Tallinn’s train station was completed in 1870 in conjunction with the Tallinn-Saint Petersburg rail line, a distance of about 212 miles (342km). During World War II, it was burned by the Soviets. Subsequently rebuilt, it most recently supported long distance routes to Saint Petersburg (again) as well as Moscow, both via Narva on Estonia’s border with Russia. It also serves the university town of Tartu as well as commuter routes to/from locations closer to Tallinn.

It is planned to be the northern terminus for Rail Baltica, a 590 mile (950km) line connecting Tallinn with Warsaw, Poland via Latvia and Lithuania. Once connected to Warsaw, the line effectively allows for passenger and freight service to-and-from much of the European Union. There is even a tunnel envisioned that would extent the line another 50 miles (80km) north, below the Gulf of Finland, to Helsinki.

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