[5] 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.
[6] 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.
[7][8] During this time, on 8 May 2007, Russian Railways announced that the route would be cancelled with effect from 29 May [9] ostensibly due to low passenger numbers, but shortly after the Bronze Night protests in Tallinn.
GoRail announced the cancellation of the service in July 2008, citing high infrastructure and fuel costs as reasons.