SUMMARY REPORT ON TRANSPORTATION IN EAST GERMANY/USSR/POLAND/CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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Transportation Summary for January 1964
I. International Transport Relations
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COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Aid) common freight
car pool; beginning of operations postponed to mid-1964.
II. USSR
Further.equipment of various railroad stretches with
automatic block and interlocking installations. ,
Testing of new types of switches for train speeds of up
to 180 kilometers per hour (until now up to 160 km/h).
In 19639 approximately 1,250 track kilometers constructed.
Further electrification and dieselization of various
railroad stretches.
First BALTIKA diesel railcar train produced in USSR.
In 19639 9,000 road kilometers constructed with solid
surface in RSFSR. another 8,000 road kilometers planned to
be'constructed in 1964/65.
Classification of roads; summary table on capacity and
characteristics of future roads.
Ten diesel engine freighters and several crude oil tankers
to be put into service prinr to opening of Volga - Baltic
Sea Canal, in spring of 1964.
Total railroad ferry installation for Caspian Sea connect-
ion between Baku and Krasnovodsk, and second ferry boat
SOVETSKIJ TURKMENISTAN put into regular service (first
ferry boat SOVIETSKIJ AZERBAIJAN).
III. Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany and Berlin Transport
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Planned reduction of personnel strength within Railroad
Division Berlin.
Raise of wages of West Berlin railroaders possibly
connected with continuous decrease Of Reichsbahn personnel
in West Berlin.
Changes in management of locomotive personnel and .,
locomotives employed in .interzonal traffic.
Retraining of steam locomotive engineers to diesel
locomotive engineers.
Temporary discontinuation of S-Bahn operations in West
Berlin because of construction of Subway Line H.
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Replacement of Dipl.Ing.K.Leiser, Deputy Transport Minister
(responsible for construction and maintenance of transport
installations), by Dpil.Ing.K.Sobotta/ member of SED Central
Committee.
Heinz 7enzel General Director of new "Reisebilro der DDR"
(Soviet Zone travel agency).
Due to favorable weather conditions I no further deterioration
of continuously strained operational situation. Increased
stress on Reichsbahn car and coal situation because of
partly disrupted waterway traffic.
Increase in military requirements because of growing training,
and exercise activities.
In December 1963, personnel exchange movement still main
feature of military border corssing traffic.
In commercial border crossing traffic, fuel and grain
imports to Central Germany via Rostock and Wismar ports.
In 1963, volume of Reichsbahn freight transportation 261.1
million tons (259.8 million tons in 1962); planned volume
in 1964: 276.5 million tons.
Further decrease in number of Reichsbahn passengers; 830
million passengers in 1961; 691 millions in 1962; and 680
million passengers planned to be conveyed in 1964.
Passow - Schwedt/Oder Cracking Plant spur track opened to
regular traffic since 1 January 1964.
Beginning of renovation of various railroad lines;
employment of construction trains.
1964 Plan envisaging renovation of 450 track kilometers
(approximately 400 track kilometers renovated in 1963).,
In 1963, at VEB Lokbau Potsdam,Babelsbergl 272 diesel
locomotives produced (270 in 1962), including 15 V-180s
for Reichsbahn; 1964 plan providing for construction of
35 V-180s.
Remaining 1963 production of diesel locomotives comprising
100, 1501 and 180 PS switch locomotives, 600 PS V-60s, and
probably one production model of type V-100 and V-180
each (2 x 3-axle).
All diesel locomotives produced in 1963 delivered to
Reichsbahn.
In 1964, production of zero series of 50 kc/25 kV a.c.
locomotives at VEB Lokbau-Elektrotechnische Werke,Hennigsdorf.
Possible also production of zero series of two types of
electric locomotives developed for USSR (120-ton a.c. loco-
motive for 50 kc and 100-ton d.c.lovomotive).
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Plan for rebuilding and modernization of freight cars up to
1970.
In 1963, 661 railroad tank'cars delivered by. Czechoslovakia.
New railroad passenger car construction plant planned for
VEE Waggonbau Bautzen by 1968.
Construction and rebuilding program for passenger cars in 1964.
Dissolution of six equally ranking VE Projektierungebetriebe
des Strassenwesens (nationalized planning enterprises within
road sector); establishment of VE Projektierungsbetrieb des
Strassenwesens'in. East Berlin, with five branch offices.
Directives of pconomie planning.program (1964-1970) for
increase and for better quality of automobile tires.
Establishment ofIleitkontor Reifenhandel" (main office for
tire trading), Potsdam=Babelsberg, responsible for total
.tire supply.
Increase of public bus line system by Nauen - Velten and
Gera - Berlin lines.
1963 motor vehicle freight transport volume increased by
4.3 per cent compared with 1962.
In 1962/63 intense highway bridge building to meet Seven Year
Plan (on Highways F-2, F-4, F-5, F-6, Fs 6/819 F-949 F-106,
F-169, F-175, F-187, F-1193).
Road construction, partly in connection with military install-
ations, completed in areas: (a) Potsdam/Krampnitz - Dallgow/
DOberitz, (b) Syrau/SchneckengrUn garrison training ground,
(c) East German Army Objects Uhlenkrug '2orgelow.
In summer 1964, putting into operation of rebuilt tourist
boat SPREE on Soviet Zone inland waterways.
Winter schedule of White Fleet, Dresden.
Inland waterways frozen up from mid-January 1964.
Magdeburg=Rothensee shiplift closed from 25 January to
11 February 1964 because of repairs.
IV. Czechoslovakia
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1963/64 plan figures and performances of Czech State
Railroads (CSD).
Volume of transshipment in Cierna n.T., on 1 January 1964.
Planning of broad-gauge route to East Slovak'Iron Works (VSZ).
Completion of automatic safety installation on Prosenice
Hranice noMor. railroad stretch.
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Operating accidents on CSD railroad system;.
Status. of electrification of Kolin Jihlava and Horazdovice
Strakovice lines, .
Further a.c.. test locomotives, delivered to operating
department (PO) at Plzen training of electric locomotive
engineers.
New prototype of freight car of series ZAC completed at
Tatra Car Factory in Ceska Lipa.
Decrease in locomotive coal stocks at Central and South-
West Railroads..
Volume of '7aidhaus (West Germany) - Rozvadov (Czechoslovakia)
border crossing traffic ? in 1963.
Construction of reinforced concrete tugboat for Elbe-Oder
Shipping Company (CSPLO).
Enlargement of Elbe River Harbor Vanov at Aussig.
Planning of natural gas pipeline from Dashava (South of Lvov)
Ukrainian SSR, to Sala in Czechoslovakia..
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In 1963,: volume of freight transportation 300 million tons;
number of passengers 865 millions.
According to 1964 transport plan, volume of freight shipments
310 million tons; number of passengers 885' millions..
