My first ever overseas train journey was from Hoek of Holland to Amsterdam in 1987 at the start of my maiden inter-rail trip. Although I did a few overnight journeys sat in a seat (travelling on a budget in those days!), I had to wait until 1992 to do my first proper fully-fledged overnight journey in a sleeping berth.
I have now done well over 200 overseas rail journeys, mainly in Europe, but also in Africa, Asia, South America, The Middle East & India.
In typical male fashion I am keeping a tab on all such journeys, as the table below shows.
In the meantime keep reading my blog for rail themed articles from my past journeys and future plans too.
Wilbur
| Country | Journeys (Overnight) | Number |
| Albania | Tirana to Durres (return) + Tirana to Shkodra | 3 |
| Armenia | Yerevan to Tbilisi | 1 |
| Austria | Vienna to Salzburg + Innsbruck to Vienna + Vienna to Maribor + Spielfeldstraße to Villach + Villach to Venice + Linz to Paris + Salzburg to Munich | 7 |
| Belarus | Minsk to Vilnius | 1 |
| Belgium | Brussels to Bruges (Return) + Bruges to Gent (return) Brussels to Antwerp (return) + Brussels to Amsterdam + Brussels to London (eight times) + Bruges to Ostend + Brussels to Gent (Return) | 18 |
| Bosnia | Sarajevo to Belgrade | 1 |
| Bulgaria | Oslo to Gorna Oryakhovitsa (return) | 2 |
| China | Guangzhou to Kowloon | 1 |
| Croatia | Zagreb to Split + Ploce to Sarajevo | 2 |
| Cuba | Trinidad de Cuba to Valley de los Ingenios (return) | 2 |
| Czechia | Prague to Linz + Prague to Bohusovice nad Ohri (return) | 3 |
| Denmark | Copenhagen to Stockholm + Copenhagen to Oslo | 2 |
| Egypt | Luxor to Cairo | 1 |
| Finland | Kimi to Torvola (Return) + Kimi to Helsinki + Helsinki to Turku | 4 |
| France | Avignon to Lyon + Lyon top Strasbourg + Le Havre to Rouen (return) + Epernay to Paris + Nice to Monaco (Return) + Paris to Quimper (Return) + Paris to Luxembourg (twice) + Nimes to Paris + Paris to Brussels + Cherbourg to Paris + Paris to Copenhagen + Paris to Calais + Lille to London + Paris to London (sixteen times) | 33 |
| Georgia | Makhinjauri to Yerevan | 1 |
| Germany | Munich to Salzburg + Munich to Holzkirchen (Return) + Munich to Innsbruck + Trier to Dortmund + Dortmund to Cologne + Cologne to Hamburg + Hamburg to Amsterdam + Berlin to Leipzig + Leipzig to Warsaw + Dusseldorf to Monchengladbach (return) + Dusseldorf to Cologne + Stuttgart to Frankfurt + Frankfurt to Oberusel | 15 |
| Greece | Athens to Thessaloniki + Thessaloniki to Kalambaka (return) + Thessaloniki to Skopje | 4 |
| Hungary | Budapest to Prague + Budapest to Bucharest | 2 |
| India | Agra to Delhi | 1 |
| Indonesia | Jakarta to Bogor + Yogyakarta to Surabaya + Surabaya to Banyuwangi | 3 |
| Ireland | Dublin to Cork | 1 |
| Italy | Genoa to Turin + Turin to Milan + Catania to Naples + Sorrento to Pompei (return) + Sorrento to Naples + Pisa to Florence (return) + Venice to Rimini + Rimini to Ferrara + Ferrara to Milan + Milan to Interlaken + Milan to Genoa (Return) + Milan to Monza + Palermo to Agrigento + Agrigento to Syracuse + Syracuse to Taormina + Taormina to Catania + Bolonga to Venice + Venice to Verona + Verona to Milan + Milan to Como + Como to Tirano + Tirano to Chur (Bernina Express) | 25 |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg to Brussels + Luxembourg to Ettelbruck (return) + Luxembourg to Trier | 4 |
| Macedonia | Skopje to Nis | 1 |
| Moldova | Chisinau to Odessa | 1 |
| Montenegro | Bar to Podgerica | 1 |
| Morocco | Fes to Marrakech | 1 |
| Netherlands | Hoek of Holland to Amsterdam (twice) + Amsterdam to Munich + Amsterdam to Alkmaar + Amsterdam to Hoek of Holland (twice) + Amsterdam to Copenhagen + Amsterdam to Den Haag (return) + Amsterdam to Dusseldorf | 10 |
| Norway | Oslo to Trondheim (twice) + Trondheim to Fauske (twice) + Narvik to Lulea (twice) + Oslo to Bergen + Bergen to Myrdal + Myrdal to Flam (return) + Myrdal to Oslo + Oslo to Gjøvik (return) + Trondheim to Hell (return twice) + Oslo to Moss (return) | 19 |
| Peru | Puno to Cusco + Agua Caliente to Cusco | 2 |
| Poland | Warsaw to Krakow + Krakow to Budapest + Warsaw to Lodz (return) | 4 |
| Romania | Bucharest to Chisinau | 1 |
| Russia | Kaliningrad to Svetlogorsk (return) + Kaliningrad to Minsk | 3 |
| Serbia | Nis to Sofia + Belgrade to Sofia | 2 |
| Slovenia | Maribor to Spielfeldstrasse + Ljublijana to Skofja Loka (return) | 3 |
| Spain | Santiago de Compostela to Madrid + Madrid to Barcelona + Madrid to Cordoba + Cordoba to Cadiz + Cadiz to Seville + Madrid to Segovia (return) + Denia to Alicante + Palma to Soller (return) + Barcelona to Sitges (return) + Barcelona to Montserrat (return) + Madrid to Toledo (return) | 16 |
| Sweden | Stockholm to Oslo + Lulea to Nice + Lulea to Kimi + Stockholm to Berlin via Malmo | 4 |
| Switzerland | Geneva to Interlaken + Interlaken to Bern + Bern to Geneva + Geneva to Lausanne (return) Interlaken to Montreaux + Montreaux to Lausanne + Lausanne to Paris + Chur to St Moritz + St Moritz to Zermatt + Zermatt to Zurich | 11 |
| Syria | Hama to Homs + Aleppo to Latakia | 2 |
| Thailand | Bangkok to Vientiane | 1 |
| Turkey | Istanbul to Thessaloniki + Istanbul to Ankara + Ankara to Adana + Pendik to Ankara + Ankara to Erzurum | 5 |
| Ukraine | Sevastopol to Bakhchysarai (return) + Sevastopol to Simferopol + Simferopol to Lviv + Lviv to Kiev | 5 |
| Vietnam | Hue to Hanoi | 1 |
| Total Journeys | 230 (27) |
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