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10 buyers · 49 tenders · checked 2026-10-03

Rail Baltica 213 km new line Tallinn-Latvia with EUR 1.86bn work, alliances signed May 2025 EUR 932.0m; existing network electrification and signalling renewal programs underway.

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Live pipeline: EUR 2.38bn of valued rail contracts in execution — EUR 2,383,399,033.28 across 44 records, the earliest concluded on 9 August 2022 and the latest on 17 August 2026, of which EUR 1,858,732,909.83 across 28 records is Rail Baltic Estonia and EUR 450,888,607.52 across 13 records is Eesti Raudtee. Within that, EUR 1.56bn is Rail Baltica main-line works across twelve records including the EUR 932.0m alliance pair, whose figure includes the strategic-materials purchase option, and EUR 250.9m is Eesti Raudtee electrification. Two competitions are open on the run date: the Tallinn tram purchase at a published estimate of EUR 88.0m, closing for requests to participate on 3 November 2026, and Eesti Raudtee's CCS module buildings on the (Tapa)–Narva section, closing for tenders on 13 October 2026 with no value published. One competition is closed and unresolved — the joint Baltic Rail Baltica regional train order, whose deadline passed on 8 September 2026 with no compliant tender — and two procedures closed without a winner, each carrying the buyer's own published reason.
Technology areas: Track & civil, Signalling & train control, Electrification, Rolling-stock hardware, Digital operations, Predictive maintenance, Cybersecurity, AI inspection

Key figures

Statistics Estonia's railway tr…2,124 km · 233 km electrifiedStatistics Estonia's railway traffic register series for 2024: 2,124 km of railway in all, 1,494 km public and 630 km non-public, with 233 km of electrified running track all of it on the public network, 1,171 km of running track of which 926 km public, 80 stations and 532 level crossings of which 182 have automatic signals. Four official publishers give the length five different ways for different quantities and all five are carried: the Ministry of Climate's rail page, last updated 16 April 2025, gives 1,540 km of public railway, 624 km of non-public, 2,164 km together and 132 km of electrified railway; Konkurentsiamet's rail page, last updated 13 July 2026, gives AS Eesti Raudtee 1,229 km and Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS 223.8 km; AS Eesti Raudtee's own company page gives 1,186 km of railway, 61 stations and 135 passenger platforms while its 2025 annual report gives 1,175 km of railway, 61 stations, 136 passenger platforms and 286 km of electrified track; and its Network Statement gives 696 km of railway lines, 593 km single track and 103 km double, with 286 km of electrified track in the 2025/2026 edition and up to 414 km in the 2026/2027 edition. The manager's figures are for its own network and its network statement is measured in line-km and track-km rather than in railway-km. The three electrified figures are three different quantities measured on three different dates and none is a correction of another: the Ministry's table is headed 'Elektriraudtee pikkus', the length of electrified RAILWAY — route, not track — on the public network, on a page last updated 16 April 2025; Statistics Estonia's indicator is 'Length of electrified running tracks' across every railway entered in the national railway traffic register, for the reference year 2024; and Eesti Raudtee's 286 km is the length of electrified track on its own network at the end of 2025, after a further year of energisation on the Tapa–Tartu project, rising to up to 414 km in its 2026/2027 network statement. Route length and track length are not the same measure, and no source reconciles any of the five figures with any other

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● Statistikaamet (Statistics Estonia) · Table KVT026, railways registered in the Estonian railway traffic register, read through the PxWeb API: for 2024, length of railway 2,124 km in all, 1,494 km public and 630 km non-public; electrified running tracks 233 km, all of it public; running tracks 1,171 km of which 926 km public; 80 stations; 532 level crossings of which 182 with automatic signals (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Kliimaministeerium (Ministry of Climate) · Liikuvus — Raudtee: the ministry's own rail page, last updated 16 April 2025. It states that the ministry coordinates the development of railway infrastructure, logistics, passenger and freight transport and rolling stock and of traffic and environmental safety, participates in fare policy and concludes public service contracts with railway undertakings; that Estonia has over 2,000 km of railway of which most belongs to AS Eesti Raudtee and Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS; and its table gives public railway 1,540 km, non-public 624 km, 2,164 km in all, with electrified railway 132 km on the public network and none on the non-public network (published 2025-04-16 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) · Raudtee valdkonna tutvustus — the authority's own statement of its rail mandate, the complaints it decides under the Railway Act, and the two public-use infrastructure managers with their network lengths (AS Eesti Raudtee 1229 km, Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS 223.8 km); page last updated 13 July 2026 (published 2026-07-13 · checked 2026-09-13)
● AS Eesti Raudtee · Ettevõttest — company profile, network and staff figures (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)
● AS Eesti Raudtee · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne 2025/2026 liiklusgraafikuperioodiks, 14.12.2025 kuni 12.12.2026, version 1.3 of 4 December 2025 (board decision 864/9) — 79 pages (published 2025-12-04 · 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)

The Government's action plan st…two public-railway managersThe Government's action plan states it plainly: 'Eestis on kaks avaliku raudtee majandajat – riigile kuuluv AS Eesti Raudtee ja eraomanduses olev Edelaraudtee AS' — Estonia has two managers of the public railway, the state-owned AS Eesti Raudtee and the privately owned Edelaraudtee AS. Edelaraudtee holds the Tallinn-Väike–Lelle–Türi–Viljandi, Lelle–Pärnu and Liiva–Ülemiste lines, about 222 km, and the business register records it in sole ownership through the holder account of AS GO GROUP. The Atlas carries no other privately owned manager of a national public railway in the European Union, though this file has not swept the other member states to test that

