25. Dec 2009 @ 02:13 First Train Tartu - Valga - Riga Travel Event
FYI
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This is a message to inform you about a meeting you
might be interested in.

This is the first international railway travel event
from Tallinn/Tartu to Riga!

There has been no passenger train connection between
Tallinn/Tartu and Riga for more then 11 years, until
this December the Estonian passenger railway company
Edelaraudtee and its Latvian counterpart Pasažieru
Vilciens managed to fix together the timetables of
Valga-Riga train and the new fast train from Tartu to
Valga. The first train starts the 1st of January
morning at 6.40 from Tallinn and at 10.00 from Tartu.
We'll arrive at Valga at 11.33 and take the 11.42
train, which should arrive at Riga at 15.03. A detailed
timetable is at
http://www.edel.ee/images/uploads/file/Valga_Riia_2010%283%29.pdf

I told to the Estonian and Latvian railway companies
that there are a lot of us who want to travel
ecologically and comfortably by train in the Baltic
States. I promised to Edelaraudtee and Pasažieru
Vilciens to gather a good bunch of international
passengers who want to experience the first train in
case they succeed to create the connection. And they
succeeded! So, let's take the train!

I'd be glad to get suggestions from you for our travel
programme: it's not fixed yet! Anyway, in Tartu there
will be a New Year party!
In Riga I have planned a Pro Rail Baltica gathering in
the evening of 1. January - but where and when, that's
still open for your ideas! Maybe we would like to have
a pique-nique in the trains (without alcohol of
course)? Any more special ideas?

The one-way ticket from Tallinn to Tartu costs about 10
€, from Tartu to Riga most probably another 10 €.
The tickets can be bought in the trains in Estonian
currency.

The travellers may need hosts in Tallinn or Tartu 31
December to 1 January, and in Riga at least from 1 to 2
January. I hav already 8 train traveller guests in
Tartu, and Elise has 10 guests in Riga!


Registration

If you want to join the event mailing list, please fill
in your data in http://train-to-riga.blogspot.com/ or
write me at santeri.junttila at helsinki.fi!
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