GoRail

The company previously operated under the name EVR Ekspress as a division of the state railway, Eesti Raudtee. It was partially privatised on 1 April 1999, with a 51% majority share going to the Fraser Group and 49% retained by Eesti Raudtee.[http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jwr/jwr_9303.html "AS GoRail (Estonia)"], Jane's World Railways. Retrieved: 29 May 2008. The company was renamed GoRail in 2006 when it was sold to the Go Group, which operates various other travel services in Estonia, including Tallinn's main Baltic Station.

GoRail previously ran a number of variants of services from the Baltic station in Tallinn to St Petersburg and / or Moscow, in partnership with Russian Railways, which were cancelled and re-introduced a number of times.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

GoRail ran a daily daytime service from Tallinn Baltic station to St Petersburg, leaving Tallinn early in the morning and arriving in St Petersburg mid-afternoon, with a return service leaving in the early evening and arriving in Tallinn in the late evening.

After a break from 2004 services commenced during 2007.[http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/estonia.html#02 "Railway Operators in Estonia : GoRail"], railfaneurope.net Retrieved: 29 May 2008.[http://www.arileht.ee/?artikkel=379066 "Tallinn-St. Petersburg line open again on 31st March"], Eesti Päevalehel newspaper, 22 March 2007. Retrieved: 29 May 2008. {{in lang|et}} During this time, on 8 May 2007, Russian Railways announced that the route would be cancelled with effect from 29 May [http://www.ldz.lv/dc/en/aktuala_informacija/Transporta_nozares_preses_apskats/BNS_zinas/17250 "Russian Railways to end Tallinn-St. Petersburg service"]{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Latvian Railways documentation centre, 8 May 2007. Retrieved: 29 May 2008. ostensibly due to low passenger numbers, but shortly after the Bronze Night protests in Tallinn. GO Rail CEO Alar Pinsel described the Russian reasoning as "difficult to believe".[http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=21604 "New Petersburg-Tallinn Train Link Cancelled"], St. Petersburg Times, 11 May 2007. - Retrieved: 29 May 2008. The cancellation was retracted a day later,[http://www.balticbusinessnews.com/Print.aspx?ArticleID=5fe74af4-d00c-417b-bfcb-f798c469af14 "RZD denies claim of St Petersburg-Tallinn rail service closure"], balticbusinessnews.com, 9 May 2007. Retrieved: 29 May 2008. and the train service was never actually interrupted. GoRail announced the cancellation of the service in July 2008, citing high infrastructure and fuel costs as reasons.[http://balticbusinessnews.com/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=de4ad4e6-d49b-4763-b186-29e33439539a International passenger rail operator struggles to survive]balticbusinessnews.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216002446/http://balticbusinessnews.com/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=de4ad4e6-d49b-4763-b186-29e33439539a |date=16 February 2012 }}

Services then ran again, continuing to Moscow, from 2012 until they ended in 2020 at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.[http://www.gorail.ee One train three capitals! Go Rail transports passengers on international passenger train line Tallinn-St.Petersburg-Moscow] www.gorail.ee, accessed 30 May 2020

• Rail transport in Estonia
• Oktyabrskaya Railway

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• {{Official website}}
• [http://www.gorail.ee/?id=147 GoRail timetable] {{in lang|et}}
• [http://www.gogroup.ee/?id=1088 Go Group corporate site] www.gogroup.ee
• [http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/estonia/estonia_go.html GoRail locomotives] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402005100/http://www.railfaneurope.net/list/estonia/estonia_go.html |date=2 April 2012 }} www.railfaneurope.net
• [http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=140&page=Travel St. Petersburg Times tourism feature on Tallinn, mentioning GoRail]

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