Yamal Railway is a railway operator in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia.^[2][3]

Main information

The company was created in 2003 by the Yamal administration and Russian Railways.

The main activity is the operation of the lines Korotchaevo – Novy Urengoy–Nadym and Korotchaevo–Novy Urengoy–Yamburg.^[4][2]

Projects of the Yamal railway company:

• The completion and restoration of the railway line Obskaya–Salekhard–Nadym;
• The construction of new railway line midnight – art Ob-2 (the project was suspended in February 2012 in the absence of reliable data on the availability of industrial mineral reserves on the Eastern slope of the Urals);
• The completion and restoration of the line Korotchaevo–Igarka.^[2]

The branch Novy Urengoy–Pangody–Nadym was restored in the 1970s, part of the Transpolar mainline.^[5]

Plans

The company develops the Obskaya – Polunochnoye railway construction project along the Eastern slope of the Ural mountains. Investment substantiation for construction of railway track prepares Saint-Petersburg company. Preliminary costs will be not less than 62 billion.

The company also expects to recover the Labytnangi – Nadym Transpolar mainline, which was abandoned in 1953.

Construction of the Obskaya – Polunochnoye railway and full recovery of Transpolar railway required the construction of a bridge across the Ob river. The agreement on construction of the combined rail and road bridge across the Ob was signed in December 2008 by the administration of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Federal Agency of railway transport of Russia.^[6]

Ownership

Owners of JSC Yamal Railway Company as of December 2015:^[7]

• Open Joint-Stock Company "Razvitiya Corporation" (55%)
• Russian Railways (45%)