Tondi railway station () is a railway station in

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

, the capital of

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. It is located on the border of Tondi and

Kitseküla Kitseküla (Estonian for ''"Goat Village"'') is a subdistrict () of the district of Kesklinn (Midtown) in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 4,053 (). Kitseküla is situated between two railway corridors so there are seve ...

subdistricts. It is the third station on Elron's western route, located between and stations. It is situated beside the level crossing of Tondi street, and is one of two places in Tallinn where the commuter train and

tram A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which Rolling stock, vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some ...

stations are conjoined (the other is the terminus Balti jaam). The station is served by all commuter trains heading to

Keila Keila () is a town and an Municipalities of Estonia, urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia, southwest of Tallinn. As of 2021, the town has a population of 10,499 inhabitants. Keila is also the location of administrative b ...

Paldiski Paldiski is a seaside Populated places in Estonia, town in northwestern Estonia, located on the Pakri Peninsula and adjacent Pakri Islands, Pakri islands in the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. It is the administrative centre of the Lääne- ...

, Riisipere and

Kloogaranna Kloogaranna is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County, Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the B ...

. It consists of two 167 metre platforms. Although the Tallinn–

railway existed already in 1870, a station on the site was opened in 1933. The line from Tallinn to back then a nearby town Nõmme (as far as Pääsküla) was electrified already in 1924. In 1933 the tram line was drawn out to the new station building and a depot was built. The station building was closed to the public in 1998 and remained in very bad condition. In 2006 it was declared a cultural heritage monument. In 2012 the old platforms were replaced with new lower ones. The upper wooden part of the station building was also demolished after several fires. Since the building was a cultural heritage monument, the elements of the building were charted and the plans of restoring it in the genuine appearance still remain. It is planned to convert the level crossing into a railway viaduct in the future to reduce the traffic congestion during the rush hours. File:Tondi_raudteejaama_peahoone.jpg, The station building in 2011. File:Tondi trammi- ja elektrirongipeatus.jpg, The station building and the tram depot in 2008. File:Tondi raudteepeatus.jpg, Tondi station with old platforms in 2009. File:Tondi_raudteeülesõit.jpg, Level crossing of Tondi street.

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Eesti Raudtee AS Eesti Raudtee (') known as Eesti Raudtee or EVR is the national railway infrastructure company of Estonia. It owns a network of of broad gauge () railway throughout the country, including the used by the Elron commuter trains around Tallin ...

(EVR) – the national railway infrastructure company of Estonia responsible for most of the Estonian railway network
Official website
of Elron – the national passenger

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of Estonia operating all domestic

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services Railway stations in Estonia opened in 1933 Transport in Tallinn Buildings and structures in Tallinn {{Estonia-transport-stub

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