Classic route
Tallinn–Paldiski railway
Paldiski → Tallinn · Estonia
Tallinn–Paldiski railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 58 min
- Average speed
- 49 km/h
- Operator
- Elron
- Train
- Elron regional
- Countries
- Estonia
- In service since
- 1870
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Estonia's oldest railway west from Tallinn, opened in 1870 to the ice-free naval harbour at Paldiski on the Baltic.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1405182 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 1297 (Zug-Nr. 1297)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in ET) ↗
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