Classic route
Elron
Tartu → Valga · Estonia
Elron in pictures
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- Distance
- 84 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 17 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Elron
- Train
- Stadler FLIRT
- Countries
- Estonia
- In service since
- 1887
- Runs
- 5× daily
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
How Estonian trains reach Latvia: the Baltic Railway’s 1887 branch to Valga, built to meet the Riga line, and the Riga train still runs on it.
This is how Estonian trains reach Latvia: the Baltic Railway opened the Tartu–Valga branch in 1887 to meet the Riga–Pskov line then being built, and through trains between Tartu and Riga ran from 1888. Elron’s FLIRTs call at Nõo, Elva, Puka, Keeni and Sangaste on the way, and the Riga service still uses the same rails.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14338045 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of E35
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Elva
- Puka
- Sangaste
- Valga, the town split across the Latvian border
Read more on Wikipedia (in ET) ↗
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