CRITICISM OF SOVIET PASSENGER AND FREIGHT RAIL OPERATIONS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700160207-3
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 8, 2011
• Sequence Number: 207
• Publication Date: February 9, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION coriFlDEbITIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT ..Economic -Rail transportation
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 20 Oct-1 Nov 1953
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CRITICISM OF SOVIET PASSENGER AND FREIGRT RAIL OPERATIONS
UNI~CESSARY CAR LAYOVER TIDSE ON MOSCOW INNER BELT LINE --? Moscow, bbskovskaya
Pravda, 21 oct 53
On the Moscow Inner Belt Line the average layover time for a local car for
9 months of 1953 was 1.3 hours in excess of the time prescribed in the norm.
In September alone, car layover time during loading and unloading operations
exceeded the norm by 448,000 car-hours. Moscow trade and procurement organiza-
tions prepare inefficiently to receive vegetables, fruits and potatoes. Daily de-
lays during unloading operations result in extended idleness for several hundred
cars.
SRORTCONSNCS OF BALTIC RAILROAD SYSTEt?S -- Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 20 Oct 53
At the stations of the Shyaulyay Division, Baltic Railroad System, fish,
canned foods, melt, flour, grain, confectionery products, consumer goods, raw ma-
terials, and unfinished goods for light: industry are being shipped. Since the be-
ginning of 1953, the Shyaulyay Division has fallen more than 1,000 cars below the
loading norm.
The Klaypeda Fish Trust is especially unsatisfactory in preparing Sts prod-
ucts for loading. In August alone, the trust failed to dispatch 101 cars of fish,
and in E1 months of 1953, a total of 517 cars.
In the first 10-day period of September the trust was to load anri dispatch
146 cars, but only b9 were shipped. Because three refrigerator cars stood idle a
teta~. of 250 hours, the t,?ust paid 2,000 rubles in demurrages.
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POOR UNLOADING AREAS ON BELORUSSIAN RAILROAD SYSTEM -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Bela-
ruasiya, 22 Oct 53
A '_arge quantity of construction materials, equipment, and fuel for factories,
plants, and new construction projects of Minsk is being delivered by railroad and
unloaded at designated points. But several of the unloading areas are in a neg-
lected condition and do not have approach roads for removal of tht freight by motor
transport.
Much waste is caused by the indiscriminate piling of freight during unloading
operations. Since it is impossible for trucks to approach the freight, 'it lies
there a long time, but the railroad fails to consider this and exacts heavy de-
murrages from the clientele. At Kilometer Stop 747 lumber, stone, and firewood
are unloaded from the railroad cars in the middle of S?,i.enskaya Street in Minsk.
Therefore, it is impossible, during unloading, for traffic to pass along the street.
Nevertheless, nothing is being done about rearranging the unloading area and the
siding.
With the coming of the fall-winter period, the unloading area of Kilometer
Stop 747, where the freight ordinarily lies, is full of water and mud and is al-
most impossible to approach by truck.
The Administration of the Belorussian Railroad System and the Clientele must
improve the unloading areas so that freight can be unloaded and distributed in an
orderly manner.
POOR PASSENGER SERVICE ON THE OCTOBER SYSTEM -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 1 Nov 53
Passenger service on the October Railroad System often does not meet travelers'
needs. Four trains leave the Moscow Station for Shapki ~aily,~. But for workers
finishing work at 1AOO hours there is only one train, departing at 1855 hours, on
which there are always many passengers. The next train does not leave until 2357
hours. Thie has been brought to the attention of the Administration of the October
railroad System, but no action has yet been taker..
fteither is the administration doing anything about changing the schedule of
trains departing from Shaptii for ?.sningrad. One of these trains arrives in Lenin-
grad at 0200 hours, when the municipal transportation system is no longer in opera-
tion.
The passenger train schedule is so arranged that some trains have 15- to 20-
minute station layovers. The train leaving the Kovalevo station platform at 1737
hours for Leningrad has a ?_0-minute layover at the Rzhevka station and a 16-minute
layover at the Kushelevka station At the Kovalevo station there is no passenger
platform and the passengers have to step down directly upon the embanlanent.
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