THE STATE RAILWAYS MAV

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900370015-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 2006
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 19, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO. 51-4AA
FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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Hungary
The State Railways MAV
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793
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The average figure of railway engines out of service is 15-2Q sets
(Garnituren) for3 6 and sometimes more hours per day. Because of the
critical shortage In locomotives the Minister of Communications deals with
each case personally and heavy fines are inipose& which only have the effect
of embitter-tng the railway personnel. In the only engine factory in the
country (MVAG, Budapest) all the leading technicians- have bed missing
s-tnce the middle of. the first week in July 1952 and it. is believed that
they have been dismissed.
Plat cars :
The greatest pressure in the repair workshops is being -pUt on the general
overhaul of 200, 20-ton flat cars,
Safety-signalling devices.
On the Budapest - Hegyeshalom stretch these are being.re-organized so that
trains can run on both tracks in the.same direction simultaneously. This
re-oorganization is being carried out from east to west and the work is
in progress near Sz ,r.
4+. Traffic:
The sidings near Almasfuzito which were formerly empty were on 11 July 1952
occupied by several hundred Polish tank cars which have been hired to help
out the shortage.
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5. On 8 .July 1952 the stations on the Szolnok .- Debrecen - NyiregyhAza line
were almost empty:
On 11 July 1952/ two hospita],. trains were. observed standing at Acs.
New Constructions-e
In 1951 priority was
given to the immediate bu.ildbng of new loading ramp
and passing tracks in 8oproii and Csorna, on the Gyor - Sopr~jn stretch. Csorna
was completed, but has not yet been passed by the experts. no work has yet
started at Sopron, but one passing track has been laid at both Kony and
Rabatamasi. This plan has now been shelved and no further urgency is attached
to it.
An ore transloading station for trains with a capacity of 1
000 tons was to
'be
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built,with urgent priority, at ZAhony. This was to be ready by the 15 September
1952.
The press reports about the new line between R&tszilas and Sztalinv ,ros are
correct.
10. Identity cakdh:
When the Ministry of Commun-iaations and Postal Affairs was s r;lit up in January
1952, the personnel of the new Satin stry was given new 'iddnntity cards. These
must contain a photograph of the holder. According to the rl4les printed.on
page 3, article 3, the holders are entitled to use all forms of public
transport free of charge/ including1trains running according to the war time-
tableal The wording of page 2 of the identity card (title etc.) is printed
in Hungarian, Russian, and. French.
11. Reduction-of personnel-
There is a commission charged with the reduction of personnel in the Ministry
of Communications. The chairman is a `Munkasklder' - i.e. a man of working
class origin who has been screened as politically reliable. He has ordained that of
the 56 employees of the traction section, 23 are to be dismissed and when
the head of this department -protested, he explained that his knowledge of
railway matters was.confined to the fact that ea train is a thing you get-into
and sit down on.'
Air raid shelters with 2.5 m. thick concrete walls are being built in Pecs,
HatvaA, Miskolc, and Debrecen..
13 The railway sccideut between i sbAnya Feis6 and Rakos on 4 June 1952
was accurately reported by the Voice of America. There were 35 - 40 dead,
40 seriously injured and about 300 injured altogether At the weekly
political meeting the station personnel was told that the signalman in charge
of the points had been hanged and.that .the - station master had beert condemned
tj life impriainent
14. It is estimated that 500, 2O-ton covered freight chrs will be supplied by
To,1a,nd to Hungary by the end of 1952, 1,000 covered freight cars were on
order but could not be supplied to -Hungary because of the lack of raw material.
?15. During 1952/ the Gyor Car Factory was to construct 200, 60-ton coal cars in
excess of the planned quantity for Russia. This delivery was to replace,a
delivery of foodstuffs already ordered.
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