About this site

An unofficial wiki and mod index for trainsworld, written by players, checked against the game itself.

Checked against build 1648Updated 12 Nov 2026

What this is

trainsworld.org is a player-made reference for trainsworld, the free browser train-building game by anita.garden. It has two halves:

A wiki — how the game's systems actually work: track, stations, schedules, demand, fares, money, cities, sharing and achievements.
A mod index — a listing of tools built around the game. It is open and currently empty; see Mods for what will be listed and how a listing gets checked.

It is not the game's official site, and it is not affiliated with anita.garden. The game is free to play at anita.garden/trainsworld; everything here is about that game, not a replacement for it.

Why a separate site at all

Because the game is deep and its own panels are terse. The in-game inspector will tell you that a platform is full, or that a line is reversing partway, but not what that means for the network you are trying to build. A wiki can explain the model once, in plain language, and link the parts together.

How the pages are written

Every claim on this site comes from one of three places:

The game's own interface and text. The panels, the controls list, the tutorial steps, the tooltips and the warning messages are the primary source. Where the game says something in one sentence, this site tries to explain it without contradicting it.
The game's public data. The city list, trip counts and coordinates on the cities page are the same table the game's demand model works from.
Playing it. Timing, ordering and the practical advice — spacing stations, when to lengthen a train, when a fare change is a mistake — come from using the thing.

Where the game hides a number or the model's exact formula, the page says so rather than inventing one. Where a figure is version-specific, it carries the build it was checked against.

Sources

Game build: 1648
Data pack: 2026-11-11b, served from data.anita.garden
City figures: the game's own city list — 3,982 metro areas, with daily local trips and coordinates
Map outlines: Natural Earth 1:110m land, public domain
Typeface: Nunito, self-hosted, SIL Open Font License
Game artwork: the logo on this page is the game's own promotional image, used with credit and without modification

The wiki text is original prose written for this site. It is not copied from the game's text; the game's wording is paraphrased and quoted only where the exact phrase matters.

trainsworld — the game's own promotional artwork. trainsworld is made by anita.garden; this site is not affiliated with it.

What this site is not

Not official. No insider information, no roadmap, no announcements. If the game changes, this site may lag behind.
Not a cheat site. The mods index excludes anything that fakes scores or manipulates leaderboards, and nothing here modifies a save.
Not a data mine. The wiki explains behaviour; it does not publish extracted game code.

Corrections and contact

If a page is wrong — the game changed, a number moved, a mechanic is described badly — the correction is welcome and will be credited. A contact address for corrections and mod submissions will be published here; until then, treat version-specific figures as checked against build 1648 and no later.

Privacy

This site has no accounts, no analytics and no advertising, and it sets no cookies. It stores two preferences (theme and light/dark) in your browser's local storage, and nothing else. Fonts and scripts are served from this domain; the only outward links are to the game and to the sources above. The search box runs entirely in your browser against a small index it downloads once.

Credits

trainsworld — anita.garden
Natural Earth — public-domain map data
Nunito — SIL Open Font License, by Vernon Adams, Cyreal and Jacques Le Bailly
This site — written and maintained by players, unaffiliated with the game