Rail Journeys
SARAL GUPTA Travel iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Rail Journeys is a free Travel app for iPhone and iPad by SARAL GUPTA. Rated 5.0/5 from 4 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 23, 2026.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 4 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 211 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 23
- 2026 · v1.0.6
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About Rail Journeys
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.
What’s new
Version 1.0.6 · Updated October 23, 2026
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.
App privacy
The developer, SARAL GUPTA, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Identifiers: User ID, Device ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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