RECONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TRACK ON THE DRESDEN-DIRNA-BAD SCHANDAU RAILROAD LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006900630004-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: January 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE OF CONTENT 12 December 190
DATE PREPARED_ 21-
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1. It was noticed on 12 Decorate r 1950 that a second track had beeit con-
structed betweenPirna (I; 51/P 33) and fbervogel;esang. '?ork on the
Obcrvogel elan -:kTe len Rathen (N 51/F 3C)- Koenigstein (N 51/F 37)
stretch was not yet started. About 100 meters of trackage have been
laid from ;,.oenigstein in the direction of Bad Schandau (Nd 51/F 57).
The second track between Bad Schandau and Krippen has been completed.
tdork on the construction of the second track between Krippen and Schoena
(N 51/F.57) on the Czech border, a 6-11am stretch, had not been started
yet. It is expected that the Bad Schandau Dresden (N 52/F 29) railroad
line will be operated double-track in the near future.
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track of the line which runs from Dresden via Pirna and Bad Schandau to
Prague, was dismantled. This line has been reconstructed double-track in
vzechoslovakia. The line, which is the main transit route into Czecho-
slovakia, is of both military and economic importance. Its reconstruction
as a double-track line, which has been planned for years, was postponed
because of lack of materials. The report does not contain arr information
on the status of the Dresden r-irna line.
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ornment. This project is reported for the first time. The second
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