Kamienna Nowa - Sokolka line in operation since 15 December
1963,
Electric traffic on Kattowitz (Katowice) - Tychau (Tychy).
Bielitz (Bielsko Biala) line since 1 December 1963,
In 1964/65, 632 track kilometers to be electrified.
From 1964 to 1968, electrification of Strzemieszyce -
Lublin line.
First galage changing installation for passenger cars in
operation at Przemysl railroad station. ? Completion of
another four installations by summer 1964 timetable.
Moscow - Bucarest through passenger traffic planned.
A total of 152 locomotives and 10 electric railcar trains
damaged through operating accidents in third quarter of
1963.
In 1963, increase of damaged electric locomotives from 22.9
to 25 per cent, and of electric railcar units from 19 to
23.3 per cent.
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1964 Plan for rolling stock to be delivered to Polish State
Railroads (PKP).
In 1964, delivery of 350 new passenger train cars to USSR.
Polish pool of motor 'vehicles.
Planned outp'ut of Polish motor vehicle industry in 1964.
In'1963, road construction program 94 per cent fulfilled
survey on roads completed and/or still under construction.
1964 Plan for construction, improvement and/or repair of.
roads.
After completion of improvement works, Breslau,Schongarten
airport re-opened to traffic.
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I.
International Transport Relations
COMECON Common Freight Car Pool
The 'beginning of operations of the COMECON common freight
car pool, announced for 1 January 1964, has been postponed
to mid-1964. This is apparently due to the reluctant ,
attitude of Rumania and Bulgaria during the decisive con-
ferences of the Standing Transport Commission of COMECON
(Budapest 6 - 11 Decembers1963) and of the Executive Committee
of COMECON (Bucharest 17 - 21 December 1963). In October
1963, Popielas, the then Polish Transport Minister, also
objected to some stipulations of the planned contract on the
common freight car pool. For this reason, he was replaced
in his office by Lewinski in November 1963.
Meeting the new deadline will depend on time consuming tech-
nical and organizational tasks as the selection and designation
of cars and the installation and filling of posts of the
central dispatcher office in Prague. This and the diverging
interests of the pool partners makes meeting of the dead-
line unlikely.
The following. details have been learned about the common
freight car pool:
- Interstate agreement and articles of the common freight
car pool were signed by the representatives of Bulgaria,
Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Zone
of Germany, and the USSR. They are valid from 1 January
1964.
- For the time being, the articles only stipulate the
agreement on the formation of the common freight car
pool and some general directives for the functioning of
the pool. The future management of the pool is to deal
with the still unsolved and disputed problems.
Approximately 70 per cent of all goods exported and im-
ported between COMECON countries are shipped by rail.
It is therefore hoped that the common freight car pool,
aiming at restricting dead head runs to a minimum, will
bring about considerable economic advantages. ,Jith the
present procedure of returning cars of foreign railraod
administrations empty, about 30 per cent of freight car
dead headings have been necessary.
(Example of the Polish State Railroads (PKP) of December
1963: Of an average 8,500 freight cars crossing the Polish
borders daily, 2,400 were empty. In late 1963, Polish
cars used to remain from 10 - 20.days in the respective
foreign country).
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The East ?Bloc designation of the common freight car pool
is Obshchij.Park Wagonov with the official contraction
OPW. The three letters will be painted on the freight
car beside the designation of the home depot of the car.
- Only cars in perfect condition are to be allotted to the
OPW, guaranteeing trouble-free running between routine
inspections.
- The common freight car pool aims at accumulating a stock
of modern four-axle boxcars and gondola cars (for example
for coal, ore and food transports), and of special cars
(refrigerator, tank and flat cars).
- Minor repair and maintenance are to be carried out by
the railroad division in whose territory the car is
employed at the specific time.
- Of the initial issue of about 100,000 cars to the freight
car pool, the USSR will allot 3,500 and Poland 36,000.
Pending the introduction of the gauge-changing wheel
sets on the East Bloc railroads, the Soviet broad-gauge
(1524 millimeters), the Soviet freight car limitations,
and the smaller clearance limitation of the neighboring
European standard-gauge (1435 millimeters) networks will
set the limits to a full Soviet participation in the ex-
change of freight cars across the Soviet border. The 3,500
standard-gauge cars, presumably cars captured in World
War II, will only play a minor role in Soviet border cross-
ing traffic. Their allotment is more or less a Soviet
gesture to justify Soviet membership, leadership and
controlling status in the OP'rl.
- The daily stock of OPW cars of a member country is to
correspond to the number of cars allotted by this country
to the pool. In case there are less cars available, the
country retaining the cars is to pay a comparatively
large sum in rubles rising according to the time of
retention.
- Chief organ of the pool is the Council of the Common
Freight Car Pool, consisting of representatives of the
railroad divisions of the. member countries.
- Executive organ is the eentral Dispatcher Office of the
Common Freight Car Pool in Prague. In cooperation with
the main dispatcher offices of the transport ministries
of .the member countries, this office is to control the
daily allocation of freight cars'and to supervise the
functioning of the total organization.
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II. USSR
1. Railroad Transportation
a. Automatic Train Sto s and Telecommunications
(1) Automatic blocking and interlocking installations
(2)
have been
following
introduced among others, on the
railroad stretches:
Shkhuya - Kotelnitch
Fastov - Mironovka
Darnica - Grebenka
Penza - Pachelma
Celinograd - Bkibastus
on Moscow - Perm line
on Lvov - Dnepropetrovsk
line
on Kiev - Poltava line
on Penza - Ryazhk line
on Celinograd - Barnaul
line.
'Switches used so far on the Soviet railroads
(SZD), permitted speeds of up to 160 km/h
only. In cooperation with the design buraau
of the Main Administration Railroad Tracks
and Installations of the Transport Ministry
and with the Novosibirsk plant, the Institute
for Engineers of Railroad Troops in Leningrad
is developing a new type of switches permitting
higher train speeds. The first three test models
for speeds up to 180 km/h are presently being
tested on the -Moscow - Leningrad line.
b. Railroad Network ?
In 1963, the railroad network of the Soviet State
Railroads increased byapproximately 1,250 kilometers.
It totals approximately127,300 kilometers at
present. About half of the completed lines were
put into regular, service, including the' following
stretches:
Sukkozero'- Yushkozero (90 km) - West Karelian rail-
roads
Profintern- Buruktal (106 km) - 2xtension of the
line branching off
from Orsk in easter-
ly'direction
- Central Siberian
Magistrale
- Central Siberian
Magistrale
Peski Celinnye - Volodarskoe
(100 km)
Karasuk Kamen Ob River
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Ushinski - Kazimov (70 km) - northern branch line
of Moscow - Kuilayshev
line
Kizitlerinka - Batajsk - eastern bypass around
Rostov
Provisional traffic has been opened, among others,
on stretches of the following new lines:
Ivdel - Ob
= 30 km (total in operation about
190 km), on line leading from
SVerdlovsk area to the north.
