Amur–Yakutsk Mainline

The Amur–Yakutsk Mainline (Russian: Амуро-Якутская магистраль, Amuro-Yakutskaya Magistral), abbreviated to AYaM (Russian АЯM), is a partially complete railway in eastern Russia, linking the Trans–Siberian Railway and Baikal–Amur Mainline with the Sakha Republic.

Amur–Yakutsk Mainline
Overview
Other name(s)Yakutian Railway
Native nameАмуро-Якутская магистраль
StatusOperational
LocaleRussian Far East
Termini
  • Tynda
  • Nizhny Bestyakh
Continues fromTrans–Siberian Railway
Stations50
Service
Type
  • Regional rail
  • Freight rail
System
Operator(s)
  • Russian Railways
  • Yakutian Railway
History
Commenced5 April 1972 (1972-04-05)
Opened2 November 1976 (1976-11-02)
Completed15 November 2011 (2011-11-15)
Technical
Line length767 km (477 mi)
Number of tracks1
Track gauge1,520 mm (4 ft 11+2732 in) Russian gauge
Route map

km
Trans-Siberian Railway
Bamovskaya (km 7,273)
0
0,000
0,019
Shturm
Maly Oldoy
49
Murtygit
66
Purikan
82
Anosovskaya
(Anosovsky)
Maly Oldoy
94
Silip
Ushumun
112
Zabolotny
Tynda
133
Belenkaya
Tynda
160
Seti
Baikal–Amur Mainline
to Severobaikalsk
179
Tynda
0,000
0,000
Tynda
190
Shakhtaum
(Vostochny)
205
Bestuzhevo
0,000
0,000
225
Gilyuy
250
Mogot
Mogot
269
Rikhard Zorgye
285
Amur Oblast
Sakha Republic
border
0,000
0,285
Yakutsky
298
Nagornaya-Yakutskaya
(Nagorny)
Timpton
319
Ayam
319
Nagorny-Tunnel (
1300 m
1422 yd
)
340
Zolotinka
Iengra
357
Okurdan
Gorbyllakh
382
Oborcho
399
Berkakit
408
Neryungri-Passazhirskaya
0,000
0,416
Neryungri-Grusovaya
Chulman
Chulman
419
Denisovsky
(Serebryany Bor)
Chulman
Chulman
430
Chulman
Chulman
444
Chulbas
455
Tenisty
485
Khatymi
(Bolshoy Khatymi)
Khatyma
504
Ogonyer
548
Tayozhny
Bolshoy Nimnyr River
608
Bolshoy Nimnyr
653
Seligdar
669
Kosarevsky
686
Aldan
0,000
0,716
Kuranakh
(Nizhny Kuranakh)
Yakokit
767
Tommot
0,000
0,000
Bolotny
869
Amga
(Verkhnyaya Amga)
Kyrbykan
932
Karbykan
Ulu
962
Ulu, Russia
982
Kyurgelyakh
1,061
Khaniyerdakh
Munduruchchu
1,085
Olen
(Sakha)
Lyutenge
Lyutenka
1,136
Kyordyom
Lyutenge
Menda
1,153
Menda
1,176
Rassoloda
Tamma
1,136
Pravaya Lena
0,000
to Yakutsk
0,000
 
Lena River
1,209
Tabaga
1,228
Kyurdyugelakh
1,249
Chabyda
1,275
Yakutsk-Grusovaya
(freight)
1,284
Yakutsk-Passazhirskaya
(passenger)
1,288
Port Rechnoy
0,000
0,000
Tamma
1,195
Khaptagay
1,213
Nizhny Bestyakh
0,000
0,000
Churapcha
Megino-Aldan
Kyubyume
Sakha Republic
Magadan Oblast
border
Susuman
Orotukan
Atka
Palatka
Sokol
Magadan
km

Passenger services on the line go from Tynda to the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, opposite the river from Yakutsk. In November 2011, construction of the railway reached Nizhny Bestyakh. The final step required to bring the railway into the city itself is a combined road and rail bridge, to be constructed upstream of Yakutsk where the river is narrower.

The railway via Nizhny Bestyakh is planned in the long term to form the start of a railway towards Magadan and possibly even across the Bering Strait.

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