MOSCOW-PEIPING EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE BEGUN; USSR RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION AND CONSTRUCTION, SCHEDULE CHANGES

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• Publication Date: March 29, 1954
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Rail transportation
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 9 Oct 1953-1 Feb 1954
LANGUAGE Russian
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DATE DfST. a.9 Mar 1954
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
MOSCOW-PEIPING EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE BEGUN;
USSR RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION AND CONSTRUCTION, SCREDULE CHANGES
EXPRESS PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN MOSCOW AND PEIPING -- Moscow, Izvestiya,
16 Jan 54
On 31 January 1954, express passenger train service will begin between Mos-
cow and Peiping. Seven trains will ply between the two capitals. Trains will
depart twice a week from each station, on Wednesday and Sunday from Moscow, and
on Monday and Thursday from Peiping. The complete trip will take a little more
than 8 days. The trains are equipped with comfortable accommodations and train-
to-city telephone communications for the convenience of the passengers.
At 2010 hours Moscow time on 16 January, a train departed from Moskva-Yaro-
slavskaya Station on a test run to Peiping without passengers.
The railroad personnel assigned to operate the express passenger trains
which will run between Moscow and Peiping starting 31 January were given special
courses in Chinese. They attained a minimum proficiency thus allowing them to
understand the signaling system and rules for technical operation used on the
railroads of the People's Republic of China.
At 1750 hours on 31 January,.the first Moscow-Peiping express passenger, train,
No 2, departed from Moskva-Yaroslavskaya Station for Peiping. In Peiping at 1805
hours local time, train No 1 departeL for Moscow. This train is scheduled to ar-
rive in Moscow at 1200 hours on 9 February. The crew of this train is made tip
of Soviet personnel.
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PROGRESS IN ELECTRIFICATION OF SOVIET RAILWAYS -- Moscow, Trud, 24 Nov 53
In 1953, hundreds of kilometers of railroad line were electrified. Elec-
tric trains are now running between Domodedovo and Barybino, and between Moscow
and Serpukhov on the Moscow-Kursk-Donbass Railroad System.
The electrified section from Kulomzino to Moskovka, Omsk Railroad System,
is being prepared for operation. This line will provide service for the in-
dustrial areas of Omsk. The electric trains which will operate over the line
are made at the Riga plant.
The erecting work has been completed on another section undergoing elec-
trification on the Omsk Railroad System -- ,.he stretch from Chulymskaya to Bars-
binsk.
Trial runs of electric trains have been made on the line from Boyarka to
Vasil kov on the Southwestern Railroad System.
A great deal of work is now being done in the electrification of a number
of sections of the Transcaucasus, Lvov, Omsk, and other railroad systems.
Two lines of the Moscow rail center, from Kr ukovo to Klin and from Bary-
bino to Kashira, will soon be ready for electrified operation.
The suburban traffic of electric trains is opening at Brotseula and Tskhal-
tubo in the resort area of the Caucasus.
Electrification is to be extended on the Tomsk, North Caucasus, and Trans-
caucasus railroad systems. Electric trains will also be operating soon on the
sections from Aprelevka to Nara, Moscow-Kiev Railroad System, and from Moscow to
Ryazan' on the Moscow-Ryazan' Railroad System.
It is planned that during the Fifth Five-Year Plan electrification of the
railroads will be four times greater than during the Fourth Five-Year Plan.
The longest extension will be the Novokuznetsk-Inskaya-Omsk-Chelyabinsk-Dema line,
a distance of 2,000 kilometers.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 14 Nov 53
The suburban section of the October Railroad System extending 51 kilometers
is being electrified. Most of the reinforced-concrete foundations and metal posts
have been erected. The contact wire has been erected along the whole stretch ex-
cept at the Klin and Pokrovka stations and from Podsolnechnaya to Pokrovka.
Eighteen reinforced-concrete passenger platforms have been under construction
along the line and 11 of these are completely finished. At the ^rolovskoye Sta-
tion and Stop Kilometer 582, the platforms have already been erected and will soon
be covered with asphalt.
UKRAINIAN RAILROAD WORKERS COMPLETE YEARLY CONSTRUCTION PLAN -- Kiev, Pravda
Ukrainy, 11 Nov 53
The Ukrainian Administration for the Mechanization of Construction Operations
of the Ministry of Railways USSR has fulfilled the yearly plan for railroad con-
struction by 110 percent.
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PROGRESS AND PLANNING IN CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROAD FACILITIES -- Moscow, Vechern-
yaya Moskva, 14 Nov 53
ber In 'connection with the growth of container shipments in the USSR, the num-
o; points for the reception and dispatching of package freight is being in-
creased. One hundred such points were to be opened in 1953, and in 1954 twice
as much freight will be hauled in containers as in 1953. 130,000 containers is contemplated for 1954 whereas only 100,000 ncontainersohave
been built in the past 17 years.
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 15 Nov 53
Construction workers are finishing construction of passenger station build-
ings at Yeremen'-Tau, Ekibastuzugoll, Kalkaman, and Pavlodar stations on the re-
cently completed Akmolinsk-Pavlodar railroad line.
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 26 Nov 53
Leaders of the Southern Railroad System are planning to equip 74 stations
for the handling of less-than-carload consignments carried on local trains.
Transfer and forwarding service is also to be extended to enterprises, insti-
tutions, and individuals.
The construction of freight warehouses is planned for 96 stations. The
first to receive the new warehouses are the Lozovaya, Romny, Lubny, and Khar'-
kov-Tovarnyy stations.
Loading-unloading points are to be equipped with various types of cranes,
fork-lift trucks, and motor trucks. The loading and unloading of above-norm-
weight trains and container cars will be completely mechanized.
TIME CHANGES ON BALTIC SYSTEM -- Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 9 Oct 53 _
For the cc-venience of passengers, the Tallin Division of the Baltic Rail-
road System introduced on 7 October 1553 partial changes in the schedule of elec-
tric trains No 318 and 373 operating on the Tallin-Pyaaskyula line.
Train No 318 leaves Pyaaskyula on the old schedule. However, the train
leaves Nymme at 0709 hours, Rakhumyae at 0713 hours, Yarve at 0717.5 hours', and
Tondi at 0722 nours. The train arrives in Lillekyula at 0726. hours and from this
point-on follows the old schedule.
Train No 373 leaves Tallin at 1815 hours (instead of 1807 hours), Lillekyula
at 1818.5 hours, Tondi at 1822 hours, Yarve at 1824.5 hours, Nymme.at 1831 hours,
Khiu at 1833 hours, and Kivimyae at 1835 hours. The train arrives in Pyaaskyula
at 1837 hours.
PASSENGER TRAINS MAKE RUN WITHOUT HELPER FNGINE -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
9 Oct 53
An engineer of the Sukhumi Terminal, Transcaucasus Railroad System, was the
first to operate a train on the stretch from Sukhumi to Sochi without the aid
of a helper engine. Now all of the passenger locomotive engineers operate their
trains on this stretch without helper engines. Because of this, more than 300,000
rubles will be saved annually
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