EXPRESS TRAINS TO OPERATE BETWEEN MOSCOW AND BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009600160013-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: December 21, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGEfi~N+ REPORT NO.
ORMATION -PORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT d cpress Trains to Operate
25X1 A between Moscow and Berlin
DATE DISTR. 27. December 1951
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IRCULAT E SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
ii oll crvirig; are o:ccerpts from a letter t c'~e ;rem sent-, by the Berlin regional
railroad headquarters on 13 October l f)'51 by order of the Directorate
General, Railroads, Berlin
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In order to determine whether it i'rcnld. be feasible to establish a direct
rail connection using Soviet express train coaches between 'Toscoww' and il^rlin-
Ostbahnhof and ,ildpark, we require information on the exact measurement? ~a of
all structures such as e es of platforms, clearances of brides, distances
of signals from the ranter line of tracks, otcap on the railroad line from the
Odor bridge via Frar~Icfur t/Odor passenger stations,, Berlin--iboepenick, Dorlin,,.-
Osthahn nof, lvuni.ielsburg mar .ing Yakdg, Koepen~ick, Alt-Glionicko, T01tow.
Grossbeoron Genshag on Meath, :".ic;hondorf, Seddin, ":'i1.ldpark, to Potsdam and
Gr'iebnitzsooG The r'icasure cents of Soviet ..:press coaches differ from cor ros-
pondin; German coaches. Line diagrams will have to be submitted in duplicate
by 22 October 1951. 3iu?nals and construction work vx ich are more than 23 me-
tern from the center line of railroad tracks zy.od not be reported, Tho sane
cspplies to bras os mid viaducts 1 f their clearance heights are more than 5.5
rioters and if diagonal bracings are not in the way.
25X1 A * Cornc-)Pt- To Cate, one express train, the sod-calloc fllue 1';xpress, has
operated daily between or"? in a Ad Brost Litovsk visa Frail?e"urt/Oc'er F> : nis
train is cor:iposed of Geri-San coaches 'Dulled by dorn;zi type 01 locomiotives and
operated by Soviet Loco;iotive Column .;o r2,
Soviet coaches operate between Drest Litovsk and ' Ioscow,, ri through-connection
between Berlin and '.oscoii using Soviet coaches ~vroul_d require an exchange of
wheel sets at the Soviet change-over point or the use oaf _ax.L es which can ho
converted. German railroad installations are built in accordance with str3nd4Wct
measurements laid down for the rollii-g; stock of the Gerlan railroad sy.ate,a