MISCELLANEOUS DDR REICHSBAHN INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009200350009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 7, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved For Release 2001/0 ? ,FrItH9PM-00457R0092003
Ifikill-44j v 1 mu
CLASSIFICATION ..
..., Grer.,vzs,.., V.E.f7 02IOTALo ONL7
CENTUE )41 iffiaidNCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COWRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Miscellaneous DOR Reichsbahn Information
PLACE
ACQUIRED
25X1A
DATE OF
INFO.
25X1C
NOT CIRCULATE
REPORT NO,
CD NO..
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO
IL
7 Nov. 1951
2
25X1X
L. The passenger tariff conference held in Oslo, Norway, beginning 25-2eptember
1951, was attended by Director-General 'erwin Kramer )(free) littsken and (fnu)
Lange of the Reichsbahn rain Office.
2. The reparations rail shipment collecting point at Leipzi.I2ageitz 13
being expanded.
3. The Reichsbahn coal supply, not including the iron reserve, stood at 6,.5
dayls requirement at the end of Septedeer 3951.
4. Twelve additional nm-15 Soviet mdlitary aircraft were delired at Driest,
near 'Brandenburg, recently.
The 2eichsbahn is still struggling with :dans to reroute and reschedule
all trains now running through the western sectors of Derlin. The goal is
to eliminate all transit traffic except Allied niUtary trains,.
6. It is planned to shut down the roundhouse in Derlin,Grunewald (:ritish
Sector) and transfer maintenance activities to Seddin. Some personnel
have already been moved.
7. On both 26 and 27 September 1951, a special train made up of 16 passenger
coaches and two freight cars departed from Frankfurt/Oder under dispatch.
to Brest.. Thirty-six hours later, each train returned through Frankfurt/
Oder and rolled on in the direction of Hallo. The train orders stated that
these nem hauling German specialists, technicians, and engineera,
8. Indicative of the locomotive shortage is a recent directive by Director,
General Kramer to the effect.' that the =regiment of lone engines has ITiority
over express trains.
9. Fourteen 50-ton low-bed flatcars were ordered to tand by in the yarc3.s at
Berlin-Lichtenberg during the first week in October.
CLASSIFICATION
thieement NC ...
No Change In Class. El
Declassified
cw,4i1 41/fp S S
co
STATE
3c
NAVY
x
M RS
r?
DISTRIBUTION
I ARMY
3tk
AIR
X
FBI

Nati:
-' 4 1 .
Approved For Release 2001/03/06 : CIA-RDP82-00457R009200350009-7
Approved For Release 200ij3i&ONiEi
SE T/bONTROL - U.S. OFFIC ALS ONLY
SECURITY INFO:MT=
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
?
1114
57R009200350009-7
25X1A
10, Since about 25 August 1951, a train of 15 passenger coaches arrives in
Frankfurt/oder from the Soviet Union, about every four or five days.
The same train returns empy after unloading. The westbound loaded
trains have the train numbers 7118 and 7120; the eastbound empty trains
have the numbers 7117 and 7119, These trains carry Russian girls aged
between 17 and 21. At Frankfurt/Odor the girls change to other trains
and denart for 'erbig, Cottbus, Berlin and other coints
11. The 1-e.E7t Mark income of the ReiChsbahn for the month of July, 1951,
was derived from and in tho amounts as shown below:
Berlin S-Bahn
DM-1;900,000 (West)
Interzonal passenger t.-affic
711,600 "
Interzonal freight trf.ffit
103,700
41
Intrazonal nassehger ;raffle
388,400
11
Intrazonal freight traffic
876,300
11
Sundry
20,800
if
- TOTAL
?11?1111110.?
DM-4,000,800 (West)
Interzone/ traffic providss West :fiteks from movement of passengers and
goods between Western Germany and ''est Berlin. Intrazonal traffic
concerns movements from 7est Berlin to points within the DDR. Only RBD
Berlin takes in Wnst Larks,
CONFIUNT141.
Approved For Release 201066erdA-RDP82-00457R009200350009-7