PROJECTED CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROAD LINES IN THE BYDGOSZCZ-TCZEW-GDANSK AREA

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• Publication Date: July 2, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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SUBJECT Projected Construction of Railroad Lines
in the Bydgoszcz??Tczew-GTd&nsk Area
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25X1 1. A conference was held at the Ministry of Railways in September 1952 with the
aim of:
a. Establishing the possiblitieez of proving operations; the main object
being to accelerate the new extensi.orts demanded in addition to those
scheduled under the Six-,Year Plan.
b. Stepping up the development of the one -usl.it system (sic) - in force on
the line We jheerowo Tczew'-MalbO:rk a (Ma:rienburg - Q 55/D 79)
c. Working this system with other sectors,:n.bove all with the central and
Silesian regions via Torun, Bydgoszcz.,. and Malbork.
The development of the_one*unit system foresees the Wejherowo, Tezew, and Malbork
railway junctions as gateways to the ports of Gdynia and Gdansk (Danzig). These
gateways will be serviced by Bydgoszcz and Torun junctions for Silesian traffic.
a. Two additional cracks will be laid from Bydgoszcz junction. on the existing
main Bydgoszcz-Tczew line.
b. The construction of a line between Bydgoszcz and Starogard is foreseen, which
will extend from Starogard via Koscierzyna-Kartuzy as far as We jherowo.
This reserve line is mainly. destined for traffic of slow goods and coal
trains to Gdynia. The main Bydgoszcz-Tczew line will connect with the
reserve line at Kartuzy following the modernization and widening of the
Tczev-Kartuzy sec.tor. This will relieve theaoad oft-the Tczew=Gdansk-
Gdynia sector.
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c. Parallel with these construction tasks, repair and modernization of the
Torun-Malbork line is foreseen. Above all., Malbork is destined to be a
junction for traffic connecting the Gdansk and Gdynia ports with the
central regions of Warsaw and Lublin.
d. The exclusive utilization to which the Malbork-Tczew sector is subjected
causes overloading to an inadmissable extent along the main TTezew-Gdansk-
Gdynia line. For this reason it has been decided to construct--- line
northwards from Malbork u to where it would intersect another line
connecting Elblag (Elbing) directly irith':Gdan kmvi.a Navy Dwor. The
projected expansion of the Elblag junction is more for strategic reasons,
it being the first junction of the line Kaliningrad-Elblag, westwards.
e. It was also decided to put into operation a direct line between Tezew and
Skarszewy, without passing a section of the main line or even Starogard.
The marshalling yards of Wejherowo, Tczew, Zajaczkowo and, in the Gdansk area
itself, the Na Zaspie (Saspe), Trojan, and 'iaski (Sanslweg):ya t.will be,greatly:?
extended or even rebuilt in order to increase the use of the ports of Gdynia
and Gdansk.
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