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● Vabariigi Valitsus (Government of the Republic of Estonia) / Kliimaministeerium · Avaliku raudteeinfrastruktuuri arendamist suunav tegevuskava aastateks 2021–2028, confirmed by the Government under Railway Act section 73(1) — 22 pages: two public railway managers, state-owned AS Eesti Raudtee and privately owned Edelaraudtee AS; EUR 840.2 million to be invested in AS Eesti Raudtee infrastructure over 2021–2028 and EUR 45.8 million in Edelaraudtee AS infrastructure; electrification of Tallinn–Narva, Tapa–Tartu–Valga and Tartu–Koidula costed at EUR 274.2 million; Haapsalu restoration stage II Risti–Haapsalu–Rohuküla at EUR 80 million and electrification non-eligible costs at EUR 31 million still to be found; Tallinn ring railway estimated at about EUR 112 million; Valga–Koidula reconstruction and reopening to passenger trains at EUR 42–45 million; level-crossing safety 2021–2024 about EUR 14.2 million covering 123 crossings. The strings ERTMS and ETCS appear nowhere in the document (published 2021 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne liiklusgraafikuperioodiks 13.12.2026 – 11.12.2027, approved by order EDI-2026-KK-7 of 30 January 2026 — 34 pages; the manager of the public network on the Tallinn-Väike–Lelle–Türi–Viljandi, Lelle–Pärnu and Liiva–Ülemiste lines, about 222 km, 1520/1524 mm, no electrification and no ETCS anywhere in the document (published 2026-01-30 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Republic of Estonia — e-Äriregister (e-Business Register) · Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts, registry code 10786958; former name Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS; share capital EUR 274,820; sole ownership through the holder account of AS GO GROUP (registry code 11071150) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Konkurentsiamet (Estonian Competition Authority) · Raudtee valdkonna tutvustus — the authority's own statement of its rail mandate, the complaints it decides under the Railway Act, and the two public-use infrastructure managers with their network lengths (AS Eesti Raudtee 1229 km, Edelaraudtee Infrastruktuuri AS 223.8 km); page last updated 13 July 2026 (published 2026-07-13 · checked 2026-09-13)

Both existing public networks r…1520/1524 mm today, 1435 mm being builtBoth existing public networks run on 1520 and 1524 mm gauge; Rail Baltica is being built to 1435 mm for a design speed of 249 km/h for passenger trains and 120 km/h for freight, with all crossings grade-separated, two international passenger terminals at Tallinn Ülemiste and Pärnu and twelve local stops. Maximum permitted axle load is 25 tonnes for wagons and 32 tonnes for locomotives on the Eesti Raudtee network and 25 tonnes on Edelaraudtee; Rail Baltica is designed for 25 tonnes with passenger trains up to 400 m and freight trains up to 1,050 m. The Tallinn tram network, the only urban rail in Estonia, is a third gauge: the operator's own history page records that the track gauge laid in 1888, 1067 mm, is what has remained

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● 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)
● Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne liiklusgraafikuperioodiks 13.12.2026 – 11.12.2027, approved by order EDI-2026-KK-7 of 30 January 2026 — 34 pages; the manager of the public network on the Tallinn-Väike–Lelle–Türi–Viljandi, Lelle–Pärnu and Liiva–Ülemiste lines, about 222 km, 1520/1524 mm, no electrification and no ETCS anywhere in the document (published 2026-01-30 · checked 2026-09-13)
● OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia · Korduma kippuvad küsimused — programme parameters: 870 km in the three states of which 213 km in Estonia, 1435 mm, 249 km/h passenger and 120 km/h freight design speed, two international terminals and twelve local stops, EUR 15.3bn by end-2030 with up to 85 per cent EU funding, and about EUR 3.1bn invested through Rail Baltic Estonia (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport · Trammiliikluse ajalugu — 'Põhiline, mis on jäänud, on rööbastee rajalaius – 1067 mm ehk pool sülda, nagu see 1888. aastal maha pandi' (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)

Neither Estonian network statem…no Class A system installedNeither Estonian network statement contains the string ETCS or ERTMS anywhere in its 77 and 34 pages, and neither does the Government-approved action plan for the development of the public railway infrastructure 2021–2028. What AS Eesti Raudtee declares is automatic block, semi-automatic block, combined route block, level-crossing automatic signalling and the ALSN automatic cab-signalling system: the infrastructure is equipped with 50 Hz ALSN lineside equipment, every locomotive and multiple unit must carry an on-board system able to receive ALSN codes, and in 2023–2027 the manager is changing over to 25 Hz ALSN coding with both frequencies in use during the transition, starting on the Aegviidu–Tapa–Tartu section. Interlockings are relay systems ЭЦ-9, ЭЦ-12 and ТР-66 with Siemens Simis IS at Narva, Koidula, Reola, Vastse-Kuuste, Põlva, Veriora and Orava and Mipro at Tallinn-Balti, Pääsküla, Keila, Klooga, Paldiski, Vasalemma and Riisipere. Edelaraudtee declares combined route block, electrical interlocking of points and signals and level-crossing automatic signalling with automatic barriers, and one-engine-in-steam working on Lelle–Pärnu

