DOUBLE TRACKING OF RAILROAD BRIDGES OVER THE ODER RIVER

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• Publication Date: October 4, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone) i i- DATE DISTR. 4 October 1951
SUBJECT Double Tracking of Railroad Bridges
over the Oder River
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amens for two more tracks are .available. Demolition
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bridge site has not been started
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is scheduled to be completed by October 1951.1 (2)
(2) The dismantling of the railroad bri. near flltrnin, on
the Usedom-Swinemuende railroad line, his bridge, which
has a span of 61.6 meters, would yi steel for a
bridge span of 53.4 meters. look on the dismantling of
the bridge has already been started. (4)
(3) Construction of a new river span of 30 meters t an
stimated cost of 1 6oo,000 eastmarks. The er bottom
and banks at the bridge site are sandy; the western
bank of the river is provid with a quay wall; the
eastern bank rises qteeplyf-The span is scheduled to
be completed in 1951.
a. Bridge over the Oder River near Frankfurt/Odor.
At present the bridge has 10 single track spans, It is
planned to construct nine additional single track and one
double track spans. ,:)ne single track span is scheduled to
be removed. Each of the nine single track spans is scheduled
to be 39,4 meters long, while the double track span is to
have a length of 79,8 meters, The single track spans are
be completed in 1951, (3)
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\v-The planned double tracking of the bridge would require]
1) The re air of two available spans of 53.4 meters
each. The spans are steel lattice work. Eighty tons
of steel would be required. The bridge is erheduled to
scheduled to be completed in 1951. The project would
require 1,800 tons of steel and will cost an estimated
3,500,000 eastmarks. Tiers and abutments for the second
track, some of them built in 1946/1047, are available. The
piers are provided with demolition chambers. (5)
All the bridges are designed to be capable of category -E
trains. (6)
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(i) 11 pans for the reconstruction of a second track on the
Berlin-Strausberg-Kuestrin line are reported for the first
time. However since this line is one of the most important
Soviet transit routes the project is bound to be carried out
sooner or later.
(2) For photostat of the plan of the projected bridge, see Annex.
The. bridge over the flood area of the Oder River formerly
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(3) Detailed bride data and a sketch of the structure were
transmitted previously. See d $t.nce half
of the bridge is on Polish occupied t he aonatruotlon
protect requires an agreement with boland,
(4) Tk a repair of this bridge which is on a double track line that
was totall - t after 1945, was reported previously.
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lifting br ge n 0 soviet -one of Germany, suffered
damages to its superstructure during the war. .ccording to
Soviet Zone press reports thr-e salvage ships have been employed
since June 1951 to raise he middle section of the bridge, which
has a weight of 12 tons. This operation is tic: eduled to take
about f our weeks,
(5) A report on this bridge with an attached sketch ws transmitted
previously. The s 3ructure is on the most important double.traok
erlin-Warsaw--Brest Litovsk line, which Is used by the bulk
of Soviet transit traffic.
(6) Category E trains have an axle pressure of 20 metric b n.s.
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