MONTHLY TRANSPORTATION SUMMARY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 1960

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• Publication Date: May 23, 1960
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COUNTRY East Germany/USSR jfPoland/Czechoslovakia REPORT
SUBJECT Monthly Transportation Summary Report
f-AdorFe_bruary 1960
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PLACE &
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9enort far February 1960'
IiIalad*d'e
1. Soviet Bloc transportation:
DATE DISTR.
NO. PAGES
REFERENCES
monthly transportation situation
on the following topics is
a. USSR: freight shipment and freight turnover of all public
of transportation; railroads, new lines, electrification
and dieselization, rolling stock; highways.
b. East Germany: international relations; opening of the border
crossings at Luebeck; railroads, automatic coupling, operation
and traffic, border traffic,rolling stock, improvements,
organization; highway transport; air transport.
c. Poland: changes in the Ministry of Traffic; 1959 freight and
passenger transportation; railroads, highways; air line routes.
d. Czechoslovakia: railroads.-
2. Military Supply:
a.< USSR: Soviet artillery supply, (including table of organization),
flow chart of the supply procedure in the combat zone, and a
tabulation of the strength rknd tasks of the repair services.
b. (East Germany:) combat alarm quota of motor vehicle replacement
parts, army fuel depots, military border traffic in December
1959.
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Transportation and. turnover of freight on. all public mecns.of.-
transportation in 1959.
Over 1,200 track kilometers were completed in 1959.
Another 100 k:i.lometers of the West Carelian Magistrale have been put
into service..
The construction of the main track on the 200 kilometer Irtyshakoye.-
Karazuk section of the Central Siberian Magistrate was fini*led;
Over 25,000 track kilometers were electrified and dieselized in late 1959r,
The-share of electric and diesel locomotivee in freight turnover
.increased to 33.5 percent,
Other lines of the 1960 electrification program,
A total of 1,002 Magistrale diesel locomotives, 435 Magistrale electric
locomotives, 38p600 freight cars and 18,000 passenger cars were produced
by USSR plantain 1959,
Electric locomotive type Ch S 1 for passenger trains was imported from
Czeohoslovakiao
The first railcar train type AeR 7 for alternating current undergoes
testing.
The production of the new diesel locomotive type The 11 for passenger
trains has started.
New highways in the Gorki district and in the Ukraine.
i x 9M I, Ge n .
The East German "traffic representation" was opened in Stockholm.
Zonal border crossings for railroad and road traffic Were opened near
"Luebeck. New control points of the Amt fuer Zoll and Kontrolle'doe
Warenverkehra (Department for Customs and Control of Goods' Traffic)'
(AZKW) have'been established.
The Organization for the Cooperation of Railroads (OSShd) made efforts
to introduce an automatic coupling system within the countries of the
Union Internationale des Chemins de For (UIC). The system permits the
coupling with Soviet rolling stook.
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The operational situation of the Reichsba'zn was difficult through
unfavorable weather conditions? poor coal and numerous cases of
-Influenza. The operational performances decreased,
The volume of military shipments was norma..l0
]:he handling of rai r tart' sbimnents Involved the short-term establishing
of special timetables for troop .overeats for a better screening of
the shipments.
rajor Soviet troop-movements are possible at any-time without
ong-terra preparations within the transportation sector.
The supply of new heavy. tanks seems
border traffic,
to heresumed in military
In future, military shipments are possibly also to be carried out by
sea.
Coal stocks of the Deutsche Reichsbahn continued to decrease. There
fire only 10 days" requirements available (unconfirmed).
Pajor railroad stations ancl,freight dispatch offices are to be
merged in complex offices in order to remedy the poor personnel
situation.
Despite unsatisfactory test runs,, gauge changing wheel sets of the
Kramer/ITecke' ty.e. axe to be put into 'production for publicity
reasons.
special heasT-duty flatcars of type 3,53w which are to be employed. as
loading ramps are undergoing teats
The "Total Renovation of the Magistrales" is to be the most essential
task to be carried out during the Seven Years P1arl.
The Berlin Outer Ring is to be ,ex tended at the expense of the.invest
ra'.ent ? funds of other REDS
The Construction Department of the Deutsche Reichsbahn is. presumably
to be reorgan zodu
"Object W, ges'' are -request-.-d to be paid on a wider scale within
the t.i a1-ic sector,
The.new main dapertment k-Uauptraferet) "Transportation Service" of the
Main Administration Motor' Veh-.cie Traffic within the Ministry for
Traffic is to deal with pro'os~,.,rt~..s of airraid protection and is to
maintain contacts with' the armed forces. Nationalized enterprises of
the motor vehicle sector are to be reduced from 137 to 6$ during the
period of the Seven Years' P?an. Prior to 1965* civil air traffic is
to be, increased 500 percent as against' 195 6 The Deutsche Lufthansa
Last is to reach two goals for the fulfi,i ent of the "Economic Main
Task"
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III ?Poland.
'Traffi.c Minister Rys and Str el cki was re?plaoed by former tinder-
secretary Jozef Popielas',,
Freight and passenger transportation on all public means of
transportation in.- 1959.