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● 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)
● AS Eesti Raudtee · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne 2025/2026 liiklusgraafikuperioodiks, 14.12.2025 kuni 12.12.2026, version 1.3 of 4 December 2025 (board decision 864/9) — 79 pages (published 2025-12-04 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne liiklusgraafikuperioodiks 13.12.2026 – 11.12.2027, approved by order EDI-2026-KK-7 of 30 January 2026 — 34 pages; the manager of the public network on the Tallinn-Väike–Lelle–Türi–Viljandi, Lelle–Pärnu and Liiva–Ülemiste lines, about 222 km, 1520/1524 mm, no electrification and no ETCS anywhere in the document (published 2026-01-30 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Vabariigi Valitsus (Government of the Republic of Estonia) / Kliimaministeerium · Avaliku raudteeinfrastruktuuri arendamist suunav tegevuskava aastateks 2021–2028, confirmed by the Government under Railway Act section 73(1) — 22 pages: two public railway managers, state-owned AS Eesti Raudtee and privately owned Edelaraudtee AS; EUR 840.2 million to be invested in AS Eesti Raudtee infrastructure over 2021–2028 and EUR 45.8 million in Edelaraudtee AS infrastructure; electrification of Tallinn–Narva, Tapa–Tartu–Valga and Tartu–Koidula costed at EUR 274.2 million; Haapsalu restoration stage II Risti–Haapsalu–Rohuküla at EUR 80 million and electrification non-eligible costs at EUR 31 million still to be found; Tallinn ring railway estimated at about EUR 112 million; Valga–Koidula reconstruction and reopening to passenger trains at EUR 42–45 million; level-crossing safety 2021–2024 about EUR 14.2 million covering 123 crossings. The strings ERTMS and ETCS appear nowhere in the document (published 2021 · checked 2026-09-13)

The Estonian section of Rail Ba…213 km, whole route under contractThe Estonian section of Rail Baltica is 213 km of the 870 km Baltic route. The implementing body stated on 17 December 2025 that the whole main line from Tallinn to the Estonian–Latvian border is now covered by construction contracts, that more than 100 km is in active construction, that land acquisition is completed or legally secured on about 86 per cent of the route, and that financing commitments of about EUR 1.1 billion have been signed; the Ministry of Climate repeated the first two of those on 19 May 2026. The last environmental impact assessment, for the 45 km Pärnu–Kabli section, was declared compliant by TTJA in August 2026, and the implementing body's stated aim is to create readiness to open traffic on Rail Baltica in 2030

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● OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia · News, 17 December 2025: Rail Baltica edeneb terves Baltikumis, ehitustegevus laieneb kogu Eesti põhitrassile — the whole main line under construction contracts, more than 100 km in active construction, about 86 per cent of the route secured, about EUR 1.1bn of commitments signed (published 2025-12-17 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Kliimaministeerium (Ministry of Climate) · News, 19 May 2026: Balti transpordiministrid arutasid Tallinnas Rail Balticu ehitust — the whole main line covered by construction contracts and active construction on more than 100 km (published 2026-05-19 · checked 2026-09-13)
● OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia · News, 12 August 2026: Viimane Rail Baltica lõik sai heakskiidu — the Pärnu–Kabli environmental impact assessment declared compliant by TTJA; 'Eesti eesmärk on luua valmisolek avada liiklus Rail Baltical aastal 2030' (published 2026-08-12 · checked 2026-09-13)
● OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia · Korduma kippuvad küsimused — programme parameters: 870 km in the three states of which 213 km in Estonia, 1435 mm, 249 km/h passenger and 120 km/h freight design speed, two international terminals and twelve local stops, EUR 15.3bn by end-2030 with up to 85 per cent EU funding, and about EUR 3.1bn invested through Rail Baltic Estonia (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)

Rail Baltic Estonia has let EUR…EUR 1.86bn let by Rail Baltic EstoniaRail Baltic Estonia has let EUR 1,858,732,909.83 across the 28 valued records tracked here since December 2022, of which EUR 1,562,963,653.52 is main-line works in twelve records. The largest are the two alliance contracts at EUR 932,000,000 together on TED, Raplamaa IV Alu–Kärpla at EUR 87,842,256.17, the Ülemiste Linda terminal building at EUR 84,796,799.14, Harjumaa II Soodevahe–Kangru at EUR 73,792,051.70 after modification, Raplamaa V Kärpla–Selja at EUR 67,622,114.00 and Harjumaa III Kangru–Saku at EUR 67,234,567.89. The contractor set is narrow and Estonian: Verston with Järelpinge Inseneribüroo hold four sections, Merko Ehitus Eesti holds the terminal and two more, and Tariston, TREV-2 Grupp, TREF Nord, INF INFRA, ATEMO, GRK Eesti, KMG Infra, AllSpark and Leonhard Weiss hold the rest

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● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 329183-2025, 22 May 2025 — Rail Baltica Ülemiste-Pärnu, Pärnu–Läti piir põhitrassi projekteerimine ja ehitus (Allianss): LOT-0001 'Allianss 1 Ülemiste-Pärnu lõik' EUR 540,000,000 and LOT-0002 'Allianss 2 Pärnu–Ikla' EUR 392,000,000, both concluded 16 May 2025, twelve winners with the tendering-party-leader flag on GRK Eesti AS and Bouygues Travaux Publics (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 533326-2024, 5 September 2024 — Rail Baltica Raplamaa põhitrassi raudteetaristu IV etapi ehitustööd lõigul Alu - Kärpla, buyer reference 273438, EUR 87,842,256.17 (published 2024 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 335835-2025, 23 May 2025 — Rail Baltic Ülemiste rahvusvahelise reisiterminali ehitustööd, buyer reference 282839, EUR 84,796,799.14 to Aktsiaselts Merko Ehitus Eesti, contract concluded 21 May 2025 (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract modification notice 483341-2025, 24 July 2025 (dispatched 22 July 2025) — Soodevahe - Kangru, BT-720 EUR 73,792,051.70, tenderers Verston Eesti OÜ and Osaühing Järelpinge Inseneribüroo (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 157363-2025, 11 March 2025 — Rail Baltica Raplamaa põhitrassi raudteetaristu V etapi ehitustööd lõigul Kärpla-Selja, buyer reference 283556, EUR 67,622,114.00 to AS TREV-2 Grupp (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 687755-2024, 12 November 2024 — Rail Baltica Harjumaa põhitrassi raudteetaristu III etapi ehitustööd lõigul Kangru - Saku, buyer reference 273827, EUR 67,234,567.89 to INF INFRA OÜ, contract concluded 11 November 2024 (published 2024 · checked 2026-09-13)

