Rail Journeys
Audio guides for scenic trains
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your window seat just got a voice.
Rail Journeys plays professionally narrated stories automatically as your train travels — triggered by GPS, exactly when the landscape outside your window matters. As you pass remarkable mountains, engineering landmarks, historic towns, rivers, and famous viewpoints, the right story starts at the right moment. No tapping, no maps, no guesswork. Just look out the window and listen.
THE WORLD'S MOST SCENIC TRAIN JOURNEYS
• California Zephyr — Emeryville to Chicago across the Sierra and the Rockies
• Coast Starlight — Los Angeles to Seattle along the entire West Coast
• Empire Builder — Chicago to Seattle on the historic Great Northern route
• Rocky Mountaineer — Vancouver to Banff through the Canadian Rockies
• Bernina Express — the UNESCO-listed Alpine crossing
• Glacier Express — Zermatt to St. Moritz across the Swiss Alps
• Bergen Line — over the roof of Norway
• West Highland Line — Glasgow to Mallaig through the Scottish Highlands
• TranzAlpine — coast to coast across New Zealand's Southern Alps
• Coastal Pacific — New Zealand's dramatic Pacific coastline
• The Ghan — Adelaide to Darwin through Australia's Red Centre
HOW IT WORKS
1. Download your journey before you board — audio, stories, and route included
2. Board the train and start your ride
3. Stories play automatically as you travel, in either direction of travel
BUILT FOR REAL TRAIN TRAVEL
• Works fully offline — no signal needed once your journey is downloaded, even in tunnels and remote mountain passes
• Direction-aware — ride eastbound or westbound, the narration adapts
• Keeps playing with your phone locked and in your pocket
• Know what's coming — next stops, progress, and points of interest along the way
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Every journey includes free preview stories and a video preview, so you can hear the narration style and see the route before purchasing.
SIMPLE, FAIR PRICING
The app is free. Each journey is a one-time purchase — yours forever, no subscription, no ads, no account required. Frequent traveler? The Rail Journeys Pass unlocks every journey, including all future releases.
CAREFULLY RESEARCHED
Every story is researched, fact-checked, and reviewed. History, geology, engineering, and local legend — told at the moment you can see it.
A smaller app, and the fixes from this round of testing.
Share a journey, or rate the app, when you reach your destination.
Fixed: stories in a journey you own now play from the story list once the journey is downloaded.
Fixed: the introduction before a ride can be closed without starting the ride.
New: anonymous usage statistics help us see which journeys to improve. Switch them off any time in Help.
The developer, SARAL GUPTA, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- SARAL GUPTA
- Size
- 220.7 MB
- Category
- Travel
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Location
- This app may use your location even when it isn’t open, which can decrease device battery life.
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Empire Builder $4.99
- Coast Starlight $4.99
- West Highland Line $4.99
- TranzAlpine $4.99
- Coastal Pacific $4.99
- Rocky Mountaineer $4.99
- Bergen Line $4.99
- The Ghan $4.99
- Glacier Express $4.99
- Rail Journeys Pass $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Saral Gupta