CONDITION OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010500380010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: October 3, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

CLASSIFICATION'
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COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
Condition of Rail Transportation in Czechoslovakia
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10/3/61
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THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
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On 7 October 19 the now winter train schedule for Czechoslovakia went
into effect. The CAD (Czechoslovak State Railways) explained on the first
page of the winter schedule that because of increased freight traffic in
the fall of 1951 many of the scheduled passenger trains will not be running.
Red notices, listing the scheduled passenger trains vTuhich will not be
running, have been posted at all railroad stations.
Even passenger trains which do not aSpear on the red notices often do not
run or are several hours late. At larger railroad stations train arrivals
and departures are no longer announced because the.dispatcher frequently
has to ask the debarking passengers where the train has come from and
where it is going. For the most part passenger trains are not heated, and
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the majority of the railroad cars are without electric
trains have been delayed because the engines were uncoupled and attached
to freight trains. the passengers say that the
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