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Now largely merged with the Tallinn-Pärnu and Tallinn-Viljandi lines, the one-time narrow-gauge (see Kitsarööpa) railway line was started in 1901. It ran from the Felliner Bahnhof II aka Willjandi Waksal II (Viljandi Station II, demolished 1979) within the Petrooleumi, Tuukri, Narva triangle, via a temporary station at Odra from 1941-44, to Veski Post on Tehnika and then to what used to be called Tallinna Peajaam (Tallinn Main Station), now Tallinn-Väike, connecting the narrow-gauge to the broader track running to either Peterburi or Paldiski. From here, the line* continued through:
- Liiva
- Valdeku (called Valdeki on some maps TBC)
- Männiku
- Saku
- Kasemetsa
- Kiisa
- Roobuka
- Vilivere
- Kohila
- Lohu
- Hagudi
- Rapla
- Lelle
- Käru
- Kolu
- Türi**.
See Elron map for details.
* Stations printed in green indicate new stops on today's same route.
** List of stations may not be complete. I'm not a booking-agent. Try trainline dot com.
Kauba (Kaup)
Goods, wares, merchandise, due to street leading to Tallinn-Väike. A mongrel loanword to say the least. Earliest focal root is probably Lat. caupo (innkeeper or trader), synonymous or shared with copo (the female of which is copa, ±barmaid*), and seems to have spread northward with Roman soldiers, becoming *kaupa-n (to trade/trader) in West Germanic, evolving into the usual culprits of Ger. Kauf, Swedish köp, etc., as well as Old Eng. cīepa and cēap, ending up as ‘cheap’. It spread north-eastward to Dan. Copenhagen, København (±trading ‘haven’, but see Hobusepea) of earliest recorded name (11th C ) Køpmannæhafn (Traders’/Merchants’ harbor). Further east again, it lent itself to Finnish for ‘city’, kaupunki (market place), via an archaic dialect or earlier Eastern Scandinavian *köupungR or Old Gutnish *kaupunger. Street previously called Frachtstraße / Waarenstraße (freight or goods, in Ger.), and Товарная (other than its smiling brotherly ‘Comrade’, Rus. Tovarich seems also to have meant someone with whom a sharing of goods or commodities, property or cattle, was involved).
* That Lat. cupa or cuppa (large wooden jar or barrel), generating Eng. cup, Fr. coupe, etc., is related is both very tempting but uncertain.
Türi (Türi)
Town in Järvamaa. Street running parallel to the railway track at Tallinn-Väike, and terminus of the group of streets named for stations on the Tallinn-Türi Kitsarööpa line.
