Interest in traveling by train between Baltic countries has increased.
Elron's director Kristo Mäe said that many people are using new train lines. For example, the Tallinn–Tartu–Riga train has already been used 8,287 times.
Currently, two international trains run daily: a direct train Tallinn–Tartu–Riga and a train where passengers must change in Valga (Tallinn–Tartu–Valga–Riga–Vilnius). There is an additional train on weekends.
The most passengers traveled between Tartu and Riga (7,500 passengers). This was followed by Tallinn–Riga (3,539 passengers) and Tallinn–Vilnius (1,012 passengers).
From Valga, over 10,000 people traveled to Latvia or Lithuania. Most of them went to Riga.
In the direct Tallinn–Tartu–Riga train, 42% of passengers traveled between Tartu and Riga. 13% traveled between Tallinn and Riga.
Since March, Elron has also been selling domestic Latvian tickets. From April to June, over 1,700 people traveled within Latvia. Most of them traveled between Riga and Cesise.