#Viadukti (Viadukt)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
#Viaduct. Carrying the #TallinnVäike narrow-gauge railway line.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Infrastructure #Taristu
#Railway #Raudtee
#Transport

#Auru [põik] (Aur)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Steam, vapor, as per its daddy post (Auru#), but it’s not that. It’s the #põik. The word has no cut-and-dried etymology, or even definition. Short for #põiktänav, it evolved out of a pool of terms across the FU landscape originally referring to
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Veduri.

View along Veduri, Tallinn, from the Viadukti / Veerenni direction.

Modernized house in Veduri, Tallinn.

View of the end of Veduri, Tallinn

#Veduri (Vedur)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Locomotive, iron horse. Interesting: #vedama means to draw or pull, and #vedu:veo means draught or conveyance, but #vee is water and, in many countries, the traditional course of long-distance haulage was the #river.
#Railways #Raudteed
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Tendri.

Tallinn streetsign displaying Tendri's former street name, Veduri, in Estonian above, and in Russian, partially obliterated, below.

View along Tendri, Tallinn, in the direction of Auru.

View along Tendri, Tallinn, in the direction of Söe põik.

#Tendri (Tender)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Tender, the wagon behind the locomotive, carrying coal, other fuel or equipment. ‘Street’ renaming the former SW section of #Veduri. Actually just a gravel path from #Auru connecting with #SöePõik by a 10-plank wooden footbridge.
#Railways #Raudteed
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Luite.

House with bold red fence in Luite, Tallinn.

Rivulet, or stream, or underground drainage from lake Ülemiste in Luite, Tallinn.

Handicraft of handicraft tools on a shed in Luite, Tallinn.

#Luite (Luide) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Dune, sand-drift. After the sandy islets in nearby Lake #Ülemiste (see also #Leete).
#Geography #Geograafia
#Sand #Liiv
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Renniotsa tunnel.

Entrance to Renniotsa tunnel, Tallinn, from Veerenni.

View inside Renniotsa tunnel, Tallinn, from Veerenni, with noticeable absence of graffiti.

Access slope to/from Renniotsa tunnel, Tallinn, towards south side of Peterburi tee.

Renniotsa (Renniots)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite #Ülemistejärve
Channel end. Pedestrian underpass continuing ESE from Veerenni beneath Järvevana and Peterburi. Not the most exciting destination for wildlife photography, but here we are...
#Infrastructure #Taristu
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign *not* displaying the name Vile, but 'Eramaa', or private land/property...

Letterbox of No.8 Vile, Tallinn, with hint of barrier and road behind it.

Side view of two Quonset huts behind two trees I do not recognise but expect any Estonian to instantly rebuke me for my ignorance in Vile, Tallinn.

View of an abundant garden in Vile, Tallinn.

#Vile (Vile)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Whistle. One of a small locomotive-themed group next to Tallinn-Väike station. Street seemingly appropriated as private property. See Auru.
#Railways #Raudteed
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Söe põik.

Footpath and bridge between Söe põik and Tendri in Tallinn.

View along Söe põik, Tallinn, in the direction of Tendri, with ditch to the left.

Car park in Tendri or Söe põik, Tallinn (with car parked in a *very* grassy field). Either the grass will be cut one day, or nature will reclaim its own.

#Söe põik (Süsi)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Coal, charcoal, carbonic. One of a small #locomotive-themed group next to #Tallinn-Väike station. Close to lake #Ülemiste, the Luite sub-district is riddled with rivulets big and small, although more and more are piped underground. Not here. See #Tendri.

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Veerenni põik.

View along Veerenni põik, Tallinn, from the Veerenni direction.

View along Veerenni põik, Tallinn, in the Veerenni direction.

House in Veerenni põik, Tallinn.

#Veerenni põik (Veerenn)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Side-road on the southern end of #Veerenni essentially serving the Espak building materials company and a few residential houses on the northern side of the road.
#BuildingMaterials #Ehitusaterjalid
#Construction #Ehitus

#Siduri (Sidur)
Clutch (of cars, not chickens). The word can also mean coupler, the device used for attaching railway wagons together, particularly tempting since the street is within the Tallinn-Väike railway street set, but no...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
#Engineering #Tehnika
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#Veerenni (Veerenn)
Channel, gutter, conduit, flume, lit. ‘water groove’. The -renn ending comes from German Rinne, channel or gutter, see Pikk. Records of the 4-km canal supplying...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Veerenni #Luite
#TownPlanning #Linnaplaneerimine
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Groß-Batteriestraße (1942), following its earlier appellation of #Köismäe tee / #Reperbahn(straße) or ropemakers’ street. Also, according to TT, once called #НаКосе (Na kose, [nothing to do with Kose] translating as #luitel, see #Luite),
#Trades #Kaubandused
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Vee (Vesi)
Water. After the tower supplying trains on the Tallinn-Väike railway line. Water seems to share a rather confusing pool of common ancestors from very far back, with Est. & Finn. vesi and Uralic *weti corresponding to PIE root *wed-,
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
#Railways #Raudteed
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#Auru (Aur)
Steam, vapor (Auru välja laskma: to let off steam). Named for the nearby steam-engines in the railway shunting-lines. One of a small locomotive-themed group next to #TallinnVäike station. See #Suitsu.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

#Leete (Leede)
Sands, sandbank, podzol. Due to its proximity to the sands of Lake Ülemiste. See also #Luite.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Sand #Liiv

#Söe (Süsi)
Coal, charcoal, carbonic. One of a small #locomotive-themed group next to #TallinnVäike station. See #Tendri.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Luite
Special request for our #FinnoUgric #folklore, #linguistics, Luite and #railways enthusiasts 😉