INTRODUCE SUMMER SCHEDULES; RR LOADING AND HAULING IMPROVE

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• Document Release Date: August 29, 2011
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• Publication Date: July 28, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Transportation - Railroads
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PUBLISHED Thrice-weekly newspaper
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PUBLISHED Moscow
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PUBLISHED 5 Mar - 24 May 1950
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INTRODUCE SUMMER SCHIDULES;
RR LOADING AND HAULING IMPROVE
TO INCREASE OPERATIONS -- Gudok, No 58, 14 May 50
The summer schedule to be put into effect in the near future provides not
only for fulfilling but also for exceeding the state plan for freight hauling.
At present, the level of carloadings is already considerably above the level
provided for by the last year of the Five-Year Plan.
The summer schedule provides for an increase in the volume of traffic of
126,000 train-kilometers over the 1949 schedule .and increase:. of 357,000
train-kilometers over lg!;0. The average train weight will be increased by 27
tons in comparison with 1949 and by 119 toffs in comparison with 1940. Average
speed excluding stops will be increased 3.3 percent in comparison with 1949
and on 20 railroad systems will be higher than the prewar level. Average speed
including stops will be increased by 3.5 percent and on the whole railroad net-
work will be higher than in 1940. On the Perm' Railroad System, average daily
locomotive runs will be 29 kilometers higher than the 1949 figure su1 52 kilo-
meters abovetthe prewar figure. Passenger traffic will be increased by 33,000
train-kilometers in comparison with the summer of 1949?
The summer schedule, by reducing stops at intermediate stations.and.cut-
ting down running time, permits an acceleration by 3 hours of freight-car turn- _
around time. This can release more than 10,000 cars Prom the freight-car park,?
given the same amount of freight hauling. The yearly saving will be about 240
,million rubles. The anticipated acceleration of locomotive turnaround time by
one hour will permit a reduction of the number of operating locomotives by hun-
dreds and will save about 350 million rubles per year.
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SUMMER SCHEDULE GOES INTO EFFECT -- Gudok, No 62, 24 May 50
The summer schedule for train traffic went into effect at midnight Mos-
cow time 21 May throughout the USSR railroad network. During the first 2 days,
the operations of 23 railroad systems were affected 90-100 percent according
to the new schedule.
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However, there are many railroad systems where the schedule has not yet
become the foundation of all carrying activity. During the second 5 days of
May, only 27 percent of all freight trains ran according to the schedule on
the Kuybyshev System; the figure was 30 percent on the Krasnodar System and
32 percent on the South Ural and Southeastern systems.
RR TRANSPORT. BECOMES PROFITABLE -- Gudok, No 44, 12 Apr 50
In 1949, railroad transport became one of the profitable branches of
the national economy as a result of an increase in the productivity of labor,
a reduction of the cost of freight hauling, introduction in many places of
mean progressive norms, and also as a result of many organization measures,
such as the introduction of new freight rates, a change in the system of
planning and distributing income from freight hauling between the railroad
systems, and transfer of basic enterprises to cost accounting.
However, these successes cannot mask the fundamental fact that railroad
transport is still lagging in regard to the decisive qualitative index. Freight-
car turnaround time is still slow, the trar_tive effort of locomotives is poorly
utilized, there are still overexpenditures of fuel in the face of the general .
fuel savings, losses from damaged freight are still great, etc. There are some
administrators who are interested only in making the r;heels turn, and pay no
attention to the economic aspects of railroad operation. In March, the Sverd-
lovsk Railroad System completed the freight-hauling plan, but used 60 extra
locomotives and increased freight-car turnaround time by 32.2 hours, causing
the state a loss of 18 million rubles.
APRIL CARLOADING PLAN COMPLETED -- Gudok, No 54, 5 May 5C
The state plan .for carloadings and unloading for April was completed by
the USSR railroad network as a whole. Freight-car turnaround time was accel-
erated by 0.5 day in comparison with March. All liabilities in regard to car-
loadings accumulated during the winter months were liquidated.
The four-month plan for carloadings was completed ahead of schedule by
the Northwestern, Western, Southwestern, Central, and Central Asia railroad
okrugs and the Western, Ashkhabad, October, Vinnitsa, Leningrad, Brest-Litovsk,
Moscow-Donbass, Belorussian, Latvian, Odessa, Lithuanian, Kirov, Southwestern,
Kalinin, Kovel', Moscow-Kiev, Karaganda, Southern, Far Eastern, Turkestan-Sibe-
rian, Yaroslavl', Tomsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Southeastern, Moscow Inner Belt Line,
Moscow-Kursk, Moscow-Ryazan', Kishinev, and Estonian railroad systems. The
North Donets, South Donets, North Caucasus, Sverdlovsk, South Ural, Transcau-
casus, Stalingrad, Ordzhonikidze, Transbaykal, Azerbaydzhan, Kazan', Ryazan'?-
Ural, and Primorskiy systems completed and exceeded the April plan for car-
loadings, but did not eliminate the liabilites incurred in the first quarter.
During April, the best results in meeting the assignment for freight-car
turnaround ti:ae were achieved by the Karaganda, Far Eastern, Moscow-Donbass,
Br?st-Litovsk, Pechora, Lativ~n, Leningrad, Western, Moscow Inner Belt Line,
Ashkhabad, Turkestan-Siberian, Amur. Vinnitsa, Kovel', Tomsk, and Moscow-Kursk
railroad systems.
ORENBURG SYSTEM REF~HES PREWAR LEVEL -- Gudok, No 28, 5 Mar 50
The Orenburg Railroad System has exceeded the prewar level for freight
hauling. In 1949, average daily carloadings exceeded the prewar level by
68.3 percent and. average daily unloadings exceeded the prewar level by 83.6
percent.
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TO IMPROVE DoNETS-VOLGA JUNCPION -- Gudok, No 59, 17 May 50
The Main Traffic Administration of the Ministry of Transportation has
taken steps to improve the situation in regard to the 3unction between the
Volga end Donets railroad okruge. A special team headed by Rudoy, head of
the Main Railroad Car Administration; has been sent to the Kuybyshev System
and the Penza railroad center. In order to accelerate the handling of the
growing freight flow from the Southeastern System, the utilization of the
Syzran'-Seanaya end Sennaya-Saratov sectors will be improved and the Penza
railroad center will be improved. The facilities of the Saratov railroad
center have been strengthened by the addition of five receiving and dispatch-
ing tracks.
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