ZILINA-CIERNA NAD TISOU RAILROAD LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008600230008-8
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: September 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Czgchoslovakia
SUBJECT Zilina-Cierna nad Tisou Railroad Line
PLACE
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DATE OF
INFO. To April 1951
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12 Sept. 1951
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1, The work of converting the Zil.ina (Q50/092). pisska Nova
Ves (R49/D87) Kosice(R49/E34) Cierna nad Tisou R49/E92) rail-
road to a double?-track line has progressed to the point where
the first section Zilina-Ruzomberok(Q5O/C99) -Popradflatry
(Q50/D68)-Spisska Nova Ves, is completed. From Spisska Nova
Ves to Vitkovice (R49/D96) the terrain offers few obstacles t4
construction and this section is almost completed, too0
Ballast top Is being rolled and sleepers and rails are :eing
la id. .
2,, The Vitkovice==Krompachy (R49/E06) section poses a more difficult
problem. Rocky areas have to be blasted, viaducts constructed
and roadways straightened. Between Vitkovice and Olcnava(R49/D6)
a steel viaduct 85 m. long and 22 m. high supported on
reinforced concrete pillars has been built. A bridge 10 m. long
and 12 m. high has been constructed over the Ol:nava Creek
some 250 m. west of the Olenava station. West of Krompachy a
new double-track viaduct 450 m, long and 40 mb high has been
built across the Hornad River to eliminate a curve in the road
3. The Krompachy-Kluknava (R49/E16) -Margecany (R49/9l6) -Kysak
(R491E25) stretch presents the most serious construction
difficulties and will probably require until November 1952
to comp1ete" In order to lay the double track, it was
necessary to cut a pass 1000 m. long out of the rock near
Rychnava ((R49/RO6) , The roadway as also straightened at this
point. West of Margecany a steel bridge 30 m- long and 22 m,
high was built to span the Hornad Rivera Near Roleva Hut
(R49/E16) a tunnel is being drilled through the rock alongside
the existing single.track tunnel to make way for another
track. Work is being done from both sides, but having to cut
through basaltic rock has slowed the progress considerably and
therefore, the tunnel is only halfway finished;; When complete
it will be 800 m,, long. From the tunnel to Mala boding (R49/E29)
the embankment along the Hornad has to be walled for a distance
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West of Kysak a new bridge about 120 mo long and 12 m. high
has been built over the Hornad, and south of the town a
single-track bridge 40 ma long has been built over the same
river. North of Kostolany (R49/E35) a bridge 150 m,, long
was constructed over the Hornado A new single-track bridge
spans the Hornad south of Teplieany(R49/E35); and north of
Tahanovee (R49/E'34) a single-track tunnel 250 m. long
has been built alongside the old ones,
4e As a result of double tracking it was necessary
to enlarge railroad stations at Margeeany and Kysak, The
station at Kysak now has 34 tracks.
50 Work on the northeastern branch of the railroad (Kysak-
Presov (R49/E37) Vranov/Teplou CR49/ :653 --Strazske (R49/E75)
Humenne (R4'9/E86) .Medzilaborce (R50/E89) , was slowed down
considerably when manhinery and manpower were withdrawn from
that section and were brought to work on the Spisska Nova Ves-
Kosice lihe0 To date a second track has been laid only from
Kysak to Kendice (R49/E36) and from Medzilaborce to Koskovce
(R50/98'?),.. Men and machinery were also transferred to the
Spisska Nova Ves Kosice section from the north central
branch Podoiinec (R501!80) -Orlov/Plavec M50/ZOO), with the
result that work on that line has all but ceased for the time
being,,
None of the Spisska Nova Ves-Koss ce section has been electrified
yet, ant no apparent preparations are being made to erect over-
head power lines n However t along the Zilina---Vrutky-Ruzcberok
stretch, poles 2& overhead power lines have been erected but
are still without wires. Once the railroad is electrified,.
power will be supplied for the eastern section by the hydro'
electric plant ett Krompachy and for the western section by the
power plant at Ustle nad Oravou (Q50/Y12)
Technical equipment used on the Sp'z sska Nova Ves - Kosice
line includes the following.
21 excavators from 0.5 cue, m