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The world railway atlas as MCP tools: notable train routes, night trains, journey times.
Remote server: your requests and data go to trainrouter.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http atlas https://trainrouter.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_routes — Free-text search over every route in the World Train Map atlas — matches route name, cities, train name, operator and countries, with optionget_route — Full record for one atlas route by exact id: distance, fastest time, top speed, operator, rolling stock, opening year, ridership, story, on-famous_routes — The world's most famous train journeys in World Train Map's renown order (rank 1 = most famous: Trans-Siberian, Glacier Express, Orient Exprroutes_in_country — Every atlas route crossing one country, sorted by renown, plus that country's worldtrainmap.com hub URL when it exists. An unrecognised counnight_trains — Sleeper routes from the atlas, sorted by renown — all of them by default, or only those starting or ending in a given city — with the per-cicity_pair — Journey facts between two cities (European coverage): fastest and typical duration, whether direct trains run, fewest changes, operators andatlas_stats — One-call snapshot of what the World Train Map atlas covers: total route count, countries, combined length in km, the category list, number oNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.