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[D] This route carries one daily Tallinn - Moskva train pair.
[D] This route carries one daily Tallinn - Moskva train pair.


==(Tallinn - Tartu -) Piiroja ER - Pechory-Pskovskie RŽD (- Pskov)==
==(Tartu - Orava -) and (Riga LDZ - Valga ER -) Koidula ER - Pechory-Pskovskie RŽD (- Pskov)==
[D] No cross-border passenger service. A new border station is under construction at Koidula, east of Piusa on the line from Valga, which will serve both this line and that from Valga. A new connection is under construction from this line to Koidula. When it opens, expected in the summer of 2011, the direct line to Pechory-Pskovskie will close.
[D] No cross-border passenger service. The new Estonian border station of Koidula opened to traffic on 23 May 2011 although the actual station building is not expected to be completed until July. Opening of the new connection from the Orava line to Koidula resulted in the closure of the direct connection from the Orava line to Pechory-Pskovskie, with its separate viaduct over the stream which forms the border.
 
==(Riga LDZ - Valga ER -) Piusa ER - Pechory-Pskovskie RŽD (- Pskov)==
[D] No passenger service. This line is at present closed for construction of a new border station at Koidula, east of Piusa, and freight traffic diverted via Tartu. Koidula will serve both this line and that from Tartu. It is expected to open in the summer of 2011.


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 22:37, 24 May 2011

All rail routes between this pair of countries are 1520mm gauge.

(Tallinn -) Narva ER - Ivangorod-Narvskiy RŽD (- Sankt-Peterburg)

[D] This route carries one daily Tallinn - Moskva train pair.

(Tartu - Orava -) and (Riga LDZ - Valga ER -) Koidula ER - Pechory-Pskovskie RŽD (- Pskov)

[D] No cross-border passenger service. The new Estonian border station of Koidula opened to traffic on 23 May 2011 although the actual station building is not expected to be completed until July. Opening of the new connection from the Orava line to Koidula resulted in the closure of the direct connection from the Orava line to Pechory-Pskovskie, with its separate viaduct over the stream which forms the border.

See also