Artyshta - Podobas = bypassing Novkuzneck, on
South Siberian Magistrale
AbakanTaishet = 200 km (the total in operation is
380 km, on South Siberian
Magistrale,
Achinsk-Abalokovo = 103 km, on northern branch
of Transsiberian Magistrale.
b.-lectrification/DieSelization
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Electrification
By late 1963, electric
traffic was opened
amons'others on the following stretches:.
Kaluga --Sukhinichi
Likhaya Rososh
-Kungur Shalya
Novokuzneck
Meshdurechensk
Nadeshdinskaya -
Usurisk.
(See Transportation
November 1963).
- on Moscow - Kiev line
- on Rostov - Liski line
on Perm -Sverdlovsk line
- on South Siberian
Magistrale
?- on Vladivostok -
Khabarovsk line
Summaries for April and
Railroad stretches to be electrified in 1964
include:
Fastov - Zdolbunov
Kirov - Balezino
Ryazan - Ryashk
Ponza Syzran
Michurinsk - Rososh
Cclinograd -Karaganda-
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on Dnepropetrovsk -
Lvov line
on Kirov - Perm line
on Moscow - Voronesh line
on Penza - Kuibyshev line
on Michurinsk - Rostov line
on Celinograd - Tashkent'
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(2) Dieselization
The following railroad stretches, among others,
were opened to diesel traffic:
Smerinka - Odessa - on Lvov - Odessa line
Grebenka - T.Shev-
chenko -Pomoshnaya - on Konotop - Odessa line
Zaporoshe - Sevasto-
pol - on Kharkov - Sevastopol
line.
d. Rolling Stock
After 6,000 kilometers of test runs, the first
Soviet made diesel railcar train 'Baltika" was
transferred for further tosting to the Moscow test
track on 10 December 1963. The train was built
in the Riga construction plant. It consists of
four cars, including two raiMotor-cars, each with
1,0001PS power, has 4.16 seats and attains a
maximum speed of 120 km/h. Another diesel railcar
trains is nearing completion at the same plant.
Diesel railcar trains so far in use in the USSR
were imported from Hungary and were produced by
the Ganz firm. Consisting of two rail motor cars
and a central trailer, each train can accomodate
284 passengers. In contrast to the Baltika train,
which has hydraulic transmission, they have mechani-
cal power transmission. Each of the two railcars
has power of 500 PS. They attain a maximum speed?
of. 120 km/h.
2. Road Transportation
a. In 1963, the RSFSR road net with solid surface
was increased by 9,000 kilometers. Another 8,000
solid surface raad kilometers are to be constructed
in 1964/65.
b. The USSR road net is classified into five cate-
gories (I-V), the first two (I,II) comprising the
superior net" comparable to West German autobahnen
and federal highways) and the remaining three :
(III-V) the Union Republic roads.
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The following table supplies data on the capacity and final
characteristics when completed of planned roads, in the five
categories.
Capacity and Final
CharacteristicsI II III
Categories
Average daily traffic
density in both di- .
rections,number of
motor vehicles
Speed in km/h
a. In general
b. On difficult
stretches in nor-
mal terrain
c. On difficult
stretches in
hilly terrain
over 6,000
6,000 -3,000
150 120
120 100
80 60
Number of lanes
4 and
more
2
Width of lanes, in
meters
3.75
3.75
Width of roadway,in
meters
2
x 7.5
7.5
Width of shoulders;in
meters
3.75
3.75
Width of raadbed, in
meters
Type of road
surface
IV
3,000
1,000
less than
-1,000
- 200
200
loo
80
60
80
60
4o
50
4o
30
2
3.5
7.0
2.5
2 1
5.0 4.5
6.0
2.0 1.75
4.5
27.5 and 15.0 12.0 10.0 8.0
more
Concrete;
asphalt-
concrete;
asphalt
V
Light
bitumen
II
Concrete;
asphalt-
concrete;
asphalt
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III
Asphalt;
bitumen
IV
Asphalt
bitumen
light
bitumen
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3. Inland Shipping
a. Ten diesel engine freighters are under construction
at the Gorki shipyard for river vessels. They are to
be completed prior to the opening of the .Volga-Baltic
Sea Canal in the spring of 1964 and are to be employed
on this waterway. The freighters have a displaceTent
of 2,700 tons and attain a. speed of 12.5 km/h. In
addition, several crude oil tankers, also to be em-
ployed on the new waterway, are under construction
at the Volgograd shipyard. With a capacity of 5,000,
tons, the VELIKIJ, the first of this type tanker
has already been put into service.(See Transportation
Summary for November 1963). ?
b. The complete railroad ferry installation of the
? ports of Baku and Krasnovodsk on the Caspian Sea was
? opened to regular traffic on 29 December 1963.
Plans provide for a total of five railroad ferry:
boats to be employed on this connection, each with
a transport capacity of 300 passengers and 30 750.
Inn-freight cars. Loading of a train on the boat
takes one hour and the trip across the Caspian Sea
12 hours. The railroad ferry saves time consuming
transloading of goods from train to boat and vfce
versa and Slow transportation on the long rail routes.
In addition, the ferry connection facilitates.t'ransit
freight traffic between the USSR and Iran and
Afghanistan. (See Transportation Summary for August
1962).
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III. Soviet Zone of Occupation of Germany and Berlin Tranuort
Situation.
1. Berlin Transport Situation and Interzonal Tranuort
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a) In 1964, a Reichsbahn subdivision of Railroad Division
Berlin, not controlling any West Berlin railroad lines,
is to reduce its workforce by 300. Through this
measure, personnel is probably to be made available for
Reichsbahn operated lines in West Berlin.
b) Wages of West Berlin Reichsbahn personnel were raised
effective 1 January 1964. The new rates also take
into account the seniority of the workers.
To a considerable degree, the decline in the number
of Reichsbahn employees residing in West Berlin, which
continued in 1963, was also due to poor pay. The fact
that since late 1963 Berlin Ostbahnhof Maintenance
Shop has completely or partly handed dyer the allotment
of interzonal train locomotives, running between
Berlin and Bebra, to Railroad Division Erfurt, may
also account for the decreasing number of Reichsbahn
personnel in West Berlin.. Locomotive personnel
residing in West Berlin had to take over service on
this interzonal route from Berlin Ostbahnhof, since
August 1961.1)
However, the lack of such locomotive personnel may
also be due temporarily to the present courses held at
Berlin where steam locomotive engineers who were
employed in interzonal traffic between Berlin and
West Germany are being trained as diesel locomotive
V-180 engineers. ? Passenger trains running in inter-
zonal traffic will presumably be hauled by V-180s
with the beginning of the 1964 summer timetable. 2)
c) West Berlin
During several nights in the last third of January
1964, traffic of the North-South S-Bahn line was
disrupted between Anhalter and Yorkstrasse railroad
stations. Transport was maintained by buses of the
West Berlin Transport Company (BVG). The disruptions
1) See also Tpt Summary for December 1963 (III,l.e), (2).
