ECONOMY - RAIL TRANSPORTATION

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• Publication Date: December 31, 1948
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to give advance notice of shipment, for changing of route, insuftioient ut111-
zation of carriers, eend.ing trucks out empty, eto., as providod by lax.
paid venous bus iaaaege a similar sum because they oould not supp]y Dare at
th9 time specsif led in the oontract .
million dinars in'3eptember for unfult'i11ed aoettrsats, not oounting demurrage
for idle Dare; costa of reshipment; and change of etatioa. 'The railroads
olaser aooperatim betxeen the railroads and the enterprises they serve xould
result in still further improvement. For example, ashy 70 percent of the
9.reight sere that had been reserved xere used is September. The hemp taotory
ire Buk:ovar failed to load its 178 oars; the "Ivan Doran" building enter~oriee
in 9ubotioa used ~sn.y 32 of the 407 care it had eskod far, sad the ~oetolao
coal mina shipped 603 oarloads lase than it had aontraoted for, n$ a lose
of 59,000 dinars. Business throughout the country paid the railroads 33
In 8eptesnber, 6,171 mere freight care xere used than in August. However,
FRSYGHT SITUATION IN SISPTSPID$t -- Barba, No 256, 21 Oat 48
950 nex passenger oars,, and 14,560 aev freight cars of Yugoslav oorutruatioa
130 narrox-gauge locomotives, 2,000 passenger ante, sad 14,500 freight Dare
RSPAZR OF RAH,WAY E@AIZ'A~i9T -- Barba, Ao 256, 21 Oot 48
The Five-Year Plan provldee that 450 etandarcY-gauge loaamotivse and
Last year the railroad maohins shape fulfilled their year's plan 37 aeys
ahead of eohedulej the 8ubatioa shop, 3 mmths. This year the Betsy s-o,
!du'lbc+r, BSs,'aad Smederevo repair shops have fallen short of thslr goals, and '.
is Jgly the various repair shops received tvios u such worn ns thq tinished.::
Oasuequently, at gubotioa, far a~zample, irsi~-t oars uadao? repair wre nut at
Our trains nre naa oexrying mars freight. than ever bktare, including most
quantities of building mates?ials far Novi Bewgeed, the?Brofharhoa~ end tAiita
highway, the Bibsa-16iin railvtp line, sad the double track betxean Belgrade sad
wSY TRAIIIB AR$ LATS -- Barba, ll0 254, 19 Dot 48
of aosl, or opal of poao? queaity is another faotar At 8lsvmski Bcod, viakovai,
Zsmnn,_ Dad Belgrade, tens of looomotivsa wait far coal dvrxy dq, same u long
Qne asuae is the greater volume at repair sad ooeistxuotim felting place m,
the tracks. A double track ie being built m the meta lies (Y,agreb-Bnlgrade).
The shortage of oars often means tbat a trs+in must wait to be made up. Lso1t
all lines, whether express, passenger, nixed, or irei~t.
Latenus of trains per kilometer inoreued from an sverage of P2 seomde
la J1s7y to 24 as August sad 37 in 8eptembsr. Todq trains are late m almost
'Recently, several freight trains vets abeusdmed by their stets in etatiow
an the Belgrade-9lultavoi line, for awls, bsoaws the food thq held brought
from home or received tram the railroad empply servias did not tut the three
aa? mao?e days of the trip. Oftioinls bars been aruak m dut, ar ban left the
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Reloading of the irelght from aare of ame gauge to`oare of the other may
a way that the whore aar must be unloaded at a certain station"'for a'?ing7.e' ,"'"
paokage.
Although supply programs for railwa~r workars have impa?oved, there, are .
paroetnt. These results show an improvement Dear last year.
The railwgq workers of 8ea~bte fulfilled their first half-year transport.
plan 1~ perasat, the paeeengar traaspart plan 111.7 Paroent, the plan far
RAYLxAY $~7FlOlffiYOY Ilt 8B'RBYfl -- Polltilsa, Ao 13028, ~~ Sep 48
through th0 stall Ysrosko Aebro tunnel, then follow the waters slope of the
vallq of Blimso creek, a total aS 600 teters bsfars it enters the male
rhea oaa~leted, the tunnel through Zagreb Mamtaia will be the longest is
Yugosla~is. The gain tunnel will bs 3,200 meters lang. The raiiry will peso
trala.