AS Eesti Raudtee's electrificat…3 kV DC to 25 kV AC, 800 km targetAS Eesti Raudtee's electrification project is costed at EUR 273.9 million with EUR 192.0 million of Cohesion Fund and EUR 81.9 million of national co-financing, runs from the first quarter of 2022 to 30 June 2028, and aims to extend electrified track to 800 km, with a first stage to about 500 km made up of about 121 km of existing contact line reconstructed and about 379 km of new contact line on the Tallinn–Tartu, Tapa–Narva and Lagedi–Muuga sections. The contact-line supply voltage declared in the network statement is still 3 kV DC from four traction substations at Järve, Keila, Raasiku and Riisipere, with a new 25 kV AC system planned for introduction in 2026 on Aegviidu–Tapa and Tapa–Tartu and at Tapa station from two substations at Tapa and Jõgeva. The manager's 2025 annual report records the first 25 kV energisation in Estonia during 2025, at the Tapa substation with the Aegviidu–Tapa contact line, and states that on current plans all the named lines will be ready for electric train operation in 2028

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● AS Eesti Raudtee · Projektid — käimasolevad projektid: the electrification project at EUR 273.9m with EUR 192.0m of Cohesion Fund and EUR 81.9m of national co-financing, running 2022 Q1 to 30 June 2028 and aiming to extend electrified track to 800 km with a first stage to about 500 km; the CCS signalling renewal on six sections and about 50 stations at a little over EUR 115 million; and the traffic-management automation project with INDRA SISTEMAS S.A. at EUR 18.4 million (published 2026 · 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)
● AS Eesti Raudtee · Raudteevõrgustiku teadaanne 2025/2026 liiklusgraafikuperioodiks, 14.12.2025 kuni 12.12.2026, version 1.3 of 4 December 2025 (board decision 864/9) — 79 pages (published 2025-12-04 · 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)

Statistics Estonia's rail serie…6.17m tonnes in 2025, down from 21.34m in 2019Statistics Estonia's rail series puts goods carried at 6,174.9 thousand tonnes in 2025 against 21,340.9 thousand in 2019, and freight turnover at 485.2 million tonne-kilometres against 2,160.3 million. AS Eesti Raudtee records 2.87 million tonnes carried on its own network in 2025, almost the same as 2024, of which Operail carried 36 per cent against 54 per cent in 2024; local traffic fell while import and export traffic grew, and the goods carried are mainly mineral fuels, oil shale, grain and vegetable oils. Freight trains ran 472,000 train-kilometres in 2025 against 539,000 in 2024 and did 892 million gross tonne-kilometres of the network's 1,709 million. The manager's own stated cause is the sanctions regime: its 2025 report records that the owner instructed it in April 2022 to assess the ethics of business relations with Russian and Belarusian undertakings and to give up those not strictly necessary, that compliance with sanctions brought a continuing fall in volumes in Latvia and Lithuania while Estonian volumes held level, and that the infrastructure has settled into a transformation from a mass-freight railway into a European passenger railway

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● 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)
● 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)

AS Eesti Raudtee published on 1…Koidula crossing suspended 1 July 2026AS Eesti Raudtee published on 1 July 2026 that the Russian government decided to suspend from 1 July the movement of vehicles, goods and freight through the Russian rail border crossings with Finland, Estonia and Latvia, that in Estonia the decision affects only the Koidula rail border crossing, that infrastructure readiness at Koidula is being maintained while the main emphasis is directed to developing domestic passenger carriage, that the decision does not touch the domestic journeys passing through Koidula station including Elron passenger trains, and that it does not touch the operation of the Narva rail border station. Border-station capacity utilisation in 2025 was 7.5 per cent at Narva, 5.0 per cent at Koidula and 21.1 per cent at Valga

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● AS Eesti Raudtee · News, 1 July 2026: Venemaa otsustas ajutiselt peatada raudteeveod läbi Koidula raudteepiiripunkti (published 2026-07-01 · 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)

Statistics Estonia puts 2025 at…7.68m passengers in 2025Statistics Estonia puts 2025 at 7,678,700 passengers and 342.4 million passenger-kilometres, against 7,929,800 and 382.4 million in 2024. Elron's own report gives 7.66 million passengers in 2025 against 7.93 million in 2024, about 270,000 fewer, and attributes the fall to the reconstruction works: passenger numbers grew 6 per cent on the western direction where the works were finished between 2018 and 2023 and fell 17 per cent on the eastern, 4 per cent on the south-western and 12 per cent on the southern directions while Tapa–Tartu was electrified and the Tallinn–Tapa contact line renewed. Its busiest lines were Tallinn–Turba with 1,395,905 passengers, Tallinn–Paldiski with 1,345,454 and Tallinn–Aegviidu with 824,961. Schedule adherence across all trains was 98.16 per cent against a strategic target of 98.75 per cent. Eesti Raudtee records 6.59 million passengers on its own infrastructure in 2025 and 5.16 million passenger train-kilometres, 91.6 per cent of all train movement on the network, and states in the same report that 'Rahvusvahelist reisirongiliiklust aastatel 2021–2025 ei toimunud' — no international passenger train service ran in the years 2021 to 2025. That is Eesti Raudtee's statement and it is about through trains. Elron publishes that a Tallinn–Tartu–Riga–Vilnius passenger rail connection opened on 6 January 2025 with Vivi and LTG Link, worked as a change-of-train connection at Valga and again at Riga for the Vilnius leg, and that over 16,000 passengers used it in its first year to travel from Estonia to Latvia or Lithuania or the other way. The first through train, the direct Tallinn–Tartu–Riga service, ran on 12 January 2026 and was used for 8,287 international journeys to the end of June 2026