The exchange of locomotives at Grosskorbetha, mentioned
in the December 1963 summary, probably affected D5/D6
trains only (Paris - Berlin - Paris) because trains
Dl/D2 (Frankfurt - Berlin - Frankfurt) were routed via
Erfurt - Sangerhausen - GUsten at that time.
2) With regard to developments in the stock of Reichsbahn
diesel locomotives, see Paragraph III,3,c), Rolling
Stock, of this report.
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were necessitated by the construction of Subway Line H
Which was started in early January. The line is to
lead underneath Yorkstrasse S-Bahnhof. (See Tpt Summary
for October 1963, Annex 2).
2. Personnel.
a) On 1 November 1963, Dipl. Ing. (graduate engineer)
Kurt Sobotta was appointed Deputy Transport Minister,
responsible for the construction and maintenance of
traffic installations. The now 35 year old Sobotta
was a railroad worker and operating employee from
1942 - 1954. Subsequently he followed studies at the
Dresden Transportation College until 1959. After one
year of employment at the roadway department of
Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) main station he became
responsible for the Transport and Communications Depart-
ment within the railroad construction department of the
SED Central Committee. Previous Deputy Transport
Minister Dipl.Ing. Kurt Leiser is to be employed in the
Soviet. Zone road sector.
b) Heinz Wenzel was appointed director general of the
"ReisebUro der DDR" (travel agency of the DDR) which
legally succeeded the Soviet Zone "Deutsche Reisebaro
(DER)" (German travel agency) on 1 January 1964.
Wenzel used to be chief manager of the Dia of the
Soviet Zone.
3. Railroad Tranuprtation
_ _
a) qp_erations and.Traffic
-(1) Favorable winter weather, i.e. little precipitation,
saved the Reichsbahn from a further deterioration
of the operational situation which had already
been strained at the beginning of 1964. However,
freezing of waterways caused additional stress to
the railroads and its car situation. Accordingly,
Reichsbahn coal stocks, stored prior to the
beginning of the winter, decreased considerably.
(2) Similarly to the same period of 1963, Soviet and
German Armies demands on the Reichsbahn increased
with the growing activities at the anti-aircraft,
water, and troop training grounds.
In mid-January, Soviet Army and East German Army
transports, including tank shipments, moved from
the Thuringia and other Central German areas to
Letzlinger Heide; return transports were observed
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at the end of January. ,From 17 January, loading of
boxcars was forbidden in Railroad Division Berlin.
As in the preceding months, in December 19639 military
border crossing traffic focussed on the exchange of
personnel.
In December 19639 commercial border crossing traffic
included fuel and grain imports from Rostock and
Wismar ports to Central Germany.
(4) Transport Performances and Plans
(a) In 1963, the Reichsbahn transportation volume,
amounted to 261.1 million tons, i.e., 0.5 per cent
more than in 1962 (259.8 million tons). 1964 plans
provide for the volume of freight transportation
to increase to 276.5 million tons including 244.4
million tons of domestic goods and the rest of
transit freight.
(b) The number of passengers to be conveyed by the
Reichsbahn in 1964 is 680 millions (830 millions
in 1961; 691 millions in 1962). The decrease is
only partly due to the higher number of passengers
using motor vehicles. The number of privately-
owned cars is still small, and the exclusively
nationalized bus lines predominantly support
railroad lines. The transfer of passenger trans-
portation from unprofitable secondary railroad
lines to VEB Kraftverkehr (nationalized motor
vehicle transport) is making only small progress,
East German passenger traffic has decreased since
1960 due to strict control of vacationists traffic,
restriction of interzonal transport and lessening
of foreign tourists traffic.
b) Railroad Improvement, Renovation and Clog of Lines.
?
(1) On 1 January 1964, regular traffic was opened on the
spur track between Passew and Schwedt/Odar cracking
plant? (See Tpt Summary for December 1963). At an
exchange point five kilometers from Passow railroad
station '(on Line 122-d), the Reichsbahn hands over
the trains to the industrial railroads and/or takes
over the trains with the product of the plant.. Tha
cracking plant owns 12 loaomotives for employment on
the spur track.
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(2) At the beginning of 19649 work started on the
following major renovation projects
(3)
Line No,
162 '
159-c
163
168
204
Stretch
Cottbus 7 Berlin
LUbbenau Senftenberg
(lignite line)
Elsterwerda. Frauenhain
Werdau - Dresden
(electrification under way)
Halberstadt - Halle
(lime tapping line)
Tracks 19 through 24 of
Leipzig main station
The 1964 plan provides for the renovation of 450
kilometers in constrast to the National Economic
Plan which envisaged the renovation of 480 track
kilometers. (See Tpt Summary for October 1963). ,
In 1963, about 400 track kilometers were renovated.
The total Reichsbahn system amounts to approximate-
ly 16,660 track kilometers.
On 1 November 1963, railroad operation was discon-
tinued on the Aschersleben=Hecklinger Strasse -
Hakelforst (exclusively) stretch of secondary line
No. 205-k.. . The line is being dismantled from
Aschersleben North to Hakelforst (exclusively).
Since 1 November 1963, the remaining Hakelforst -
SChneidiingen stretch has been open for freight
traffic only. -Passenger traffic of Line 205-k has
been taken over by VEB Kraftverkehr. (See Tpt
Summary for November 1963).-
Construction
Train NO
102
801
501
1201, 301,
303
VEB Industrie-
bahnbau
Bitterfeld
601
c) Rollin Stock
(1) (a) In 1963, VEB Lokbau "Karl Marx", Potsdam-
Babelsberg prOduced 272 diesel locomotives
(270 in 1962), including 15 main line V-180s for
the Reichs.bahn.- Contrary to expectations, the
1963 production program., announced in January 1963
when Locomotive No. ?V-180 005 was put into service
(VIth Party Congress), has been fulfilled. . It is
therefore possible that the planned 1964 production
of 35 ghis type le&omotives will ?be fulfilled unless
the pregram is affected by the Soviet difficulties
in supplying railroad material to the Soviet Zone
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at the end of 1963. Together with this prototype's
locomotives V-180 003 and V-180 004 which were
still employed on the Berlin Outer Ring in 1963, the
stock of this construction series is estimated at
17 units.
(b) The reMaining 257 diesel locomotives of the 1963
construction program are switch loComotives of
1009 150 and 180 PS, V-60 locomotives of 600 PS
also suitable for short transfer runs. The 257
diesel locomotives probably also comprise the two
models of the newly developed V-100 locomotive .
