RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER BREST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006100020005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The railroad bridge over the Bug River between Terespol and Brest : is a
steel girder structure which carries one track. Four rails are laid on the same ties
in such a way that both standard and Soviet gauge trains may operate on the bridge,
East of Melassewice, a -Soviet a stan4W uge track run parall--l to each other.
A few hundred asters east of Bug River, t two tracks converge and at the same
distance west .ot~ the Driver, the tracksh deparate again*
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C ,,9p The present report confirms previous information rrl the laying of
a railroad track on the bridge over the Dug River between Terespol and Brest
The simple-track status of the structure indicates that this bridge represents a
bottleneck on the most importantYScOlet supply :pine"from Moscow to Frankfurt Oder
via %Usk, Brest I " `..'.: and :?.arsaw, =This line is d .tble-"track in' its entire length.
It is teelMnioally feasible to combine a soviet and a' standard gauge track by laying
four rails on ties which exceed th# aarmall, width,
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