RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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INFORMATION REPORT
REPORT
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Rail Freight Traffic through, East C+erm n
Border Stations
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L. On . tuber 1, a train of 50 flat ars with trucks I n rou'[;e from
Bins t1, Frankfurt Oder was observed at the Stralsund ra? iroal cs ,-4-ttoon.
boxcar
express train coac.i
1a.tcar
regrigerator car
tank car
21-
50 F
trucks
T.,aedeburg
Cuban ,
10 F
4 trucks with
hois i.nw rears
machinery
and
Leipzig
Brett Litoviik 2
23
?11 'i
gasoline
Grosakorbethe
Go'o'n
3.8 D
fertilizers
8 F
machinery parts
Cherini. tz
B' a st Litovsk
12 F
boxes
':aedc~burg
'1
24
30 F
trucks
Frankfurt/Oaex
L:aeduburg I
20 B
undetermined
34 F
a B
23 trucks
undetermined
Leipzig
Brest L i tov -.k
10 1
now
flails.
7 F
S F
wheel sett
machinery parts
is a 1p:a ig
6 T,
ehip boilers and
boxes
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October
25
16 T
gasoline
8 F
iron parts
6 F
boxes
6 F
trucks with
hoisting gears
boxes
26
21 R
new
7 F
wheel sets
8 F
boxes
3. On 24 October, e, train of 45 boxcars with uranium ore en route from Aue
to Brest Litovsk was observed at Doberiug. 5
Hathenow to Brest ova on ::22 and 26 0pteber
one train each was dispatched from
5. The following shipments were observed at the Muelirose railroad station:
Date Number and
Type of Cars
October
27 50 F
November
50 trucks
4 50 F 100 trucks
50 B uranium ore
5 50 F 80 trucks
50 F
72 trucks
shipment
Date in Number and
October Type of Cars
30
31
Finsterwalde
Wittenberg
Brest Litovsk
toward Frankfurt/
Oder 1
Naumburg 1
Brest Litovsk 5
toward Cottbus )
)
toward Cottbus
a train was
dispatched from l3ernau to Brest Litovsk
on 1 November. I
8. The following motor vehicle shipments were observed at Frankfurt/Oder
between 25 October and 6 November:
2 October. at 1900, 35 trucks from Brest Litovsk were unloaded )
26 October. At 1425, 46 trucks to Brest Litovsk ) 1 and 6
28 October. At 1900, 60 trucks to Brest Litovsk )
Jueterbog
Grosskox~betha
Magdeburg
Chemnits
Leipzig
direction of Cottbus
Brest Litovsk
direction of Cottbus
direction of
Frankfurt/Oder
direction of
Frankfurt/Oder
Frankfurt/Oder
Daligow
Guben 3
Brest Litovsk
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I November. At 0330, 80 trucks from Brest Litovsk )
At 0400, 60 twa_~ucks to Brest Litovsk )
2 November. At 023.0, 80 trucks from Brest Litovsk
At 0230, 55 trucks to Brest Litovsk )
3 November. Ten repair-shop trucks from Brest Litovsk to Strausberg
4 November. At 0540 and 1300, 84 and 90 trucks respectively. )
from Prest Litovsk
At 2100 and 2140, 80 and 25 trucks reeectively
from - Frankfurt/Oder to Cottbus
b November. At 0735, 25 trucks to Brest Litovsk 1 and. 6
At 1025, 1200, 1300 and 1345, respectively,
60, 100, 90 and 85 trucks from Brest Litovsk. )
Comment. These shipments were connected with the rotor vehicle
exchange program which has been under wag since late July 1954. The
shipment on 22 October paragraph 4
of the pr sent re:or was repor e loreviousls
have had 3 flatcars.
IThe volume
o true shipments in both directions has continuously increased since
October. It is not clear whether all motor vehicle shipments were
connected with the exchange program or were also made for egy.ipment
purposes, possibly of the KVP.
Comment. These shipments possibly involved truck chassis which
had been shipped to the GDR to be furnished with special superstructures
in the motor vehicle repair shop "Red Star" of the GSFG which is
located at Leipzig.
Comment. Deliveries of East German lydrogen4tion plants to the USSR.
Comment. Deliveries by East German railroad car f$Qtories to the
. The Soviet-gauge wheel sets carried along will be used on these
care in the USSR.
Comment. Deliveries from the uranium ore mining district in Saxony.
Comment. It is assumed that these trucks arrived on the flatcars,
which have been di;3patched empty to the USSR
since 25 October.
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