(for light main line service) and of the 2 x 3-axle
V-180 locomotive (for lines with reduced permissible
axle pressure) which are to be exhibited on the
Leipzig spring Fair.
(c) Unlike the Soviet Zone production of electric
industrial locomotives, four-axle passenger train
cars, refrigerator cars, etc., which are mainly
being exported, all diesel locomotives are presumab-
ly delivered to the Reichsbahn.
(2) (a) At VEB Lokbau=Elektrotechnische Werke "Hans Beimler",
Hennigsdorf, the zero series production of a 50 kc/
25 kV a.c. locomotive is to begin in 1964. Since
1961, two this type locomotives have been running
as "DDR (LEW) test locomotives" on the Hennigsdorf
Wustermark stretch. They are eventually to be
employed on the so-called Drei Annen Hohne,, and/or
Tanne, - Blankenburg (Harz) lime tapping Line 205-a.'
This six-axle locomotive attains a maximum speed
of 100 km/h and has the following specifications:
Train At Gradient
Weipht
3,000 tons 0 0/00
1,200 It 12 0/00
750 30 -c)/oo
Attainable
60 km/h
50 hm/h.
40 km/h
(b) Furthermore it is planned-to put two electric
locomotives, developed for the USSR, into zero
series production (a 200-ton a.c. 1O.coMotive for
kf and a 10-ton d.c,.slocomotiVe for heavy gradients
in open pit lignite mining). , However, it is
possible that these locomotives belong to the
electric locomotives, which according to recent
information, ao not correspond to Soviet and Polish
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By 1970, the Reichsbahn intends to rebuild 20,000
and to modernize 32,000 "Doppelachsen" (double-axle)
freight cars.
The rebuilding project involves the merging of small
numbers of freight car classes resembling each other
(having the same kind of sheet metal bodies for
instance) in major classes.
The modernization project involves, among other
things, the furnishing of freight cars with Knorr-
Einheits Bremsen (K7) (Knorr air brakes), roller
bearings, and 100-ton draw-gears, the installation
of the latter being connected with the development of
the central buffer coupling.
A joint UIC 1) and OSShD 2) "Special Committee for
Automatic Coupling" is at present determining a
uniform central buffer coupling to be introduced in
Europe by about 1965.
tiDoppelachsen" (double-axles) are a statistical unit
through which the Soviet Zone pool of freight cars -
in fact consisting also of three- and multiple-axle
cars - is theoretically established as a pool of
two-axle cars only.
Since the rebuilding program predominantly affects
two-axle cars, the number of "Doppelachsen" to be
rebuild may also correspond to the number of cars
involved. Car classes to be modernized probably
include a major number with more than two axles, the
number of cars to be modernized will therefore be
smaller than the number of 'Doppelachsen" to be
modernized.
In 1963, the Soviet Zone chemical industry received
661 railroad tank cars, each of a capacity of 320 hl
(32,000 liters), from the Vagonka Tatra plant in
Studenka, Czechoslovakia.
A new plant for the construction of railroadpassenger
cars is to be built at VEB "aggonbau Bautzen, by 1968.
It is to increase the present annual production of
160 passenger cars to 315 cars.
1) TIC = Union Internationale des Chemins de Per (Inter-
national Railroad Association) politically neutral; -
includes railroads of Western and neutral countries and
of East Bloc countries except the USSR and Albania.
2) OSShD = Organisazija Ssotrudnichestva Zhelesnykh Dorog
(Organisation for the Cooperation of East Bloc Railroads)
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(6) 1n.1964, the Reichsbahn is to receive, among other
things, the following rolling stock for passenger
transport:
65 new express train cars
40 newLeic,ht-Verbrennungs-Triebwagen (LVT)
(light internal combustion railcars)...
Furthermore,
65 express train cars are to be modernized, and
284 passenger cars to be rebuilt for commuter
traffic.
3. Road Tran2portation
a) Orsanization (Structural Changes)
- On 1 January 1964, the six equally ranking nationalized
planning enterprises VE Projektierungsbetrieb fUr
Autobahnen Berlin, VE Projektierungsbetriebe des
Straseenwesens Babelsberg, Dresden, Erfurt, Halle and
Schwerin, were dissolved, and ?VE ProjektiOrungsbetrieb
des Strassenwesens (VEP Sw)fl was established in East
Berlin, with branch offices in Babelsberg, Dresden, Erfurt,
Halle and Schwerin.
b) Motor Transport (Production)
(1) The activiation of tire production is a main issue
of the 1964-1910 economic planning program. (See
Tnt Summary for September 1963). Targets of the
program include':
- Continuation, initiated. in.past years,,-of the
tire factories' specialization on_specific types
of tires.
- Improvement of quality to Obtain bettor running?
properties. It is furthermore intended that .
through the better quality about 40 per cent of
the used tires can be recapped as against 20 per
cent of the present tires.
(2) As of 1 January 1964, the new Iieitkontor Reifen-
handel ?(main office for tire trading) in Potsdam,
Babelsberg, is responsible for all Soviet Zone tire
supply and recapping. This office is to cooperate
closely with Runderneuerungskombinat (recapping
combine) Berlin=SchmOckwitz (where the most important
recapping enterprises are to be combined), the .
district departments of the Deutsche Handels-Zentrale
(DHZ) (German Trade Central) Gummi wad Asbest (rubber
and asbestos) and with the tire industry.
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(3) In early. December 1963, theplblic bus line system
was increased by the following lines?
(a) Nauen Botzow Velten.
fith this line, VEB Motor Transport took over
the conveyance of passengers of the Nauen
Velten railroad line No. 107-m. ?
(b) Gera ?-? Berlin.
Buses cover the 274 kilometer rapid transit
connection between Gera and Berlin,Friedrich-
strasse in 4 1/2 hours. Since December 1963,
they make one trip each way on Mondays and
Fridays, and can be boarded or left on inter-
mediate stops at Eisenberg (QB 0450) and
Bit terfeld.
(4)
The volume of freight shipped by motor transport
increased by 4.3 per cent to 319.3 million tons in
1963, as against 306.3 million tons shipped in 1962.
c) Road_Im.povement
(1) Obviously in order to meet the deadlines of the
Seven Year Plan (1958-165), bridge building was
intensified in 1962/63. (See Tpt Summary for June
1963). According to the plan, all bridges
destroyed during Vorld War II are to be restored
and all temporary bridges to be replaced by
permanent structures. A total of 1959 autobahn and
highway bridges is to be generally repaired and
177 new bridges are to be constructed. The
following highway bridge building is under way,
and/or has been completed
Highway .F-2
On 7 December 1961, after four years of building,
the "Lange BrUcke" (UU 6896), a 175 meter long
pre-stressed concrete bridge over the Havel River,
was opened to traffic'.