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● 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)
● 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 · 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)
● AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron) · News, 2 August 2026: Järjest enam reisijaid valib Lätti ja Leetu sõitmiseks rongi — 'Alates 6. jaanuarist 2025 toimib Tallinn–Tartu–Riia–Vilniuse ümberistumisega ühendus koostöös Läti reisirongioperaatori Vivi ja Leedu reisirongioperaatoriga LTG Link. Esimesel aastal kasutas ühendust Eestist Lätti või Leetu ning Lätist või Leedust Eestisse sõitmiseks üle 16 000 reisija.' The direct Tallinn–Tartu–Riga train started 12 January 2026 and was used for 8,287 international journeys to the end of June 2026; monthly journeys on the international services grew from about 2,000 in January to nearly 4,400 in June 2026 (published 2026-08-02 · checked 2026-09-14)
● 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)

TTJAEUR 0.53 per train-km on the main networkTTJA, not the regulatory body, sets the infrastructure charges in Estonia, under section 106 of the Railway Act. On 13 August 2026 it determined the rates for the 13 December 2026 to 12 December 2027 timetable period: the AS Eesti Raudtee minimum access package at EUR 0.53 per train-kilometre plus EUR 0.00326 per gross tonne-kilometre, and Edelaraudtee AS at EUR 0.00845 per gross tonne-kilometre. The authority's stated purpose is to continue targeted discounts to make rail more competitive for freight, to create new and retain existing freight flows and to move traffic from road to rail, and it records that rail freight volumes remain low. The discounts include a continuing surcharge reduction for trains to or from third countries where the origin or destination is Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan on the Valga/Koidula–Muuga/Vaivara or Narva–Muuga sections, and a rate of EUR 0.00171 per gross tonne-kilometre for Rail Baltica spoil and aggregate on named sections of both managers' networks. A new charging methodology came into force on 1 March 2026 requiring the charges to be set at least four months before the timetable period begins. Eesti Raudtee's published series of infrastructure charge income runs EUR 29.3 million in 2021, EUR 24.7 million in 2022, EUR 23.1 million in 2023, EUR 22.8 million in 2024 and EUR 24.3 million in 2025, and 22.6 per cent of the 2025 charge income for core services came from freight undertakings against 25.1 per cent in 2024, the freight share falling 2.7 per cent over the year while the passenger share rose 11.5 per cent

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● Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet · News, 14 August 2026: TTJA jätkab raudtee kaubavedude soodustamist uute kasutustasudega — infrastructure charges determined on 13 August 2026 for the 13.12.2026–12.12.2027 timetable period (published 2026-08-14 · checked 2026-09-13)
● AS Eesti Raudtee · News, 17 August 2026: Jätkatakse raudtee kaubavedude soodustamist uute kasutustasudega (published 2026-08-17 · 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)
● 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)

Two Estonian rail procedures in…2 procedures and one lotTwo Estonian rail procedures in the tracked set closed without a winner, and each carries the buyer's own non-award justification from the Commission's vocabulary rather than a bare cancellation. Rail Baltic Estonia's Ülemiste depot building and infrastructure stage 2, against a published estimate of EUR 41,331,818, closed on 26 June 2026 on all-rej — all tenders, requests to participate or projects withdrawn or found inadmissible. The first procedure for the Kangru junction and the viaducts crossing Rail Baltica closed in July 2023 on chan-need, a decision of the buyer because of a change in needs, and the work was re-let and awarded that September. One further lot rather than a whole procedure closed with no winner: the third lot of Eesti Raudtee's stage III traction-substation connections, also on chan-need, on the same notice that awarded the first two lots to Elektrilevi OÜ. Separately, and not a non-award notice, the joint Baltic Rail Baltica regional train procurement reached its deadline on 8 September 2026 with no compliant tender received, which the contracting authority published the next day

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● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 442988-2026, 29 June 2026 (dispatched 26 June 2026) — Ülemiste depoohoone ja taristu 2. etapi ehitustööd, buyer reference 290296: TenderResultCode clos-nw with non-award justification all-rej (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 449255-2023, 24 July 2023 — Kangru liiklussõlme ja Rail Balticut ületavate viaduktide ehitustööd, buyer reference 264499: TenderResultCode clos-nw with non-award justification chan-need (published 2023 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 762411-2023, 15 December 2023 — Elektrifitseerimise projekti uute veoalajaamade elektrilised liitumised III, buyer reference 273485, EUR 15,067,403.18 to Elektrilevi OÜ across LOT-0001 at EUR 8,490,211.18 and LOT-0002 at EUR 6,577,192.00, with LOT-0003 carrying clos-nw and the non-award justification chan-need (published 2023 · checked 2026-09-13)
● EU Vocabularies (Publications Office) · Non-award justification authority table — ins-fund 'Decision of the buyer, because of insufficient funds', all-rej 'All tenders, requests to participate or projects were withdrawn or found inadmissible', other (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)

Elron's published fleet is 20 d…38 Stadler units plus 16 Škoda on orderElron's published 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 Škoda 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 Tallinn–Tapa early in 2026, and the operator plans to open Tallinn–Tartu with the new fleet at the end of 2026 and to extend to the Narva direction in the following years. No contract award notice for that purchase appears in the state procurement register's 2022 award open data, and the operator's accounts record advances received from two ministries for the payments, so it was not let by the operator on its own account. Tallinn's tram fleet is 23 PESA Twist 147N delivered from August 2024, CAF Urbos AXL in service since 2015 and remaining Tatra KT4 units from 1979–1990

