RAIL TRAFFIC VIA MORST/LAUSITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500530001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 14, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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that this station is provided of th arjI track. Trains arriving from Poland
Vorst,v .are loco-
run from Teupli tz, about 16 km east of the I3eisse Fiver, to ,
motives aro exchanged. Brigade looomotives do not operate'via Forst. The
nearest locomotive brigade? Locomotive Column Pto 10, is located in Cottbus.
This brigade operates the trains from the Forst border crossing point to their
destinations in the ?'oviet lone of G'ernarr. (1) All the trains to and from
Poland stop in Forst for about four hours. During this` German and Polish
rolling s'~ock foremen inspect the railroad cars for, suitability for transit
operations.
2? In oar]."- ?Tdly 1951, a new border crossing station was being, built in Forst-
Altstadt, -oast of the jJeisiso River, in the urge town section. This railroad
station is designed to assure the functions presently exercised by the Touplitz
raalrcad station? At present to ncrr railroad station is scheduled to be pre-
vi13.ad with three tracks. (2) Soviet railroadnon stated that a nLw railroad line
rung irg from Sorau to Jubon via So _,-:ori;eld eras completed about 1 "'ay 1951 but
that, , he Lino was nctyet in apsoration. (3) On -the 3ernan side of the, border an
a t,tc rw sty? 1.1 -no r'cnn g 'via ( ) wor Forst is bung bJlt. Th. line, vbiAh 11 does not run via the Forst railroad station, is to ',and`!e rail traffic from
"robon to Cottbus. It is zinlo tract and has such a sharp curve that hoavily
loaded trainrbsve tWcomo to a stop there and then require a 1d from an addi-
tion-al locomotive before starting The ':ridge over the TJoisse,, which
was dcr:ol theca. on the Polish-occupied site of the river,, is being; ?epal. redo
The concrete piers are being reconstructed (5)
On 6 July 1951, a train loaded wi_t'i coal fr; ri Lipper Silesia passed through
ilorha--..ohr ki.rch. The axle of one of the Polish four-axle cars broko, damaging
the tract: for abort 400 meters. Since that time, the -lorlcar-~:Jehrlcirch tborde
crossing station 1 ,as been closed and transit trains are rerouted via Forst
Lausitz. (6)
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the followingg numbers of trains a ssed through the Forst border
cross:ina point, in the directions indicated, dur,: the period from 2 through
9 X :051%
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Date Numbers of Trains Load
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westbound shipments?
2 July
coal and coke
3 Jul;,
Jul;
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Fa1kenberJ, and then pr
bably to Lraridenbur
Havel and Unter wellonborn
der] in-R raelsburU, Nj der-
schuone wide
Falkenberg, and ;thhen pro
bably to Brand nbu l1ave I
and Untervellenborn
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alkenberC, and then
bably to Drandenburc,
and UxA.orti7ellonborn
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Berlin
the train was disassembled
Berlin
Fal konber
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Berlin
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Saxony
enptr tank car un'azown destination
coal and coke Fal.konberc
9 July
Berlin , 60 boxcars each)
armunition unkna n destination
coal and cote J?alkenberg
2 coal and coke Berlin
30 ccrs each
unknown destination)
ammunition Cottbus
1 amunition in the direction of the
(120 axles) Elbe River (sic)
1 coal and coke FalkenberC
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b0 P astbound shipments.
4 July 1 er pty gondola cars untmomn destination
July' 1 ur4eter rood Louna
of 27 ears
per car
17 cars narrow---augo
empty gondola
cars
6 July 1 er:ty- gondola cars
2 filled railroad
tank cars
7 July 1 iron ore
of 14 cars
empty gondola cars
9 J .ly 2 empty gondola cars
Thuringia
"allo- k wiendorf
(7)
unknown destination
30 care
Groeskorbetha ) each
(3)
I31.ankenburg/}Iatz
Mt'3 (Draune uapf )
unk novrn destination
(9)
* i`ote: The. shipments Narked by an asterisk Gros ,od the border in Guben
where they were provided with new shipping labels before being
sent to Forst.
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(1) Forst is probably not used for goviot transit traffic,
Locomotive Column I`io 10 in Cottbus is i quinred with about 30 type 52
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(2) This is reported for the first tinc.but appears possible since Tear itz,
in Polish occupied Gerriony, is too far fr Forst and thus is not well
qualified for a border crossing point.
(3) It is believed that this refers to the reconstruction of the formerly double-
track Sorau-Liebsgen-Lassen-k~o ;nser#eld line. Possibly.. only one track of this
lid, which would be of importance as a link between the Guben-Cad an and the
Forst-Cagan lines, will be rebuilt.
(L) This statement definitely refers. to the construction of a rail link direct ,),-
west of Forst. This link., which will eliminate the Forst railroad station,
will establish a direct connection between the Forst -Cottbus and the Forst-
215X 1 A Guben lines. The latter line-rips reconstructed and reopened only on 1 April.
(5) The bridge is about 4C meters long and res upon a center pier, It was recon-
structed in a temporary fashion end has long needed repa;i; \ It is apparently
planned to replace ttz{ s structure by a p:.rmanont bridge.
(6) The daily operations re orbs of the Soviet lone Directorate -Tenrral, Rail-
roads, in berli.n, continued to list rail traffic via Ilorka Wehr arch during
the period from 3, through 10 July 1951. Possibly the slight traffic via this
r,t10 be ; "pared in t mss`." i*y
(7) i xport and reparations deliveries by the railroad car factor -.r in Ammnondorf
near Tulle.
() 'f-ho shipment was an export or reparations delivery from the Louna Hydro-
genation -plant dispatched to =ire ,lau.
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