# European cities by rail connectivity **Published by:** [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/) **Published on:** 2016-11-21 **Categories:** air-travel, eastern-europe, estonia, europe, european-cities, european-rail, london, map-of-rail-travel, montenegro, paris, podgorica, rail, rail-travel, tallinn, uncategorized, western-europe **URL:** https://brandondonnelly.com/european-cities-by-rail-connectivity ## Content This is a terrific set of maps published by The Washington Post (2015) using data originally collected and published by Peter Kerpedjiev:What they show is how far you can travel in a 24 hour period using only trains and brisk walking from a collection of 28 European cities. In a few cases, such as from London to Dublin, a ferry ride is also included. Here’s a zoom in on London:The obvious takeaway is that Western Europe is very well connected, whereas many parts of Eastern Europe are not. Some cities, such as Tallinn (Estonia) and Podgorica (Montenegro) are almost completely disconnected. Of course today there’s stiff competition from air travel. ## Publication Information - [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/): Publication homepage - [All Posts](https://brandondonnelly.com/): More posts from this publication - [RSS Feed](https://api.paragraph.com/blogs/rss/@brandondonnelly): Subscribe to updates - [Twitter](https://twitter.com/donnelly_b): Follow on Twitter ## Optional - [Collect as NFT](https://brandondonnelly.com/european-cities-by-rail-connectivity): Support the author by collecting this post - [View Collectors](https://brandondonnelly.com/european-cities-by-rail-connectivity/collectors): See who has collected this post