1. SKIERNIEWICE-LUKOW RAILROAD LINE 2. BROAD GAUGE TRACKS IN POLAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100730004-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 23, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 31, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2004/07/29 : CIA-RDP80-0081 OA004100730004-2
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT I. Skierniewice-Lukow Railroad Line
2. Broad Gauge Tracks in Poland
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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
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25X1.1. The Skierniewice-Lukow railroad line, on which construction was begun in 1951,
is retorted to be read
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STATE I X )ARMY X NAVY X AIR
The new line is normal gauge but will, according to a report, be also provided
with a bra=d a e t
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Garwolin and is 116 kilometers lan~y.
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s this year. It now goes via Grojec,
Czachowek (on the Warsaw-Radom-Krakow line), Gora Kalwaria (where it bridges
he Wisla River)
nd
n spate of rumors to the contrary, no new Polish tracks with wide gauge
ve been observed. There probably are none, other than the Elbia -Braniewo
,(-Kaliningrad, German K8nigsberg) line which has both narrow and broad gauge,
and the short sectors near the Soviet border in the provinces of Bialystok,
Lublin and Rzeszow, some of which have wide and. narrow gauge, as for example,
the Mala$zewice-Terespol-Brest Litovsk and,Zurawica-Przemyli'-Medyka'Lvov_
lines.
$ ee up (sic) at all the interchanges on the line. This was
alleged to have been carried out earlier on the Lukow-Terespol-Brest Litovsk and
Warsaw nice-.Grodno lines and possibly on several of the other east west
Ira~.7:x~ed, ,ections,
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