Personnel:. changes within the railroad' adrinist. a.tionm
A new zeta l recd b ridge v e the ~Ti:str; + River near ?Piasaczno wa.p
put into service
1960 plans provide f'oi the electrification of, 3.40 ';rack kilometers.
Plans for he supply of roll:i:cg stock have 'been fulfilled a,n 1959
for the( first time in? years, The FKP (Polls i State Rs.iIroads),
we,: e . supplied witki. 25 electric locomotives, 10 'three unit electric
railcar : trainq, three.. diesel looomoti ves, 377 passenge cax and
In 1959, a total' of I'W OQ kilometers of new. roads were built an
2?6Q0 road kilometers were repaved with solid surface.
The State ~ Airline Comnpan y. LOT 'is to operate two near lines to
.t orelgn countries n,
Fcr the, time bei,2ip, the new transloading 'station at Velke
Kaptisan~r is to haivll e USSR grain only.
A new riilroad . %:i ne is to, be constructed in, the High- Tatras
I,, Us'sk
1m Total T ahsDorta
rai'rans? .age Wit. ?no fey a~t Pub] _qa
traffic
Traps aortation ' Turnover
(in pillion tons) '`in billion tons/km)
1 ,?50
(1.03,/109 percent)
1, 302
{1 6/1118 percent)
1,/f29
(105/110 percent)
21
(103/120 percent)
,Inland shipping
192
(104/108, percent)
.94
(103/110 percent
Oil.. pipe lines
111
(104V1.G8;percent)
.
96/122 percent)
Not(a . Figures 'orz the 1o f 4, within brackets r show the fulfi l?.
w :n of the Yeare Ian, and those. on the rip ht ' how
the -Increase ?s e s -::c,st 19 8,
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jaaa'l'rians oK. &tjM
a, New i.nes
i. In 1959, the. 4. nistiy for Construction and Transportation.
constructed over 1,200 ; track kilometers,
ii'. Another 100 kilbmeters. hare been put ? inter : sere ice of the
West Karelian Magistrate under construction .. (For routing
of the Magistrate see Annex 1 Of-- Deeember. 1959 Transportation .
Summary.) Work on this 1 -1.ne is being continued in the
direction of Yuzhkozero,
A diesel locomotive depot. is under, construction and_is
scheduled to - convert steam locomotives to diesel operation,
iii. The laying of the iuain, track on the 200, kilom titer: Irtishakoze~'-
Karazuk, section of the Central, S`iberien Magistrale:. under
construction was completed earlya -The 'section is to be
put into regular service in the fourth quartet 'of 19604,
hii 4 The 64 kilo met r .Gorki . - uavolzhye .(at the, Gorki Sea) section.
is the first suburban r ailroad of the USSR to be electrif ie4
with alternating carrent. The ,new alt.ernatirsg current
railcar of type 'Ae V is Ito be emp10yad Pbr passengei?. txa.ffic
iio In addition to the lines r ponied in the Monthly Sur nar3r..of
December 1959, t to Kursk -, Byelgorod,-section As also
included' in the 1960 electrification program, After the,
completion of this section.- the Moscow, -Kharkov .: Donets
Basin line will-be aorpletelr eleotrifiedo
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percent as again4 t ' 26, 5 . percent in 1958
late 1959, t .e total length of all e1eotrifie4 and, dies Uzed
lines amounted,to 25,000. kilometers, The ahare.of electric and'
diesel locomotives in freighxe turnover amounted to 33.5
' track kilometers less th.qn provided far by'the play n -
kilometers were converted to diesel operation, I. e, 2..4t
the 1959 plan _ figures by';121 kiloirieters, only, 3,000 ',tack
i, . While the . elertrification of 2,089 track , kilometers' exceeded
by E1e9tx'i -iction -~W D e liz?~t oc
on this 'section.
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valcia are wtple~ d: i;ri: asgengfl ` traffic on electrified lines
.
of `the_'Moscowrailroad districto The Ch >5 1.
of axle series
,:344 kW anct.. achieves;. a maximttrii speed of 12Q-:km/h.
The ,ei.$ arid, railcar train .AeRitaradergoes ? testing. Tt: is the
a? The 300 kilometer Csorkx . - Sh 3zunya ?ii.gh~raj~ constx`ucted after the
Rolli.nStork
h,6 follsMng. rolling stock v 4s produced ,'by ~S.SR plants in
1959: ('i,gu.ree in brackets 3-nthoate ,the l958 output) A
1,,,002 Magistx`a1e diesel loco ot4ves 712)
*435 electr L c'? locomotives, C: 34i
38,600 Freight
cads l?40-,300)
1)800. Passenger cars 0j.
The railroads;,. hc~weverb received.'more roiling; stock `thhn
produced . tr,~ _ ttie .domestic _ industry ci. nee'' ';nor, is of rdl11z g
i m ee??~ii l06pt9tives . of _ type> Ch z L 'imported from Czedloslo-
rst units .are.tobe_put. in' service on the suburban line--%
The ' r'Malyshev" plant for the construction of transport. engines
engine .:.is 3,000 H1',; its maximum : speed. ,is 140',k
mfh;.
desigaiedi at the plant. The cepacity: of the ]A-cylinder ;dleael .
TAe U . for ,passexiger tra3.i1 ..'