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AS Eesti Liinirongid

This week: Elron tests its Škoda trains at night between Tapa and Tamsalu for the first time. (2026-09-28)

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Type
National operator — state-owned joint-stock company and the Estonian passenger railway undertaking, trading as Elron; registry code 10520953, registered at Vabaduse pst 176, 10917 Tallinn; licensed for passenger carriage on the public railway by Konkurentsiamet. Its own annual report states that it is a public transport company owned 100 per cent by the Estonian state and that the company falls within the administrative area of the Regionaal- ja Põllumajandusministeerium — not the transport ministry
Market · Region
European Union · Estonia
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Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, Cybersecurity

Carries domestic and international passengers over Estonia's railway networks under state contracts.

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Elron carries domestic passengers over the Eesti Raudtee and Edelaraudtee networks under a public service contract with the state, and runs the international Tartu–Riga service under a contract with the Ministry of Climate concluded on 22 December 2025, with the direct line beginning on 12 January 2026: the operator's release of that day records the first departure from Tallinn at 14.50 on 12 January and the first departure in the Riga–Tartu–Tallinn direction at 7.38 on 13 January. Its 2025 annual report records that it served passengers on sixteen lines — six worked by electric units and ten by diesel units — that the total length of the railway lines it uses is 748.245 km of which 174.886 km is electrified, and that its fleet is 20 diesel units (six four-car, eight three-car and six two-car) and 18 electric units (six four-car and twelve three-car), the Stadler units delivered in 2013 and 2014. Sixteen new Sǩoda electric units are being delivered against a contract concluded in 2022: thirteen had arrived by the end of 2025 and entered service on the Tallinn–Kloogaranna line, operation was extended to the Tallinn–Tapa line early in 2026, and the operator plans to open the Tallinn–Tartu line with the new fleet at the end of 2026. It carried 7.66 million passengers in 2025 against 7.93 million in 2024, about 270,000 fewer, with schedule adherence across all trains of 98.16 per cent against a strategic target of 98.75 per cent, which it attributes to speed restrictions and line closures from the Tapa–Tartu and Lagedi–Aegviidu infrastructure works. Its busiest lines in 2025 were Tallinn–Turba with 1,395,905 passengers, Tallinn–Paldiski with 1,345,454 and Tallinn–Aegviidu with 824,961. Statistics Estonia’s own series puts 2025 at 7,678,700 passengers and 342.4 million passenger-kilometres. Elron is the contracting authority for the joint Baltic procurement of Rail Baltica regional rolling stock on behalf of itself, Latvia’s Vivi and Lithuania’s LTG Link.

Type
National operator — state-owned joint-stock company and the Estonian passenger railway undertaking, trading as Elron; registry code 10520953, registered at Vabaduse pst 176, 10917 Tallinn; licensed for passenger carriage on the public railway by Konkurentsiamet. Its own annual report states that it is a public transport company owned 100 per cent by the Estonian state and that the company falls within the administrative area of the Regionaal- ja Põllumajandusministeerium — not the transport ministry
Where
Estonia · Tallinn
Programmes
Connecting Europe Facility, TEN-T, EU High-Speed Rail Plan
Technology areas
Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, Cybersecurity

Structure

  • operates for Ministry of Climate — AS Eesti Liinirongid operates the Tartu–Riga international passenger service for Kliimaministeerium under a public service contract concluded on 22 December 2025; the operator states that the state supported the preparation of the direct connection with in 2025 and that the project is carried out together with the Latvian passenger operator (active · since 2025-12-22)
  • regulated by Estonian Competition Authority — Konkurentsiamet issues the passenger railway undertaking licence; its published register records AS Eesti Liinirongid under licence RA-RVL-002 of 30 December 1999 (active)
  • regulated by TTJA — TTJA is the safety authority for the vehicles Elron runs: the Eesti Raudtee network statement records that the on-board system able to receive ALSN codes must pass TTJA conformity assessment before first use on the infrastructure, and TTJA keeps the Estonian railway traffic register of rolling stock (active)
  • regulated by Transport Administration — Section 143(6) of the Railway Act gives Transpordiamet the checking of compliance with the requirements set for railway undertakings having regard to section 7, which applies Regulation (EU) 2021/782 on rail passenger rights; the agency is also the extrajudicial body for the passenger-rights offences in sections 167 to 170 (active)