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● 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 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)
● Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport · Trammiveerem — published tram fleet: 23 PESA Twist 147N delivered on TLT's order from August 2024, 28.6 m long and carrying up to 309 passengers of whom 65 seated; CAF Urbos AXL in service since 2015, 31,000 mm long, 79 seats and 140 standing, top speed 70 km/h, 600 V supply; Tatra KT4 built by ČKD Tatra 1979–1990, 75 new units taken into service in Tallinn 1981–1990 with further used units bought from Germany between 1996 and 2018. Ordering desk +372 643 4122 and tellimine@tlt.ee (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)

The Ministry of Climate publish…state freight operator sold 10 December 2024The Ministry of Climate publishes the account in its own words. Until December 2024 the group carried freight on Estonian railways and maintained and repaired rolling stock under the name AS Operail; by the start of 2023 it had left wagon leasing and freight haulage in Finland on the owner's decision as business lines not strategically necessary to the state; in February 2024 the government decided to privatise the remaining business lines; the two-stage auction opened on 7 June 2024, the best binding bid in the second stage was made by the Estonian company AS Tiigi Keskus, the sale and purchase agreement was signed on 31 October 2024, and the business together with the subsidiary Operail Repairs OÜ passed to the new owner on 10 December 2024. The legal entity left with the state, AS Raudtee Varad, and its subsidiary do no active business; the state company holds Russian-owned open wagons that are frozen assets which sanctions forbid returning to Russia or buying out, and holds funds to cover the costs of the freezing and of resolving the matter in court

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● Kliimaministeerium (Ministry of Climate) · Liikuvus — Raudtee — AS Raudtee Varad: the ministry's own account of the privatisation of the state freight operator. Until December 2024 the group carried freight on Estonian railways and maintained and repaired rolling stock under the name AS Operail; it left wagon leasing and Finnish freight by the owner's decision by the start of 2023; in February 2024 the government decided to privatise the remaining business lines; the two-stage auction opened on 7 June 2024, the best binding bid was made by the Estonian company AS Tiigi Keskus, the sale and purchase agreement was signed on 31 October 2024 and the business together with the subsidiary Operail Repairs OÜ passed to the new owner on 10 December 2024. The legal entity left with the state, AS Raudtee Varad (registry code 11575850) and its subsidiary RV Leasing Finland Oy, does no active business, has no employees, and holds Russian-owned open wagons that are frozen assets which sanctions forbid returning to Russia or buying out (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Operail OÜ · About the company — 'An Estonian capital based railway company with international reach – we transport goods, maintain and repair rolling stock, and build locomotives'; 38 locomotives of the C30-M, C36-7i and TEM TMH types; the government decided in February 2024 to divest all business segments and the sale to AS Tiigi Keskus completed on 31 October, with Operail continuing on the railway as a private company from December 2024 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)

Rail Baltica is bought on two l…line-wide contracts are let from RigaRail Baltica is bought on two levels and only one of them is Estonian. The implementing body publishes the split: RB Rail AS, the joint venture seated in Riga, runs the cross-border work, the studies and design with a large common element, and the consolidated construction-materials procurements where a joint purchase gives scale, while each Baltic state runs the construction on its own territory. The Estonian exposure to the line-wide side is visible in the consolidated ballast framework RBR2022/14, advertised by RB Rail AS on 19 July 2022 in six delivery-region lots — lot 1 Tallinn and lot 2 Pärnu in Estonia, lot 3 Iecava and lot 4 Skulte in Latvia, lot 5 Panevėžys and lot 6 Kaunas in Lithuania — and resolved on 16 March 2026 in three award notices on one procedure identifier. The Iecava lot was awarded at EUR 53,625,000 to Baltic Stone Terminal OU with Bremanger Querry AS and Graniet Import Benelux BV; the Panevėžys lot closed without a winner on chan-need; and the Pärnu, Skulte and Kaunas lots closed without a winner on 'other'. Each of those five lots is named by its delivery region in the award notices' own title-lot field. The two facts that matter on the Estonian side are that the Pärnu-region lot closed with no winner and that the Tallinn-region lot, lot 1 of the 2022 notice, has no published outcome at all

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● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract notice 391326-2022, 19 July 2022 — Konsolidētās dzelzceļa balasta piegādes Rail Baltica dzelzceļa līnijas būvniecībai, buyer RB Rail AS (Riga), reference RBR 2022/14, CPV 14212310, divided into six delivery-region lots named in section II.2.1: lot 1 Tallinn and lot 2 Pērnava (Pärnu) in Estonia, lot 3 Iecava and lot 4 Skulte in Latvia, lot 5 Paneveža (Panevėžys) and lot 6 Kauņa (Kaunas) in Lithuania, each for 84 months. The notice predates eForms and the TED Search API returns no title-lot or description-lot for it; the lot list was read from the rendered notice in a browser session on 14 September 2026 (published 2022 · checked 2026-09-14)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 180916-2026, 16 March 2026 — RB Rail AS consolidated ballast framework RBR2022/14, EUR 53,625,000 on the lot TED identifies as LOT-0000, to Baltic Stone Terminal OU, Bremanger Querry AS and Graniet Import Benelux BV (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 178263-2026, 16 March 2026 — RB Rail AS consolidated ballast framework RBR2022/14: LOT-0005 closed without a winner, clos-nw, non-award justification chan-need (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) · Contract award notice 178659-2026, 16 March 2026 — RB Rail AS consolidated ballast framework RBR2022/14: LOT-0002, LOT-0004 and LOT-0006 each closed without a winner, clos-nw, non-award justification other (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia · Hanked — the buyer's own statement of the division of procurement between RB Rail AS and the three national implementing bodies (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● EU Vocabularies (Publications Office) · Non-award justification authority table — ins-fund 'Decision of the buyer, because of insufficient funds', all-rej 'All tenders, requests to participate or projects were withdrawn or found inadmissible', other (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Iepirkumu uzraudzības birojs (Latvian Procurement Monitoring Bureau) · Public procurement search endpoint, GET https://infob.iub.gov.lv/api/search?searchPhrase=true&withInflections=true&query=RBR2022%2F14 — queried for the RB Rail reference RBR2022/14 and answering HTTP 200 with response header x-total-count 0, x-count 0 and an empty JSON array, i.e. the Latvian register publishes no record under that reference (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

