page_title: Forest railway
section_title: Russia
hierarchical_section_title: Forest railway / Forest railways in Europe / Russia
caption_attribution_description: Русский: ТУ6А с грузовым поездом, Удимская УЖД
context_page_description: A forest railway, forest tram, timber line, logging railway or logging railroad is a mode of railway transport which is used for forestry tasks, primarily the transportation of felled logs to sawmills or railway stations.
  In most cases this form of transport utilised narrow gauges, and were temporary in nature, and in rough and sometimes difficult to access terrain.
context_section_description: Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway, passengers and tourist trains
  Apsheronsk narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Belorucheiskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Kobrinskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Konetsgorskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Kudemskaya narrow-gauge railway, passengers and tourist trains
  Loyginskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Nyubskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Lundanskaya narrow gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Oparinskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Pizhemskaya narrow gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Sharya Forest Museum Railway, passengers and tourist trains
  Udimskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
  Zelennikovskaya narrow-gauge railway, active forest railway used for forestry
caption: Russian loco TU6A with a log train on the Udimskaya Forest Railway
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