Who holds what here

  • awarded by Ministry of Climate — Kliimaministeerium awarded AS Eesti Liinirongid the international public service contract for passenger carriage on the Tartu–Riga route, concluded 22 December 2025 (active · since 2025-12-22)
Sources for these relationships (7)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · 2025. a majandusaasta aruanne — 36 pages: 100 per cent state-owned and within the administrative area of the Regionaal- ja Põllumajandusministeerium; sixteen lines, six electric and ten diesel; 748.245 km of lines of which 174.886 km electrified; 20 diesel and 18 electric units; 7.66 million passengers in 2025 against 7.93 million in 2024; 98.16 per cent schedule adherence against a 98.75 per cent target; operating income EUR 73.5 million with state operating support of EUR 41.8 million and ticket revenue of EUR 22.093 million; thirteen new Škoda EMUs arrived by end-2025 (published 2026-05 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Raudtee · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne 2026/2027 liiklusgraafikuperioodiks, 13.12.2026 kuni 11.12.2027, version 1.0 of 9 December 2025 (board decision 865/1) — 77 pages (published 2025-12-09 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) · Raudtee — tegevusload, and the register itself at /sites/default/files/documents/2026-05/Raudtee tegevusload alates 01.2026.pdf: infrastructure manager licences RA-IML-003 of 8 May 2002 to Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts (to 19 March 2020 Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS) and 01-1 of 27 March 2009 to AS Eesti Raudtee; passenger licences RA-RVL-002 of 30 December 1999 to AS Eesti Liinirongid and 02-1 of 26 June 2006 to AS GoRail, the latter suspended until 2 September 2027; and eleven freight licences, including 03-10 of 27 March 2009 held by Operail OÜ, which the register annotates as AS Operail until 9 December 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Riigi Teataja (State Gazette of Estonia) · Raudteeseadus (Railway Act), consolidated text RT I, 19.02.2026, 2, in force from 1 March 2026, read through the gazette's own back-end at https://www.riigiteataja.ee/public-api/api/v1/akt/119022026002/blob-html because the public page is a JavaScript application. Section 73(1)–(2): the Ministry of Climate draws up the action plan guiding the development of the public railway infrastructure and the Government approves it for at least five years. Section 106: TTJA determines the infrastructure charge and mark-ups and collects the charges. Section 108(1)–(2): Konkurentsiamet monitors the competitive situation on the rail services market and 'on ka reguleeriv asutus Euroopa Parlamendi ja nõukogu direktiivi 2012/34/EL tähenduses'. Section 143(1) lists six supervisory bodies; 143(3) gives Konkurentsiamet accounting separation, the licences in section 12(1) points 1–3 and complaints under section 109; 143(4)–(5) gives TTJA the upkeep of structures and rolling stock, safety management system supervision, the licences in section 12(1) points 4–5, the driver chapter, the interoperability chapter and supervision of single safety certificates and of the trackside control-command and signalling, energy and infrastructure subsystems under Article 17 of Directive (EU) 2016/798; 143(6) limits Transpordiamet to checking compliance with the requirements set for railway undertakings having regard to section 7, which applies Regulation (EU) 2021/782 on rail passenger rights (published 2026-03-01 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Transpordiamet (Estonian Transport Administration) · transpordiamet.ee — the agency's own site; published desks +372 620 1200 and info@transpordiamet.ee; its statistics page lists driving schools, traffic accidents, vehicles, roadworthiness testing, mobility, state road traffic counts, the maritime economy and ship inspections, and no rail series (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet (Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority) · ttja.ee — the authority's own site, its railway safety section and the railway traffic register of rolling stock; published desks Endla 10A, 10122 Tallinn, +372 667 2000, info@ttja.ee, press@ttja.ee (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 66373-2026 (notice type can-tran), 29 January 2026 — Raudtee reisijateveo rahvusvahelise avaliku teenindamise leping, buyer Kliimaministeerium, EUR 10,692,687 to AS Eesti Liinirongid for international public passenger service on the Tartu–Riga route, contract concluded 22 December 2025 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)

Tenders

TenderStatusValue bandNext key date
Elron Rail Baltica regional passenger rolling stockBids closedno value published on any notice of the procedureBids closed September 2026 · award expected

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  • 2026-09-28 — Elron tests its Škoda trains at night between Tapa and Tamsalu for the first time.

