGlacier ExpressLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesIndian PacificLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesMaharajas' ExpressLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesRajdhani ExpressLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesRocky MountaineerLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesRossiyaLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesShatabdi ExpressLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesThe CanadianLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesThe GhanLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesTokaido ShinkansenLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesVenice Simplon-Orient-ExpressLong-Distance and High-Speed Passenger Rail ServicesSources1. Wikipedia: Liverpool and Manchester Railwaytier 2WikipediaLiverpool and Manchester Railway, openingQuote, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, openingIt opened on 15 September 1830 between the Lancashire towns of Liverpool and Manchester in England.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.