Railways the world forgot
34 closed, abandoned and vanished lines from 27 countries, each with its origins, heyday, closure and what remains today.
How it works
Four stops through lost rail
Open the archive, pick a line and follow it from the first spike to the last whistle.
See it then. See it now.
Drag the divider on any plate to compare a line in service with the place it became: a trail, a highway, a reservoir or a ruin.
Travel the timeline
Pick a period and the Atlas shows which lines were running, on Apple Maps or on a survey chart that works offline.
Keep your own archive
Save the lines that stay with you. A dossier read to the end is marked as studied, and your progress grows with every one.
Then / now
The same valley, a century apart
Every dossier carries two plates drawn by the app: an archive print of the line in service and a night view of the corridor today. Drag the divider to slide between them.
In serviceToday
The three fates
Every line ended differently
Each line is marked by what became of it — and drawn on the map in its own line style, so you can read it at a glance.
Gone from the land
Track and most structures are gone.
Pieces left standing
Sections or structures survive, in use or abandoned in place.
A second life
The corridor lives on as a trail, road, park or new line.
Inside the archive
Built like a catalogue, read like a story
Full dossiers
Origins, heyday, closure, stations and structures, and what remains — always in the same order.
Atlas & survey chart
Apple Maps when online, a built-in survey chart when you are offline.
Search & filters
Find a line by name, country or station. Sort, filter by fate and browse by shelf.
Your shelf
Bookmark lines and track how many you have studied.
Dark & light
A midnight emerald-and-brass look, with a paper variant for daytime reading.
Private by design
No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. Your shelf stays on your device.
34Railway lines
27Countries
1845–2020Years covered
From the catalogue
A few of the lines inside
Contact
Know a line we missed?
Questions, corrections or suggestions for the archive — write to mail@wingwright.click.
Step aboard the archive
Free on iPhone. Find the line you never knew you missed.
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