to aaa>mtte to Zsgrsb, and treaspartatim Eras muss and faotariss will be
greatly fsollitated. The L4-kiloteter trip wound the tountaia betw~ea
Zagreb and 8tubioko Toplioe, the last stop an the proposed railway, will be''
reduced sore than half, sad l4~aa 2 hours by bus to lws than 3o tinntes by
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ettlre Oraatim piedtoat. Thou~aads of xamka~rs frot the pisdaant will bs able
Zagreb llamtsin. This is the first opexatiaa is the building d s tugasl
+~.?Y,A~Ow ~?~ llfeuneain. by uav of which ea eleotrio railway wi11 oomneot
. The new entsrpn'Sea, "Tonal" (tunnel), with mots than 100 workers, has
started woe^k pn a 210-meter tvlnael throe4gh Yarosko Aebro, a sa6a17. foothill of
aaAr~T TlTl~L ~ YIA7081AVZA -- Asa, Ao llo, 6 Aug 48
81nos 1 Jts~, 4,000 menbers o! the paapls'? Youth have been building the
line. One third of the earthwork hY a0rea4T been fiaishci. Aboat 35,E
cubic aetsrei of earL?h have been made Sato sn esbenloeat. 'The oharaoteristio
level grand aaitM 6onstrnotian oasparatiwelj esq. The line will hswe four
mall bridges 7-10 tetere long. xork hu not started as the bridges because
lartiag areas, sad oases out at the mnube. Ths line iQ 3o kilaseters long,`.
or 40, iaoludiag traoln st the stations. Beoondary tracks oaoneot the line '
with all parts of the Ait (soot) area.
8aC,6rade's chief soaro? of supply o! wsgetsblee, ti].k, teat, pcultr7, sad ~?
eo far only 60 perosat of the oultinbls area hu been utilised because of
pear 'ail oastumiostiaos.
Ths~nr lies branches off Eras the Bel~rsde-Psnowo_liae at_Oros, oanasots
Oonetruotian ad the railwq lies is Panoevaoki Ait will !+erait !till
eaploitatian of about 70,000 hectares od' fertile lead. This area vill bs
PAB~/AOII A1! Lnfi -- Barbs, ifo 186, 2 Aug 48
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3o. that tbe.line mqp be finished?by 1 September, 22 conduits in the embeniaaent ?.
x111 be made oY corrugated iron pipe, xhich ie quicker and mush aheape~r thew
building concrete culverts. Hoxever, the line will not be finished on solieduie
beoause orP iaefficienoy in procuring canstruati~ materials end meahiaexy: OL
the nine rollers required for oompreeeiaag earth, only taro have arriRed, and sae
ie often out of commiseian,.
PAHCSPACBI RIT I,IIIS COIITINUIV -- Pclitika, Bo 13004, 16 Aug 1a6
Twenty-five brigades, made up of 3,200 youth sad 7oC union meeDbers, hare.
oa?pleted ali the earthxork and laid about 2 kilometers of track as the nex
Pnnaevaoki Hit youth line, xbioh xiade across the Banat plain iron O+roa to
Boeni F'ok {gievara), during fire last 28 days. The preparatory xe~k ]rated
l8 dt~ye. The.;ins ie to be finished by 28 August, but ire oompletiaa dspbmds
oae~alnlG of pAxcavACaz Hrr HAl1, xnls -- Politika, iQo 13022, 6 dop h8
The Paaoevaaki Hit rnilvey line xea opened to traffic as 5 8eptembar.
The first train earried a load oS vegetables to Belgrade. Three thousand of the
11,000 hectares that make up the Penoevaoki Rit are pleated is vegetables,
sad can supply ~ percent of the needs of Belgrade. Best year this tigare'
x111 rise to 60 percent. "!'hie yew' 7~ farm buAldings wili be built rheas.
The youth builders of the line have laid daft 'JO 1rilofsters o! traolr.
PROJ1aCTiCD 8A8A0-HOPAJAOA 7.IIDZ -- Politllca, Ao 13030, lb Sep 48
Preiimiaary Rork began 1 August on the sex standard-gwge railReV Nhioh Rill
oaaaeot the fertile districts of llaova, Pooeriaa, sad Podrla,~? ~fith the Pal~evo
basin sad Bosnia, qnd evantuallj x111 bs aatended to the ?ea. The lies is bsiag
built ahead of schedule because at the defends o! the accelerated de~elopfsat
at industry and eleotrifioatian. A 36-leilafstsr seotian of the traoi< !s eapeoted
to be tin=shed this year.
The narroR-gauge track betReea 8abaa and esn,~a L~Ll~aoa Rill b? replasee
b7 standard gauge. The narrow-guige traoi< Ras laid is iglu, m level groaad
load of traffic. &~idgea 8111 bs built across the Jadar and Jeres.
D01lBL3 TRAOL 011 'PB= -ZAORiCB 7.IIQ -- Had, ll0 1L0, 10 Sep b8
Work bras bsJun a month ago an the doable track Rhioh is being laid an the
Belgrade-Sagreb lies. lfor Rork is being dme an the ssotion beCwsn 8s]~-ode?
seotian betareen Ruts sad erefah llitrovioa, sad a. tar s. ~Satcvoi by the end
of October.
Ths doable track is being laid.beoauas of grertt oafgeatioa on this part at
the Belgrade-Zagreb line, Rhioh receives oaal, are, end Rocd:;iraf Yi~e eafaa~!-
8arr~evo youth line sad the ffioko-8anoiioi lies, transports #ara products tray
the Po~vodiaa to less tartils areas, and carries building snterialf for tL?e
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RAIL LIl1S I11 CROATYA ?- V,~eenik, Ao 1079, 21 Qot L8
The sew Lupoglav-Matul,ie rail line will aonneot the Rasa-7ebin oval basis
and the railwgq net of Istria with the root of Yhgoslavia. Tho 55-kilometer
I~upo87.av-Sta113e line, begun this suamor, ~+ill pa~rmit tho transport ad' oval
fremm !lase by roil.