The National Audit Office of Es…cost estimate quadrupled to 2023The National Audit Office of Estonia published a joint review with its Latvian and Lithuanian counterparts on 11 June 2024, based on information gathered to 7 June 2024. Its own wording is that the expected costs of implementing the Rail Baltica project have grown more than fourfold, from EUR 5.8 billion in 2017 to EUR 23.8 billion in the draft of the new cost-benefit analysis for 2023, and that on the new project budgets and the money already allocated Estonia needs EUR 2.7 billion more to finish, Latvia EUR 7.6 billion and Lithuania EUR 8.7 billion. It records that the three states decided to deliver the project in two phases so as to keep the 2030 deadline set in EU law and to manage the increased costs, that the first phase is to be completed at least five years later than the original schedule and in reduced scope — local stops built later or to minimum functionality, one pair of rails in places rather than two — and that this reduces the estimated costs to 2030 in Estonia from EUR 4 billion to EUR 3.1 billion, in Latvia from EUR 9.6 billion to EUR 6.4 billion and in Lithuania from EUR 10.2 billion to EUR 5.4 billion, with the additional funding needed for the whole project falling to EUR 10.1 billion of which EUR 1.8 billion is Estonia's share. Because the document is a review and not an audit, the audit offices gave no recommendations. The review has not been updated since June 2024

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● Riigikontroll (National Audit Office of Estonia) · Eesti, Läti ja Leedu riigikontrolli ühine ülevaade Rail Balticu projekti kohta, 11 June 2024 (published 2024-06-11 · checked 2026-09-13)
● Riigikontroll (National Audit Office of Estonia) · Press release, 12 June 2024 — the page's own <time> stamp reads 2024-06-12 and the release's dateline reads 'TALLINN – RIIA – VILNIUS, 12. juuni 2024'. The joint report itself and the auditees' reply letters are dated 11 June 2024, and the Auditor General's separate comment on the report is also dated 12 June 2024: Baltimaade riigikontrollide ühisaruanne — Rail Balticu projekti ähvardab hinnanguliselt 10–19 miljardi eurone eelarvepuudujääk (published 2024-06-12 · checked 2026-09-14)

Buyers

Buyer	Type	Tenders	Contracts awarded
OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia	High-speed rail SPV	30	42
Aktsiaselts Eesti Raudtee	Infrastructure manager	14	14
Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport	Transit authority	2	2
Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts	Infrastructure manager	1	1
Kliimaministeerium	National rail HQ	1	1
AS Eesti Liinirongid	National operator	1	0
Konkurentsiamet	Regulator / standards	0	0
Operail OÜ	National operator	0	0
Tarbijakaitse ja Tehnilise Järelevalve Amet	Regulator / standards	0	0
Transpordiamet	Regulator / standards	0	0

Tenders

Tender	Buyer	Status	Value band	Next key date
Tallinna Linnatransport eleven trams option eleven	TLT	Open	$100–500m	Closes November 2026
Eesti Raudtee CCS modules Tapa Narva	Eesti Raudtee	Open	no value published on the notice	Closes October 2026
Elron Rail Baltica regional passenger rolling stock	Elron	Bids closed	no value published on any notice of the procedure	Bids closed September 2026 · award expected
Rail Baltic Estonia main line Ülemiste border	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	over $1bn	Awarded May 2025
Eesti Raudtee Aegviidu Tapa Tartu electrification	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded February 2023
Eesti Raudtee CCS systems six sections fifty stations	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded November 2020
Rail Baltic Estonia Raplamaa IV Alu Kärpla	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$100–500m	Awarded September 2024
Rapla–Lelle complex rebuild 160 km/h	Edelaraudtee	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded September 2023
Eesti Raudtee Tapa Narva contact line	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded December 2024
Eesti Raudtee Lagedi Aegviidu contact line	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded March 2024
Rail Baltic Tallinna Vesi Linda terminal south	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded August 2026
Rail Baltic Estonia Ülemiste 1520mm infrastructure	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded March 2023
Rail Baltic Estonia Harjumaa stage I	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded January 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Harjumaa II Soodevahe Kangru	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded September 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Harjumaa III Kangru Saku	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded November 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Harjumaa IV Saku Harju	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded August 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Harjumaa V Soodevahe	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded July 2025
Rail Baltic Estonia Pärnumaa I Selja Tootsi	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded February 2025
Rail Baltic Estonia Raplamaa stage I	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded February 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Raplamaa II Loone Hagudi	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded February 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Raplamaa III Hagudi Alu	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded July 2024
Rail Baltic Estonia Raplamaa V Kärpla Selja	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded March 2025
Rail Baltic Estonia Ülemiste terminal railway structures	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded April 2023
Rail Baltic Estonia Ülemiste Linda terminal	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded May 2025
Old City Harbour Rail Baltica Ülemiste tram line	TLT	In execution	$25–100m	Awarded August 2022
Eesti Raudtee Kaarepere Tartu curve straightening	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded January 2024
Kiltsi–Rakke–Vägeva capital repair stations	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded February 2025
Palupera–Puka curve straightening and repair	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded July 2025
Eesti Raudtee Tapa Kaarepere capital repair	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded August 2023
Eesti Raudtee Tapa Narva curve straightening	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded March 2025
Electrical connections Jõgeva Tapa Tartu stage II	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded January 2023
Electrical connections traction substations stage III	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2023
Manual snow clearing points 2024–2027	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded October 2024
Railway crane purchase	Eesti Raudtee	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded November 2024
Tartu–Riga passenger service public service contract	Ministry of Climate	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2025
Rail Baltic Alu viaduct Sikeldi animal tunnel	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2023
Rail Baltic Transpordiamet Juula state road 27	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2023
Rail Baltic Estonia Kangru junction viaducts	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded September 2023
Rail Baltic Transpordiamet Parila state road 28	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2023
Rail Baltic Transpordiamet Saku-Tõdva Tõdva-Hageri viaducts	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded November 2023
Rail Baltic Tallinn Ülemiste Kantsi tunnel stage 1	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded June 2026
Rail Baltic Lepplaane ecoduct Kivisilla viaduct	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded April 2023
Rail Baltic Rae viaduct Vaskjala bridge canal	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2023
Rail Baltic Estonia Ülemiste formation works	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded May 2025
Rail Baltic Estonia Tagadi ecoduct Harju county	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded December 2022
Rail Baltic Estonia Ülemiste terminal north	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded July 2024
Rail Baltic Harjumaa stages II III IV supervision	Rail Baltic Estonia	In execution	$5–25m	Awarded March 2025
Rail Baltic Estonia Ülemiste depot stage 2	Rail Baltic Estonia	Cancelled	$25–100m	Date March 2026
Rail Baltic Kangru junction viaducts first procedure	Rail Baltic Estonia	Cancelled	value not published on the notice	Date June 2023