Southeast of this bridge and adjoining it, the
eastern part of a bridge spanning Reichsbahn
terrain at UU 6806 was inaugurated on 8 October
1963. The 54 meter long steel structure has a
width of about 20 meters including sidewalk, cycle'
? path, streetcar track and three-lane roadway?? ,
Building of the bridge carried out by the
semi-nationalized firm of Beuchel & Co,;. Kbnnern/
Saale.: The western half of the bridge is expected
to' be completed in 1964. ,
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Highway,F-4
In line with the straightening of a stretch from
about two kilometers southeast of Nordhausen
(PC 2507) to immediately north of Sundhausen
(PC 2503)5 building of concrete bridges is under
way at PC 257 042, PC 257 041, PC 257 038 across
the "Muhlgraben", and PC 257 037 across the Helme
River. The bridges were originally planned to be
completed by late 1963.
ElLI12..0 F-5
In the fall of 1963, building of a bridge was under
way near the "Burgergarten public garden) at
Grabow (PE 7106). The old bridge no longer meets
interzonal transport requirements. Plans provide
for the construction of a bypass around Grabow in
the spring of 1964. One bridge each over the Elde
River and over the canal will be built on this
bypass.
1.11,EhnE2.16
Building of the Hamburger Strasse roadbridge
(VS 083577) at Dresden, begun in October 1961,
was nearing completion in the fall of 1963. This
prestressed concrete bridge has a capacity of 60
tons and leads across the connecting track between
Dresden,Friedrichstadt freight station and the
Dresden Elbe River port.
Joint Stretch of Hiahways F-6 and F-81
Bridge building over the Goldbach (Creek) near
PC 333 432 between Blankenburg/Harz and Pfeiffenkrug
(PC 313 434) was completed in the fall of 1963. The
about 15 meter long"concrete bridge rests on two
piles and has a width of 10 meters including 2 x 1
meter sidewalks. (See Tpt Summary for July 1963,
Annex 4.
The grade level crossing of the stretch with the
Blankenburg? Drei Annen Hohne and/or Tanne rail-
road line (Line 205-a) is being replaced by an
overpass at PC 340 417. Simultaneously the stretch
is being rerouted so as to pass through PC 340 417..
LIE11.221 F-94
In connection with the electrification of the Werdau_,
- Reichenbach stretch Of Railroad Line No.173 and
with the simultaneous widening and heightening of
the line clearance limitation, the road bridge at
US 081 121 in Reichenbach, Saxonia, was replaced by
a new structure. Closing of the highway at
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Reichenbach since January 1963 has presumably been
connected With the building of the new bridge and
probably also with Toad work.
Hi.ghway F-106
The "Wisrgsche.BrUcke6, spanning the harbor track
at PE 592 471 in Schwerin, is being rebuilt and is
open for single-track .operation only.
11..X. F-10
The 13 kilometer Neudorf (US 6762) - west of
Dobeln ( US 6864) Ostrau (US 7173) stretch, under
construction since the fall of 1961, is scheduled
to be completed by 1966. ,(See Tpt Summary for
July 1961). In line with this project, five
bridges are to be and/or have been constructed at
the following sites in Dobeln
At US 664 665 and US 665 663 across the
Freiberger Mulde.
Us 665 661 across a street.
US 666 658 across Reichsbahn
terrain.
If US 666 656 across Highway F-175.
Two of these bridges were completecLin the late
fall of 1963.
Highway F-175
At Nossen (us 8058), bridge construction has been
under way for 'several years. The new bridge
replaces an old bridge spanning Reichsbahn terrain
at US 801 582. Closing of a Nossen street from
December 1962 to August 1963 was presumably
connected with the project. It is therefore
assumed that the bridge has been completed.
Highway F-187
Due to the building of a new structure of the
PappelbrUcke (bridge) (UT 350 492) at Piesteritz
(UT 3449) west of Lutherstadt=Wittenberg, and to
the simultaneous widening Of-the about 3.5 kilo-
meter long LutherstadtL.Wittenberg Piesteritz -
stretch,.the.highway was closed here between June
and late December 1963. In October 1963, the
bridge could only be used by buses.
hway F-193
In c-arffon with the straightening of this
highway a new bridge is under construction near
AdaMsdorf (UV-6821).. The six meter high bridge
is to span the Neustrelitz - Waren 'railroad line
(No.117) at about UV ?699 202. The straightened
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stretch of the highway will be routed from
UV 699 210 via the new bridge to UV 702 218.
(2) Partly in connection with military installations,
the following roadwork is under way and/or has been
completed
(a) Potsdam/Krampnitz -,DaqgowLDbberitz Area
aallyay F.7.2
In September'19631 the 0.5 kilometer Neufahr-
land (UU 6515) - Gross Glienicke (UU 7215)
stretch was closed until further notice because
of Gonstruction work,
Potsdam District Kreis Nauen
Widening of the Gross Glienicke Seeburg
(UU 7219) stretch, begun in 1963, was partly.
completed in the fall of 1963. In late 19622
and early 1963, the Seeburg - DaIlgow stretch
was widened to about nine metera. (See Tpt
Summary for November 1962).
(b) Soviet Army Garrison Trainin,g_Area at
,Syyau (TR 93-03) and-I-chneckenzriiii- (R 9999)
In Kreis Plauen of Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz)
district, Ober Neuendorf (TR 9893) -
,Sohneckengrtin L II 0 (secondary road) is
receiving a concrete surface about 10 meter
wide. The stretch from the road crossing at
TR 920 991 to SchneckengrUn was completed in
October 1963 while the stretch from Ober Neuen.L.
dorf to the road crossing was partly excavated.
(See Tpt Summary for February 1963).
(c)
East German Army Objects Uhlenkru (VV 3834)
_
and TorgelowCVAr 3443) ,
In Kreis Pasewalk of Neubrandenburg district,
widening of the Uhlenkrug? Torgelow stretch
was completed in late 1963, (-See Tpt
Summaries for November 1962 and June 1963),
The entire Pasewalk - Viereck (VV 3634-) -
Torgelow road is now 10 - 12 meters wide.
-4. Inland Shipping
a) Passenger_Stcamboat -Spree being rebuilt at VEB Aken/
Elbe Shipyard is to be lout in service on 1 May 1964.
The beat will be incorporated in the East Berlin
"White Fleett!? It is 67 meters long and eight_meters
widot can accommodate 85 passengers and will .be used
on the Soviet Zone inland waterways.