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  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · elron.ee — operator home page (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · Üldkontaktid — published customer information line +372 616 0245 open 06.00–24.00 and klienditugi@elron.ee; the same page lists departmental post-holders by name, which are not reproduced (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · Elroni rongid — published fleet list: 20 diesel units and 18 electric units, all Stadler units entering service between July 2013 and May 2014, and 98 per cent on-time arrival (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · Hanked ja dokumendid — the operator's own page of small request-for-quotation notices, its procurement plan and its procurement rules; the per-tender contact published on it is a named individual, which is not reproduced (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · News, 9 September 2026: Rail Baltica rongihankele nõuetekohaseid pakkumisi ei laekunud — 'Balti riikide reisirongioperaatorite Elroni, Vivi ja LTG Linki Rail Baltica regionaalrongide ühishankele tähtajaks nõuetekohaseid pakkumisi ei laekunud. Pärast dokumentide ja tagasiside läbitöötamist kuulutatakse välja uus hange.' Six train manufacturers registered; two raised questions on technical requirements and contract terms up to the last days; up to 20 regional trains suitable for 1435 mm gauge with a maximum speed of 200 km/h, Estonia buying five with the possibility of increasing the order to seven, Latvia up to five and Lithuania up to eight; the procurement was advertised on 18 March and tenders could be submitted until 8 September at 12.00 (published 2026-09-09 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract notice 605207-2026, 2 September 2026 — Rail Baltica regionaalse reisijateveo veeremi hange, buyer AS Eesti Liinirongid, buyer reference 303788; the last of eight notices on the procedure, tender deadline 8 September 2026; no quantity, no speed and no value is published on the notice, and the technical description is an unpublished annex (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract notice 192488-2026, 19 March 2026 — Rail Baltica regionaalse reisijateveo veeremi hange, the originating notice: 'Eduka pakkujaga sõlmib iga hankija (Elron, LTG, Vivi) eraldi lepingu. LTG ega Vivi ei kohustu lepingu sõlmimisega veeremit ostma, vaid tagavad optsiooni veeremile' (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 66373-2026 (notice type can-tran), 29 January 2026 — Raudtee reisijateveo rahvusvahelise avaliku teenindamise leping, buyer Kliimaministeerium, EUR 10,692,687 to AS Eesti Liinirongid for international public passenger service on the Tartu–Riga route, contract concluded 22 December 2025 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Raudtee · Aastaraamat 2025 (annual report, audited by AS PricewaterhouseCoopers) — 146 pages: revenue EUR 31.2m, EBITDA EUR 37.2m, investment EUR 142.1m, 704 employees, 2.87 million tonnes of freight carried on the network, 6.59 million passengers on Eesti Raudtee infrastructure and 7.66 million in Estonia, 5.16 million passenger train-km, 1,709 million gross tonne-km of which 892 million freight, and EUR 140.7m of investment planned for 2026 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Statistikaamet (Statistics Estonia) · Table TS1420, passenger and freight traffic on railways, read through the PxWeb API at https://andmed.stat.ee/api/v1/en/stat/TS1420: passengers 8,373.1 thousand in 2019 falling to 7,678.7 thousand in 2025; passenger-km 391,688 thousand in 2019 and 342,403.2 thousand in 2025; goods carried 21,340.9 thousand tonnes in 2019 and 6,174.9 thousand tonnes in 2025; freight turnover 2,160,293.2 thousand tonne-km in 2019 and 485,205.6 thousand tonne-km in 2025. The two public-railway sub-series stop after 2022 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) · Raudtee — tegevusload, and the register itself at /sites/default/files/documents/2026-05/Raudtee tegevusload alates 01.2026.pdf: infrastructure manager licences RA-IML-003 of 8 May 2002 to Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts (to 19 March 2020 Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS) and 01-1 of 27 March 2009 to AS Eesti Raudtee; passenger licences RA-RVL-002 of 30 December 1999 to AS Eesti Liinirongid and 02-1 of 26 June 2006 to AS GoRail, the latter suspended until 2 September 2027; and eleven freight licences, including 03-10 of 27 March 2009 held by Operail OÜ, which the register annotates as AS Operail until 9 December 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Republic of Estonia — Riigihangete register (State Public Procurement Register) · riigihanked.riik.ee, the Estonian national procurement register; an AngularJS single-page application over a public API at /rhr/api/public/v1 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● Republic of Estonia — Riigihangete register · Open-data interface, contract award notices by month: GET https://riigihanked.riik.ee/rhr/api/public/v1/opendata/notice_award/<YYYY>/month/<M>/xml — the route through which this file read the winners of pre-eForms Estonian award notices (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · News, 12 January 2026: Tallinn – Tartu – Riia rongiliin alustab liinireise — 'Tallinn – Tartu – Riia rongiliin käivitub 12. jaanuaril. 12. jaanuarist väljub Tallinn–Tartu–Riia rong Tallinnast kell 14.50, Tartust kell 17.05 ja jõuab Riiga kell 20.46. Riiast väljub rong kell 7.38 … Esimene väljumine suunal Riia–Tartu–Tallinn toimub 13. jaanuaril kell 7.38.' The line is worked by a two-car Stadler FLIRT diesel unit; the same release records the existing one-change Tallinn–Tartu–Valga–Riia–Vilnius connection running since January 2025 (published 2026-01-12 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · News, 18 March 2026: Kuulutasime välja Rail Baltica regionaalrongide hanke — the launch release for the joint Baltic regional-train procurement. 'Kokku plaanitakse hankida kuni 20 Euroopa rööpmelaiusele (1435 mm) sobivat regionaalrongi, mille maksimaalne kiirus ulatub 200 km/h-ni'; and 'Eesti hakkab esialgu hankima viit rongi, kuid sellele lisaks on võimalik hankida täiendavalt kaks rongi. Hanke raames on Lätil võimalik hankida kuni viis rongi ja Leedul kuni kaheksa rongi.' (published 2026-03-18 · checked 2026-09-14)

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