Edelaraudtee
Edelaraudtee ( Southwest Railway ) is an Estonian railway company (railway infrastructure company and freight transport).
history
The railway company, founded in 1997, owns the lines from Tallinn to Pärnu (closed in 2018) and Viljandi , on which express and freight trains operate. In addition to train traffic on these connections, the company also operated passenger trains on the routes from Tallinn to Narva , Koidula and Valga (as well as the express trains on the route to Tartu ), for which Eesti Raudtee is the infrastructure operator. With the decommissioning of the DR1 multiple units and the commissioning of the new Stadler Flirt low-floor multiple units (both diesel and electric versions), all domestic passenger traffic was transferred to the Elektriraudtee , which until then had only operated local electric traffic in the greater Tallinn area.
Edelaraudtee was acquired by the British railway company GB Railways in 2000 . After its takeover, the company now belongs to the FirstGroup . Edelaraudtee currently no longer operates passenger transport, but is primarily responsible (via the subsidiary Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS ) for maintaining and expanding the remaining own route and stations between Tallinn and Viljandi .
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Edelaraudtee train in the Baltic station (1999)
Shunter in Tallinn (2005)
Edelaraudtee train in Tartu (2010)
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Web links
- Edelaraudtee (English)