The line starts at Tallinn Baltic Station, runs through Northern Estonia in eastern direction and ends in Tapa, where it connects with railways to Narva and Tartu.

Lux Express announced its plans to operate the line between Tallinn and St. Petersburg with two Stadler trains.

[3] The line has a railway connection, which serves Muuga Harbour, the largest cargo port in Estonia.

Modernisation of interlocking of the stations will be made in 2014[6] and implementation of the ETCS second level is dependant from the phase of development of the technology and comes as the third stage of ERMTS implementation plan for Estonian conventional rail network in period 2019–2025.

Services are operated by Elron Stadler FLIRT trains, which replaced the DMU and EMU rolling stock of Edelaraudtee and Elektriraudtee.