RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A004100200008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2002
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: June 15, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Rail Freiryt1t it .affic -:Au o-t.rh ..a t Gcni Ala
Border Stations
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_h 1 March 1954, 63 railroad tank cars loaded with gasoline wore dispatched from
(_ ;rrosakor betha to Stettin,,2
Rail shipments ',served at the Frankfurt/Oder marshalling yard between 1 and _.12
tirrch included:
: t in. Name and Type of a.oad From. To
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46 B uranium ore Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
62 G and F iron ore Brest Litovsk 'rai&Cfi rt/oder
8 54 B empty Frankfurt/Oder Brest Litovsk
52 G and F boxes and 11
56 B and F
travelling cranes
boxes, machinery
B and F - boxes, tubing.
empty
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Z4.. 1n Fe'bru y 195/4 rte total of 4.,611 freight cars loaded with grain arr{ved_,in the
GDR via Frankfurt/Odor and ' 1,183 cars via ('xuben01
2;. In February, 8. total of 22 railroad tank curs loaded with gasoline, re resenting
total of 81,000 tons, were. dispatched from Boehlen to Brest-Litovsk,
3. Uranium ore shipments dispatched to Brost Litovsk included:5 ttaxcar loa 3 fr'6mm.
tue om 16-February, 43 and 46. bc%ar loads from Schwarzenberg on .arid 2 Tel uary.
r es ctiv'ely
.4m Be at , .27 -February ,1954, a train of 50 to 60 empty -railroad.-,tank carsy passsd
t -,& ugh -:tbers'bach en route to Hohenau or Matzlen in .Austria, Duringthe reported -
riud no ? oade tank care
a x rived via Ebersbach --all such tank cars we?e di;patokied
through Bad Schcxtdau 3
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54 G
empty
Frankfur
t/Odor
Brest Litovsk
54 B and F
51.E G
armor plates,,
Iron tubing
empty
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tovsk
t/Oder
Fra.nkfur't/Oder
Brest Litovsk
55 B
undetormined
Brest Li
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Frai kf:'urt/Oder
4
12
54 G
iron ore
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AG A undetermined
46 B and F 3 railroad cranes, Frankfurt/Odor Brest Litovsk
cable
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G for gondola car,, F for flat cars, and
tank car.
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Goth'nenta In January 1954, a total of 2 2.82 car loads arrived vie.
Fran r 7& r and 633 car loads via Guben0 I. I 25X1 A
This indicates that grain imports doubled during the reported period.
na a Deliveries by East German hydrogenation plan`,;,s to the USSR and empty
tank ears returned to Germany,,
3U These oxnpty cars had carried crude oil from Austria to the GDR The
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Comment, Iron ore deliveries from the USSR to the Foundry Combine Bast &t
Fuerstenbsrg an the Oder River. In ]December 1953 and JanLiaa 1954 res otivel.
47,936 tons and 37,635 tons of iron ore were imported.
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