Busiest Train Routes in the World

Route Rankings

These routes carry the highest annual passenger volumes, with the Tokaido Shinkansen alone transporting more passengers than most countries' entire rail networks combined.

#	名称	数值	描述
1	Tokaido Shinkansen (Tokyo–Osaka)	171M passengers/year	The world's busiest high-speed corridor with Nozomi departures every 3 minutes carrying 476,000 passengers daily.
2	Paris–Lyon TGV	44M passengers/year	France's original and most profitable TGV line, the backbone of SNCF's high-speed network since 1981.
3	Beijing–Shanghai HSR	38M passengers/year	China's most commercially important HSR route, one of the few high-speed lines globally to turn a profit.
4	Madrid–Barcelona AVE	11M passengers/year	Spain's busiest AVE route, which captured over 60% of the air-rail market share between the two cities.
5	London–Birmingham (WCML)	36M passengers/year	Britain's busiest intercity corridor on the West Coast Main Line, operated by Avanti West Coast.
6	Sanyo Shinkansen (Osaka–Fukuoka)	67M passengers/year	Extension of the Tokaido Shinkansen westward, connecting Japan's industrial heartland to Kyushu.
7	Seoul–Busan KTX	30M passengers/year	South Korea's primary high-speed route connecting the capital to the country's second city in 2.5 hours.
8	Taipei–Kaohsiung THSR	28M passengers/year	Taiwan's high-speed rail corridor running the length of the western coast in 1.5 hours.
9	Rome–Milan (Frecciarossa)	18M passengers/year	Italy's busiest intercity route with competing Trenitalia and Italo services running at up to 300 km/h.
10	London–Paris Eurostar	11M passengers/year	The Channel Tunnel rail link connecting two of Europe's largest cities in 2 hours 15 minutes.

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Ranked by annual passenger volume, using data from operator financial reports and government transportation statistics.

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单位	million passengers/year

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