POLISH-SOVIET RAIL TRAFFIC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007600400006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 31, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP82-00457R007600400006-2
COUNTRY Poland
DATE DISTR. 31 ;:;ay 1951
SUBJECT Polish $oviat Rail. Tr : f e NO. CF PAGES
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ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
There is a r pac cia1 da13y t: !n in both directions betevreen Benin an. Bikas 4'
Litovsk via ,.Tarsaw, u..red by Soviet rilitary person el.a couriere, dipia atn
and tI"~.ose civilians ,rho can obtain remission to use thin train. All 1x s-
sanne,rn entering or lea%vinp the Soviet Union chance trains at Brest-Litovsk.
In addition, them ai to special freirrht trains which run bett:een Serlin
and Brest-Litovsk each day and carry special freit ht to the Soviet
Union. ,cviat ni.l.,it' ry transport trains do not take this route, but ordi-
narily use lines running throuryh Lublin or Grodno-Sialky^tok.. The rain line
for foods to or from the Soviet Union is the Kyakot,, -L,,- ow line, on which
there are ur to fifty trains o?from 46 to 5i/+ cars each rlay. Trains cominc
into Poland from the Soviet Union carry iron ore, cotton and rilitary an
riont'i .
2. Loadinu rlatforran are bai.nrr reconrii.t:Toneda str-;n,ct'~ened, or re-laced in
.any irsaces on Polish railroads, and new loaiin' "Platforms are be:?nr! con-
structed in p? aces which have not for iersly been e uirped Frith such rlatfoy s ..
It in thouiht that these rlatformn are now atrona enou.rah to surport tanks
and hoary artillery pieces. Many stations are bei.n eiuipNd with surple-
-entary, railroad lines to facilitate quick shiftsn of cars, and surplice
of rails, ties and coal are beinrr stored up In nnany place's in Poland.
3. All railroad lines near 'Tarsaw are beinrv electrified and. r or1ernized. The
'Tarsaw-Poznan rai.:!road line w 1.1 be electrified in the near future.
Railroads in the Polish section of foyer East Prisnia are in poor condition
but there are plans to Irlprove then! soon.
5. The U. Ce^rielstki factory at Pozn^n has been renamed "The Stalin stabli hmont"
and now .produces railroad passenger cars for the Soviet Union. These cars are
dent to Kaliningrad on a special base frame (sic), and are equi_rred there with
Russian wide-huge bases.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION PT CD NO,
CLASSIFICATION
sssl ea DISTRIBUI 1014
U,2
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/08: CIA-RDP82-00457R007600400006-2