Kitsarööpa (Kitsarööbas)

Narrow-gauge (see Kitsas) railway line (see Roopa). Back in the day, for financial reasons, narrow-gauge lines were laid for industry or relatively low passenger needs. The first one to be laid was not in Tallinn, but to service 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 significanly lower, as were speeds, the maximum authorized being 25 versts / hr (see Versta). Close to today's standard-gauge Tallinn-Paldiski line and 3 stops from Tallinn-Väike, but perhaps chosen to suggest its use as a narrow-gauge bicycle lane. Street-naming scheduled to replace Hiiumetsa and Harkumetsa in 2014. The old Tallinn-Viljandi narrow-gauge railway (often indifferently called Tallinn-Türi) was opened in 1901 as a ‘feeder’ line to the main broad-gauge railways to Moscow or the docks. TBC!