Kitsarööpa (Kitsarööbas)

Narrow-gauge railway line (see Kitsas and Roopa). Back in the day, due to lower costs, narrow-gauge lines were laid for industry or relatively low passenger needs. The first one was not in Tallinn, but serviced the Kunda cement works, some 100 km to the E. At 750 mm, almost half the width of the 1435-mm standard-gauge lines, costs were significantly lower, as were speeds: the maximum authorized being 25 versts / hr (see Versta). Here, the street-name refers to the line servicing Peter the Great’s Naval Fortress (Merekindlus, see Vabaduse puiestee) with a 9-km-odd foot- and bicycle-path, starting (approx..) at Kõrgepinge and winding more or less S (oddly, unnamed) for about 3 km to Tähetorni then (named), E to the junction of Vääna & Pärnu where the Nõmme-Väike, aka Nõmme-Kindlus, station used to be, then N and E ‘along’ the former narrow-gauge track towards Rahumäe station, another one-time narrow-gauge hub, continuing E and maybe merging with Kurni and Orava before ending at the Liivametsa/Kalmistu Junction some 50 m from Liiva station, yet another one-time narrow-gauge hub.