RR SYSTEMS REPORT SUCCESSES; PASSENGER SERVICE TO IMPROVE

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• Document Release Date: October 12, 2011
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• Publication Date: January 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE ACENCY
INFORMATION FROM
COUNTRY
USSR
DATE CE
INFORMATION 1949
SUBJECT
Transportation - Railroads
DATE DIST. AG .;an 1950
and thrice-weekly newspapers
PUBLISHED
USSR
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DATE
PUBLISHED
18 Nov - 1.1 Dec 1949
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
PLAN COMPLZTIWS REPORTED -- Gudok, No-148, 11 Dec 49
The Transcaucasus Railroad System completed the 1949 carloading plan
on 20 November and has exceeded considerably the level planned for 1950.
The LTvov Railroad System completed the augmented 1949 plan for carload-
i.:.gs 23 November:
The Krasnoyarsk Railroad System completed the year carlo.:ding plan cn
7 December, and has reduced the cost of freight handling by 2.8 percent against
the plan.
The Kishinev tuiizc3G System coaspla.ted the year carloading plan if November,
and has exceeded the level of try=' Tbt handling planned for 1950. Thq, eyate;m
Lns completed the 1949 Plan for capital repair of freight cars and for capital
and medium repair of treck. Freight-han.3li:tg costs have been reduced by 3.8
percent, and the productivity of labor has exceeded the planned figure by 6.2
percent.
On the Odessa. Railroad System average daily carloadings have increased 14
percent in comparison with 1948.
Gudok, No 144, 2 Dec 49
During 11 months of 1949 the Vinnitea Railroad System accelerated freight
car turnaroemd time by 1.7 hours against the year norm. In comparison with
1948, the system increased the average speed including stops by an average of
11 hours. In comparison with 1948, layover per local freight car was reduced
by 1.1 hours, which effected a saving of more than 600,000 car-hours.
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The 10-month plan for productivity of labor was exceeded by 12.8 percent,
and freight-car turnaround time in November 1949 was 11 hours less than the
for 1950 in June of 1949. The 1949 plan for freight handling was completed
on 20 November, and the 10-month carloading plan was completed 109.3 percent.
Gudok. No 146, 7 Dec 49
tures by 13.6 percent in comparison with the norm, and cut freight-handling costs
by 6,4 percent. Above-plan sa-,rings amounted to more than 10.5 million rubles, 11 .
As of 6 December, the Moscow-Donbass Railroad System had accelerated
freight-car turnaround time by 2.9 hours against the year assignment, increased
ea-aerditures by 6.4 percent against he norm. Abn e-?r 1.n profits during 10 months
totaled 27,657,000 rubles; 8,407i000 rubles were released frc working capital.
Average daily unloading increased in comparison with 1948 by 41.5 percent. Total
ore loadings rose 35.6 ferrous metals loadings increased by 45.6 percent, and
grain loadings showed a 5.1 percent increase.
MOSCOW STATION IMPROVES OPERATIONS -- Gudok, No 143, 30 Nov 49
So far in 1949 the Moscow Marshalling Station of the Moscow-Ryazan' Railroad
System has saved 120,000 rubles by reducing the cost of handling ::ach freight car.
In comparison with 1y48 the daily ca: turnover in the station has been increased
by 587 unite, with the number of cars handled by the hump showing an increase of
247 care per day. Layover of cars in transit has been reduced by 1.8 hours.
B. P. Beshchev, Minister of Transportation, has issued a special order con-
cerning the improvement of passenger service on the USSR railroad systems. In
line with this, the Ministry of Transportation has taken a number of measures to
improve passenger service.
The servicing of all express and local-express trains operating between
Moscow and Vladivostok, Tbilisi, Brest, Odessa, Riga, and Alma-Ata has been
placed under the control of the newly created Administration of Through Sleeping
Cars. In addition, more than 180 trains will be transferred to this administra-
tion. The administration continues to receive new all-metal compartmented passen-
ger cars, which are being used in trains on the Moscow-Sochi, Moscow-Kislovodsk
and Moscow-Simferopol' linen. These cars will also be used in trains dispatched
from Moscow to Tashkent, Ashkhabad, and Stalinabad.
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ment. On exceptionally long runs the bed linen will be changed every 5 days.
If the passenger desires, the porter must change the linen even oftener.
The ministry has assigned funds for the purchase of white jackets, robes,
n.nd gloves for attendants on long-distance trains.
The limit for hand baggage has been raised to 36 kilograms for adults and
to 18 kilograms for children up to 10 years. Adults can carry 16 kilograms of
hand luggage, and children can carry 8 kilograms, without charge. To carry
over this amount passengers must pay extra when purchasing tickets.
It has been decided to do capital repair on 7,000 cars. In the next
3 months all passenger trains will be transferred to electric lightir:g.
Beshchev has ordered that all compartmented cars, reserved-seat cars, and
cars with soft seats be supplied with the necessary sieepi-i accoa.nodation equip-
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