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b) According to a winter program, set up for. the first
time, three boats of the Dresden \alit? Fleet will be
running on the Dresden - Riesa and Dresden - Bad
-Schandau lines,.
c) In mid-January 1964, almost all .Soviet Zone inland
shipping was discontinued because of 'drifting ice and
freezing of the waterways. Icebreakers are being
employed on some stretches of the Elbe and Oder Rivers.:
Alse in the East Berlin ?sector, the most important
waterways, having an about 0.40 meter thick ice
coating, are being kept open by eight icebreakers to
secure commercial and supply transport, in particular
coal transport to Klingenthal Power Plant.
d) Because of repairs, Shiplift Magdeburg-Rothensee,
existing for 25 years, was to be closed for all traffic
from 25 January to 11 February 1964. Each year, for -
varying periods, repair work to this plant is customary
in January/February some years ago it was closed for
-six weeks.?.
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IV. Czechoslovakia
1. Railroad Trans ortation
-Planning and Performance Data
The arrears in freight transportation of the Czech
State Railroads (CSD) amounted to 7.4 million
tons in late 1963. This can partly be traced back
to the fact that the turnaround time of .3.99 days
could not be kept and actually amounted to 4.52 ?
days.
Railroad freight transportation is scheduled to
amount to 218 million tons in 1964, 9.4 million
tons more-than the 1963-plan figure. In order to
meet this plan figure, the turnaround time of 4.16
days is to be achieved and the loading capacity
has to be increased by additional new rolling
stock.
b. Border Crossing Traffic
On 1 January 1964, more than 30,000 tons of freight
arriving from the USSR in 16 trains (including 8
with iron ore) were transloaded in Cierna n.T.
The new de-icing installation put into test
operation on 20 December 1963, stopped operating
for a few days in mid-January 1964. A number of
cars were damaged when unloading them with force.
c. Line Construction
Of the planned 88.4 kilometer long broad gauge
stretch USSR/CSSR border to the East Slovakian
Iron vlorks (Vychodoslovenskezelezarny - VSZ)
(See Tpt. Summary for:December 1963)., the 9
kilometer long stretch from the border to Vojany
has already been completed. The remaining 79.4
kilometers have to be completed by I May 1966.
Surveying of the following five planned route
sections is underway:
First and second route section to Trebisov (EU 5387),
-third section to Kalsa (EU 3985), fourth-section
to Bohdanovce (EU 3089) and the fifth section to
Haniska and from there to the VSZ spur track.
Near Nizna Mysla (EU 2786) the new route is to be
laid on the road bridge spanning at thiS point
the electrified Friendship Line- .The new route will
run then parallel to the Friendship Line will branch
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off south of Barka into the direction of Haniska.
Three large railroad stations, 4 road underpasses, and
three bypassings are planned along the new road. In
addition 600 bridges have to be constructed or widened
and,6.5 kilometers of road have to be rerouted. The
special concrete ties which are necessary for the
track laying, and which could not be made available
for the broad gauge to Vojany, are being produced
by the 'railroad industry pro duction in Cana near
Kosice starting in January 1964.
d. Train Stopping Devices
By completing the installation of automatic train
stopping devices on the Prosenice - Hranice na Morave
stretch on 17 December 1963, the Decin - Osti n.L. -
Kolin and the Prague - Olomouc - Hranice n.Mcir. stretches
are now both equipped with a complete installation
of train stopping devices. The USSR supported the '
installation by making available experts and delivering
the equipment. The equipment of additional main
stretches with relais control and automatic block equip-
ment is being continued with Soviet support, based
on the mutual agreement on technical and scientific
cooperation which has been extended for another 20
years.
e. General Operational Data
During the third quarter of 1963, a total of 111
accidents in which 9 persons were killed and 144 per-
sons injured, occurred on the CSD railroad net. The
material damage- amounted to 8 million Kcs. Traffic
on the respective -stretches was interrupted for 460
hours. A total of 1,307 trains were late, and 93 per
cent of the accidents were caused by CSD employees,
In additional accidents which occured in January 1964,
12 persons were killed and 48 persons injured, some
of them very seriously. At least two diesel cars,
one electric locomotive, one steam locomotive and 30
freight cars were damaged.
f. Ilectrification
(1) Preparatory work is being continued on the Kolin -
Jihlava stretch which is to be electrified by
1965. For the time being, extension and reconstruction
activities are carried out at Havlickuv Brod,
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Jenikov, Caslav, Lestina and Svetla nad
Sazavou railroad Stations. Along the entire stretch
all telephone cables and safety installations are
to be laid underground since the entire stretch
is to be fed by alternate current 25 kV/-50
(2) Similar activities are being carried Out along the
Horazdovice - Strakonice stretch of the Plzen -
'Ceske Budejovice line which is also to be electrified
by 1965. Its first stretch from PIIcon to Horazdovioe
has been serving as alternating current test stretch
since April 19624
Rolling Stock
(1) In addition to the two existing alternating current
test locomotives of type E-479,0 with silicon
rectifiers, Plzend PO (Provozni Oddil) subdivision
is to receive 2 locomotives of the same type with
IGNITRON rectifiers during the first half of 1964.
During the second half of 1964, a new six-axle
locomotive with silicon rectifier is to be
delivered for test traffic. The engine drivers
necessary for this type of locomotives are con-
tinuously trained in Plzen. By the end of 1965,
a, total of 50 trained engine drivers will be
available for operating alternating current
locomotives.
(2) ,The Tatra car factory in Ceska Lipa has completed
a prototype of a new type ZAC freight car. The
car is 16.5 meters long and has a carrying capacity
of 56 tons, has larger side and front doors for
the transportation of freight with larger dimensions,
and the roof can be moved.
h. Energy Supply
The minimum supply of coal locomotives in the depots
prescribed by the CSD Administration for Locomotives
and Electra-Technique amounts to 11 days' requirements'.
The supply in most of the depots of the Central Railroad
(seat Olomouc) has sunk to the level of 6 days' require-
ments and below. Also in some depots of the South
Western Railroad (seat Plzen) the coal situation has
become critical.
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2. Road Tahsportation
Border Crossing_TE2.111
At the Waidhaus ?-? Rozvadov (Federal Republic of Germany -
Czechoslovakia) border crossing point, 50,000 passengers
and 15,000 motor vehicles crossing the border were
registered by the Czechs.
3 Inland Shipping
a.
For the Elbe - Oder Shipping Company (CSPLO) a
new iron concrete push barge is presently under
construction. The vessel is to be built with pre-
fabricated ribs and steel mesh reinforced concrete
walls. The 68-meter long and 9.6-meter wide vessel
is designed for the transportation of loose material
and is to be put into service in the spring of
1964.
b. At the Elbe coal transshipping port of Vanov near Usti,
two additional conveyor belts are to be installed
thus bringing the total number to six belts
which are to increase the daily transshipping
capacity to 4,500 tons of coal.
4. Pipelines_
By 1968, a 520 kilometer long pipeline is to be laid
from the Ukrainian natural gas fields near Ilashawa,
(south of L'vov) to Sala in Slovakia via Strazske.,
The length of the pipeline-on Czech territory will
amount to .approximately 370 kilometers. Beginning in
1970, 1 billion cubic meters natural gas are to be
delivered to Czechoslovakia.
