LINES AND TRAFFIC OF CZECH RAILWAYS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600030570-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 570
• Publication Date: March 19, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
ACQUIRED
ti FORMAT?i-iN RF P^RT --?_ O,
CLASSIFICATION SECRET/SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
DATE OF INFORMATION
SOURCE A:
DATE DISI R. %7 MAr 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLE'4ENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
1. The Czechoslovak State Railway System (CSD) has a network totaling approxi-
mately 14,600 kilometers of railway lines. The network forfeited to the USSR
in Ruthenia totaled about 600 kilometers.
2. None of the CSD system has been converted to the Soviet broad gauge of 1,524
mm. A 3. Electrification =at rail. be ov overcome Is befabout &t t 1939 ore electrification elan procceeed shortage of
electric power
4. The moat i ortant lines in Czechoslovakia are:
(a) Pilsen - Prague - Kolin - Aska Trebova - 0.uwac - Prerov Hranice -
Svinov Vitkovice - Bohumin - Zilina - Poprad - Kosice;
(b) Cheb - Karlovy Vary - Chomutov - Most - Usti nad Labem - Podmokly - (to
Dresden);
(c) Prague - Podmokly - (To Dresden);
(d) Prague - Mlada Bolislav - Broumov - (to Poland).
(e) Pragu - Benesov - Tabor - Mezimosti - Horni D7criete - (c7, Ceske Vel-
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,^. - Prerov (or Bratislava);
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(f) Prague - Ceska irenova - Svitavy - Brno -
(g) Bratislava - Prerov - Bohumin (for freight);
(h) Bratislava - Zilina - Bohumin (for passengers).
The first two are the passenger xsgerr train daily' goes from Czechoslocvakiaov aePolandrtofic
and only one military
the USSR.
From Cheb to Pilsen on an express train rewires 57 minutes, and to Cop (Chop, USSR),
an express train run requires 24 hours. The eashours tbaund
fallasrl can recall eland the
datr.in usua
the westbound train usually runs
schedule as operated in 1951 was as follows:
Depart Cheb Agri OD
Trams (a)
5:45 5:45 pp
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5:45 (app) 6:15
the of this schedalev locomotives iknowatheelocomotivePcbanging stations in Slovakia. Bart
of the country; ; cratl 6. Several of the factors governing aapaeity of th' lines of western ghee is areD Traffic
in three volumes of Supplements LSee ID EUCOM Report No RvP 193-51/ Regulations, and pertain only to the Pilsen and tsti pad Labem operatto the ing divisions,
southwest and northwest, respectively of Plague. The actual- traffic on these lines is
somewhat less than the maxim .= traffic capacity. The difference ~caann be seen in the heuallx a operating timetable mmstais; most normal scheda listed The s total of these
rm. The on demand schedules, are run only when r
demand trains represents the difference between the normal traffic and maximum traffic
capacity.
7. Normal traffic between Cheb and Pilsen in 1951 amoanted to about,
ll regular freight trains, each way
2 or 3 irre?'tlar freight trains, eaaheway
12 passenger and *express trains, each way
26 rains per day, each way
between Gheb and Cbslan.tev
14 regular freight trains, ecOb way
2 irregular freight trains, er.oh way
? passenger trains, each way
16-plus trains per day, each way
g. General commodity traffic is hauled on nearly all CSD lines. There are o Oinolines
devoted exclusively to special types of traffic. In autumn; culminating uee4.s
most lines in Bohemia and Maravita have extremely heavy trarfie la potatoes, sugar
and coal.
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