Cities

City	Network status	Networks
Tallinn	operational — seat of AS Eesti Raudtee, OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia, AS Eesti Liinirongid (Elron), Operail OÜ and Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport, and of the rail safety authority TTJA and the rail regulatory body Konkurentsiamet; the 1520/1524 mm node where the Tallinn–Keila–Paldiski, Tallinn–Tapa and Tallinn-Väike–Lelle lines meet, and the city whose tram network is the only urban rail system in this file. No metro. Rail Baltica's Estonian terminus is the Ülemiste joint terminal, named Linda, under construction to a Zaha Hadid Architects and Esplan design with completion expected in 2028	Tallinn tram network (Aktsiaselts Tallinna Linnatransport); Ülemiste rail node (AS Eesti Raudtee); Rail Baltica Ülemiste joint terminal 'Linda' (OÜ Rail Baltic Estonia)
Pärnu	operational on the 1520/1524 mm Lelle–Pärnu line managed by Edelaraudtee aktsiaselts, and the site of Estonia's second Rail Baltica international passenger terminal, planned at Papiniidu; the implementing body states that the terminal construction tender was to be advertised in summer 2026 with completion planned for 2030, and no such notice had been published on TED by the run date
Tartu	operational — the southern end of the Tapa–Tartu line and the junction for Tartu–Valga and Tartu–Koidula; the terminus of the first stage of the Eesti Raudtee electrification programme, whose catenary works on the Aegviidu–Tapa–Tartu direction the manager states will finish in autumn 2026
Narva	operational — the eastern border station on the Tapa–Narva line, with 1,500 m usable station tracks and Siemens Simis IS interlocking; Eesti Raudtee's Tapa–Narva catenary and traction substation contract and its CCS renewal both run to this section, and the manager records border-station capacity utilisation at Narva of 7.5 per cent in 2025
Tapa	operational — the junction where the Tallinn–Narva and Tapa–Tartu lines divide and the pivot of both national programmes: the first 25 kV AC traction substation in Estonia was energised here together with the Aegviidu–Tapa contact line, and the Tapa station interlocking was the first section of the CCS renewal completed
Rapla	operational on the Edelaraudtee Tallinn-Väike–Lelle–Viljandi line, whose Rapla–Lelle section Edelaraudtee rebuilt under a EUR 24.1m design-and-build contract whose published scope is a complex rebuild of the infrastructure to raise train speed to 160 km/h, and the county through which the largest single block of Rail Baltica main-line works runs — five construction contracts across the Raplamaa stages I to V, plus a planned Rail Baltica local stop
Viljandi	operational — the southern terminus of the Edelaraudtee Tallinn-Väike–Lelle–Türi–Viljandi line, not electrified and not on the Rail Baltica route
Valga	operational — the southern border station to Latvia on the Tartu–Valga line, with 850 m usable station tracks; the interchange for the Tartu–Riga international service that the Ministry of Climate awarded to Elron in December 2025, and the Estonian station with the highest published border capacity utilisation, 21.1 per cent in 2025

Players with a footprint here

Player	Kind	Footprint
GRK	Civil contractor	Project presence
Järelpinge	Engineering consultant	Project presence
Verston	Civil contractor	Project presence
GoTrack	Track & electrification contractor	Project presence
Merko	Civil contractor	Project presence
TREF Nord	Civil contractor	Project presence
TREV-2	Civil contractor	Project presence
Tariston	Civil contractor	Project presence
ATEMO	Civil contractor	Project presence
Ingerop	Engineering consultant	Project presence
KMG Infra	Civil contractor	Project presence
Bouygues TP	Civil contractor	Project presence
Elektrilevi	Other	Project presence

What changed

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2026-09-28 — Rail Baltic Estonia tenders supervision and consultancy for the track-bed substructure at Ülemiste and stage I of the Kantsi tunnel.
2026-09-28 — Elron tests its Škoda trains at night between Tapa and Tamsalu for the first time.

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