V. Poland'
1, RailroL11.1=prtation
Data. and.Plannings
(1) More than 300 million tons of freight were
transported in 1963 thus surpassing the re-
vised.1963 transportation freight plan of
298 million' tons by 2 million tons. (See Tpt.
Summary for- November 1963).
About 865 million passengers were transported,
about 20 millions more than the plan' figure,
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(2) The 1964 transportation planforesees the
transportation of ?
310-million tons of freight and
885 million passengers.
b. ,Railroad Extension
(1) Line Construction
On 15 December 1963, the 42 kilometer long
single-track standard gauge Kamienna Nowa -
Sokolka stretch was opened to traffic after
three years of construction. Ninety per cent
of the ties are concrete ties, granitic gravel
was used for the roadbed. (See Tpt. Summary
for August 1963). For the time being, 5 pairs
of passenger trains and. 2 pairs of freight
trains are running on this stretch..
(2) Electrification
(a)
Electrification of the Katowice-- Tychy -Biels-
ko Biala line was completed. (See Tpt.
Summary for October 1963).
Since 1 December 1963, electric trains
shave been using this line. The travelling-.
time on this line has been shortened
by 20 minutes and the. capacity of the
line increased by about 15 per cent.
(b) In 1964 and 1965, 632 kilometers of
electrified lines are to be put into
operation including 240 kilometers in
1964 of the following stretches:
Posen - Konin (109 kilometers)
Rzeszow - Medyka (101 kilometers)
Zebrzydowice - Czechowice), (30 kilometers).
(c), In addition, the electrification of the
375 kilometer long main line Strzemieszyce
Lublin via. Tunel Sediszow, Radom,,Dublin
is to be started in 1964 and to be cm-
plete& by 1968.-
Within,the. electrification program this
line is to be prepared for speeds up to
140. km/h..
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(in the previous electrification plan,
this line had been listed under "future
planning until 1970. The 1963 railroad
guide lists this line as being 363 kilo-
meters long).
(3) Lal2-Changing Zone
Beginning with the 1963/64 winter?timetable,
the first stage of a new gauge-changing in-
stallation for passenger trains was put into
operation at Przemysl railroad station.Allegedly,
this installation is the first of this type
to be used by the Polish State Railroads (Ph.P),
Beginning with the 1964 summer timetable, the
entire technical installation with additional
4 gauge-changing sets is to be put into operation
at Przemysl. The entire installation will enable
gauge-changing of about 7 cars per hour.
At a conference held in Lvov , presumably in
early 1963 - attended by representatives of the
'Transport Ministries of the USSR,Rumania and
Poland it was decided to introduce direct
passenlger traffic from Warsaw to Bucharest by
'changing wheel sets according to the individual
gauge of railway. By establishing the gauge-
changing installation at Przemysl the present
considerable detour through the CSSR is to be
avoided and the Polish/Czech border crossing point
at Zebr-zydowice/Petrovice is to be relieved.
c. Rolling Stock
(1)
During the third quarter of 1963, 152 locomotives and
10 electric railcars were damaged or ,damaged
beyond repair. As can be inferred from a statev
ment made by Transport Minister Lewinski,
the percentage of damaged locomotives rose from
22.9 per cent to 25 per cent and of railcar
units from an average of 19 per cent to 23,3
per cent in 1963.
(2) The 1964 plan envisages the delivery of following
rolling stock to the PKP:
57 electric locomotives
43 electric railcar units
140 diesel locomotives (150-800 PS)
13 dieSel locomotives (21100 PS)
67 diesel railcars
7,360 freight cars, including 500 four-axle coal
and boxcars.
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.(3) According to an agreement recently concluded
the. H.Cegielski Works inPlOqaTam will construct
and deliver 350 pas-enger cars to the USSR in
1964.
2. Road Transportation
a. Motor Vehicle Traffic
At present, 1,670,000 motor vehicles broken down
as follows are registered in Poland:
177,000 trucks and special motor vehicles
114,000 priMe movers
16,500 buses
183,000 cars, including more than 140,000 private cars
1,175,000 motorcycles and scooters.
For 1964, the Polish motor vehicle industry plans
the following production:
about 24,300 trucks (including about 5,770 STARS,
of which 670 will be so-called FURG0Ns with complete
superstructure with door);
2,700 "Warszawa pick ups";
9,100 "2,UKs"
3,900 'NYSAs"
700 semitrailers
about 3,500 buses including 1,350 of type "Jelczi'
and 2,150 of type "SAN'
about 18,500 passenger cars,
? about 145,000 motorcycles and scooters.
b. Road Construction
In 1963, the road construction planwas fulfilled
by 94 per cent. The new road constructions of im-
portance are the following:
Warsaw - Deblin (road for motor vehicle through traffic)
- 90 kilometers;
Tomaszow Lubelski (L12.7292 - Jozefow (FA 4694) ?-
?Bilgoraj (FB 2200) - 52 kilometers
?Jozefow (EB 582 550) - Annopol (EB 603 376)Ialong?
Vistula'River - 18 kilometers,
Bialystok (FD 4489). - Korycin-.(FE 388 240)
(section of the road to Augustow). - 39 kilometers.
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The following roads are still under construction or are
just being completed.:
Lomza (ED 7293) - Wizna (ED 9295) 17 kilometers
Wloclawek (CD 6936) 7 Duninow (CD 9727) - 26 kilometers
(part of the Wloclawek-Plock road extending along the
Vistula River)
Jarocin (XT 7261) r- Rychwal (CC 0673) r 36 kilometers.
The first stretch of the Vistula Magistrale from Krakow
to Nowy Korczy.n(DA 865 725) was opened to traffic. The
'construction. of the entire Magistrale from Krakow to
Sandomierz is to be completed next year.
One hundred kilometers of the Warsaw - Katowice - Cieczyn
(CA 2914) road were modernized and the lanes of the
Czechstochowa - Katowice stretch were widened.
In the Biesczady (Beskides) (See Tpt. Summary for October
1963, Paragraph V,2) the construction of several road
stretches was started in 1963.
In 1964, the following is to be
Construction of new roads
Reconstruction of roads
Improvement of road surfaces
carried out:
128 kilometers
111 kilometers
2,700 kilometers
The construction of new roads is concentrated around
greater Warsaw, in Katowice Wojewodzto2'; and around
other industrial centers. In the Nikolai (Mikolow)
(CA 5060) districta modern interchange is being corn-.
plet'ed.
3. Civilian Air Traffic
Breslau has again been included in the regular LOT flight
table, after completion of ?reconstruction work at Breslau-
SchOngarten Airport. Breslau has now one daily direct flight
connection to Danzig in each direction and two flight
connections (later 3) to Warsaw and return,
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