RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004900330010-4
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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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.1. The 1955 railroad construction program of the GDR has been cut by about 50
percent? The Construction of the Dammweg stop on the Berlin elevated train .
system and the construction of the Karow-Nerzahn railroad linv are the only
new projects to be included in the revised construction planet
The large construction projects such as the reconstruction of the Lichtenberg
railroad station have also been greatly reduced? The anneal allocation for this
project has been cut from 4 million eastmarks to 1 million eastmarks.
Allecations for the large Wuhlheide marshalling yard have been reduced from 8
million to 2 million eestmarks. It had been planned to spend 24 million eastmarks
on the enlargement of this installation in 1955C2
Work on the Nordwestring Berlin is scheduled to be brought to a preliminary
conclusion in 1955. The construction of the Wildpark-Mehendorf line sections
the last gap emIstng in the Nordwestring, has been eliminated from the.
construction plan.
2e Eleven bridges in the Dresden area and one bridge each in the Halle and
Erfurt areas were destroyed or damaged by floods. The total damage was
estimated at 50.400g000 eastmarks0 About 20 railroad lines were affected by
floods?
3e In view of A critical shortage of tiess the GDR Ninistry of Railroads decreed
that rails would be replaced on only 285 km of trackage instead of 415 km
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In order to remedy the shortage of tiesithe manufacture of reinforced concrete
ties is to be accelrated. The ballast plant at Retheisch near Waren wan
ordered to produce 40s000 concrete ties in 1954. Plans hare been made for the
manufacture of 2409000 ties in 1955.
4e In mideelnly 19549 the laying of a second track from the Falkenberg railroad
station to Elsterwerda was completed except for a 6-km stretch.5
5e The 1955 budget for the improvement of the Vuhlheide railroad station was
reduced from 8 million eastmarks to 2 million eastmarke02
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6. ping operations in the brown coal areas of the'Geiseltal
Valley necessitated the rerouting rf the Oeiseltal railroad
line for abolWhlikrisoe Dosigns6for the rerouted line
were to be completed by 31 Augnot 19540
The ThurftermitzBitterfeld. railroad line section is scheduled
to beereroutfd in connection with expanded brown coal mining
operations4, he project would necessitate the reconstruction
of. the Nhldenstein railroad station07
EL The 1955 railroad construction program envisaged among other
projects the double-tracking of the KeepenickeErknet0 Oruenau-
Keenigswusterhausere;. Pankoe/SdhoenhauseneBlanknburg and the
SchoetholzeBermsdorf railroad lines of .the rlin elevated
train system03
90 The reconstruction of the BuchereuZsedomeAbibeck railroad
line has been planned for 19550 'he reconstruction ofthe lift,
bridge over the Peens River near Kernin has also been planned,07
100 In mid-July 1954p it was learned that the designs for the
rerou-Wuhiheide railroad line have again been revised?
Preparations for the acquisition of ground required by
the construction of the line have been made. The occupants
of houses which would have to be razed by the construction
project were informed that they would be served evacuation
notices? Work on the construction of,the line was scheduled
to be started in the spring of 19550'
110 In early July 0 about 12 workers did construction work on the
railroad viaduct at Ofse4itz0 Steel scaffolding for concreting
work was being erected01u
120 Official railroad records dated 19 July 1954 indicated that
the emergency bridge over the Bevel River near Brandenburg
was completed? Work on the laying of the railroad rails over
this bridge was scheduled to be started on 1?July0
Subsequently)the bridge now there which was built of military
bridging equipment will be dismantled011
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gang& The garow-Narzahn project calla for the
construction of a second track and an improvement of the
existing track on the eastern section of the Berlin Outer
Freight Rine? Work on the prolect was to have been started
earlier?
JOWL 0 A portion. of the Wthlheide
narshelling yard has been completed and put into operation,
gavril_Tto, The poor condition of
railroads necessitates an extensive replacement of
rail s? In the current Five-Year Plan, 20300 km of rails Were
scheduled to be replaced, By the fall of 19530 however only
112 km were laid. This represents a 4.9 % fulfilaeat of plans?
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22mmala The term "Geisoltalbahn" railroad line refers to the
146rseburg-Querfurt railroad line. The eastern section of this line
was rerouted in /952. ' 0
aammta This information which is received for the first ,
time refers to a section of the double-track Berlin-Jueterbog-Ealle
railroad line ? The large railroad power station at EUdenstein is
being reconstructed in connection with the re-electrification of
railroad lined in central Germany?
Eprotatz Tho second trac7t of these elevated train lines was
dismantled by the Soviets at the end of the marc
ent Another source reported that this construction
projec was eliminated from the /955 railroad construction program',
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latmada Information on the slow progress of the reconstruction
n? fhila innnrtnnt ratilvnoti vinaslot WAAtn3wittod previously.
20201?, This bridge construction project was included in the
1954 construction program?
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