RAILROAD STATION AND TRANSIT DEPOT AT LUPIN, MANCHURIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2013
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 13, 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
to or receipt by an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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COUNTRY China REPOR
SUBJECT Railroad Station and Transit Depot DATE
at Lupin, Manchuria
DISTR. l3 October 1953
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DATE OF INFO.
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. The railroad station and, transit depot at Lupin, Manchuria is located approxi-
mately nine miles from the Soviet frontier station of Odpor. The Soviet
wide-gauge tracks extend, to the Lupin station and depot where they join
the double -tracked Manchurian line from Hailer to Lupin. Although it had
been reported that the standard gauge line was to be extended to Odpor to 50X1 -HUM
relieve traffic at the Lupin depot, no such work had been begun
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2. The Soviet Railroad Aaminiatration controls all wide-gauge track facilities
at Lupin, while the Manchurian Railroad AdMinistration controls the standard
gauge track facilities. The Soviet Railroad Administration employs approxi-
mately 300 people, of whom 100 to 120 are local inhabitants. A Soviet rail-
road employee sent from the USSR is paid exactly three times as much for the
same job as a local Soviet citizen of Russian extraction. The pay scale
for local Soviets and Chinese employees is almost equal, with the Soviets
receiving a little more. The Manchurian Railroad Administration employs
only a small number of Soviets,
3. Both the wide and standard gauge tracks end in a number of interlaced sidings
to facilitate transloading (see sketch), and there are several three-rail
tracks on which a wide gauge freight car can be moved up to a regular gauge
car. The transit area has approximately 15 platforms for transferring
freight from Soviet cars to Chinese cars. These are long enough to accomodate
a train of 20 to 25 cars. A few of them are covered and are used to store
freight which cannot be reloaded immediately because. of lack of rolling equip-
ment.
4. Heavy freight is unloaded and reloaded by both cranes and Chinese coolies.
Mobile steam cranes, shifted from one station to another as the occasion
demands, are manned by Soviet engineers while the two or three large and
several small overhead cranes are operated by both Soviet and Chinese engineers.
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5. The station and transit area has two repair depotsz
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a. The depot for the Soviet Administration is small and does only minor
repairs. It is principally concerned with checking and maintaining
the special express trains which travel twice weekly between Moscow and
Lupin.
b. The depot for the Manchurian Administration was seriously damaged during
the war and has not yet been repaired. Rolling stock in need of repair is
sent back to the Eairlar workshops.
6. The entire station area at Lupin is surrounded by barbed wire and is meticu-
lously guarded by armed Chinese soldiers who are posted at every gate and who
check entrance permits of eryployees. The permits are in booklet form and
bear a photograph, together with personal data, of the holder. They must
be renewed every six months. Employees are occasionally stopped by soldiers
and forbidden to enter certain parts of the station area.
7. Rail traffic through Lupin is heaviest from. November to February, at which
time six to eight trains pass daily through the station. The average for
the rest of the year is three to five trains. daily. Soviet freight cars are
all built of wood and are painted red) while Chinese freight cars are built
of wood or of steel and are painted gray,
8. Principal Chinese e-,L7rx,PqG to the USSR thsouga the station are grata, iron
pipespand ixon and lead ingots. Chinese imports from the USSR include
processed steel and lead) trucks, buses, cranes) tractors, and communi-
cations equipment. Soviet exports of medicines, flour and industrial
equipment to China stopped at the beginning of 1953.
9. A special sectionl to which entrance is forbidden) handles what ,are known
as "special imports" from the USSR and employs only Soviets. Heavy crates
and equipment) covered by tarpaAslins, arrive on 20-car trains and are unloaded
inside the restricted area.
10. Soviet traine are accompanied?by two or three shipping clerks who return as
soon as they have checked their freight papers. They do not wait for the
train to be unloaded.
11. In 1951 a pedestrian crossover was built over the rails in the station area
to connect Lupin with a housing project for railroad employees. There are
two or three bridges, one of which is 200 meters long) over the wide-gauge
tracks between Lupin and Cdpcx.
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This sketch sketch is not to scale nor is it accurate with regard to location or to
the number of sidings. It is presented to convey a general idea of the
station and its vicinity.
1. Lupin station. The building is two story and has a platform on both
sides, one for.Soviet and one for Chinese trains.
2. Manchurlift Railroad Administration.
3. Soviet Railro d Administration.
4. Joint Soviet-Chinese Administration building. This building has only
three rooms.
5. Lupin village.
6. Housing project for railroad employees.
7. Cdpor.
8. Sidings used principally for tank cars.
9. Sidings for reloading all other goods.
410. Soviet-Chinese border.
11. The point where the railroad cr s the border is approximately one
kilometer from Odpor and eight ters from Lupin station.
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