At present oval is shfp~y? to Ri,~eka by sea. Anew rail line is seeded
to oooneot with Rijeka, Ever, although Lupoglav ie on19 12 kilometers fz?am
Ahtul~le in a straight line, the present rail route via Bt Petex' u Dieraou is
123 kilometers. Therefore whoa the Lupoglav-8tali,e 11ae is finished, b
15-kiiloeetrr ooaaeatiug line wi31 be begun between btatul~e and Prao~e, to
provide the shortest oaaaneotio~- betereem Istria aead Ri,~ekn sad the teat of
Croatia.
PICi? &II1E ]$ CROATIW OP~D TO TRA19'IC -= Politihx, Ro 13004, 16 Aug 48
On 1S August pnrt of the Piareer lies, from Dubrava to the vi e ~
8leoaoveo, eras tormal~ opened to tratfia at t&}s i3laage of Oareeiaa' eio7
aeon Zagreb. The tutors Pioneer building there and the Piarser raiiway~esw
being built ae a eiagle pro~eot. (ihea oagpletod the line is to rue beteiieau
the e111egae of Bubrava sad Yidoveo. The youth brigades, Wlfioh began wank
1'3 April, have pledged to finish the lies by 30 Ootobsr, emd by 20 >Toeianber
to build 20 dwellings sad 18 sdmiaistrative buildings is Pianssr Oity.
lour largo sad two sera!! railwaf~bridgee have bean bnilts 5,920 asters
aS track have bean laid in open oonatry sad 310 meters !a the stations.
Dab~rava, the tarmiasl aS the Piarsar rsilw. Se sot mare than a leilesut.d?
line be as~taaded u tar ss the Piarsar railwq station in Dubrava, so that
thin line sill bs are of the important transportatiao tows is the suburbs oS
TRAOE ALO11G T!Q fitOT~t800D A!D W11'PY 8I08ilAY -- !prods! List, 10 1044, 1"- Oct 48
lar the past month voluatear builders tram Zagreb have bean bnildiag a
steadard-gauge track ruar:.g +.he whole la~ngth at their esatiar at the >~ather-
baad and i~,ita highway. .
POlBT2zi ~- BAII. LZQ ~ gL4~17A -- 8lovawki Parooevaleo, 110 211, 4 Sep 48
Beosnt]a 4 oagaie-Sar of the'111aistry of Oamunioatioos laspeoted the
terrain between iepogl,ava sad II~a~lar to study the feasibility of building
rail oanneotians betwen these points, erhioh would p~roiide the shartast .
mate between Cel~? sad the iadeurtrial venter aS Perasdia. the rail liar
goes lust trot Yarasdia thra~gh the oval tields of the Ivea3soioa dietriot "
to tie Ooiubova coal mice, tray which it aartianes is a straight 13ae.aaly
another 8 kilamsters to >4~apina, but Se prevented by Mauat Btrahinsoioa
~ ~maloiag a ~unotim . Oaaneotiar with the Yaraedia-0alnborao end with the
ogateo-Dapiaa-Zaprwio rail liaw ie neoseeary sot ml~ tar !oval
needs, but also beoauee snob a ilea could taoilitats the shipment at caul
iron the Ivaneo end (ioluboveo miap to the wet end lltrnish the soet direct
oomeotian rich OelJe and Varasdia.
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P.Yperte have, established. that erteneion of :the, line from Oolubovao to,
grapina would be difficult because of the terrain and would aost over 100
million diaaare mace, if 'the line wore to braaah near Lepoglava and the rnil-
Wackera oa the 8e~eaaa-Dutov].,~e rallva,:lice reoaratly vets aosmended for
their success in nutting a tunnel 350 meters long aaa the line during 97 work-.
DSPELOPA~IIT ~' A RAILWAY 8TA7CZ0fi -- Slbodna Dslmaai~a, Fo 1130, 14 Sep 48
The Zagreb west etntiaa new dose a third more business theta before the-
. :,'wax'. The first half of this gear 4,874 trains were made up in this atatian,
3,907 of them freight trains. An average of 3~ care ate loaded and unloaded
RAIL LIlR 1F ROgFIA OPffi'F$D -- Politikn, No 13058, 18 Oat 48
Oa 16 October the first train as the new standard-gauge track from Soya
EYekn to Tuala entered the Tusla stntian: Work xetvs begun is August on the
4,006-meter lies, which includes s reiffioroed-oanorete bridge, made with the
new ban=its oa~at, over the Jala Hiver. The oe~eat res applied at 1300 haute
15 October and by the asst dqy was ready far traffic. This xas the first tlms `'
that this aev oemeat, which is acv being produced in Itagoslavia, has been need
an such n pco~~ot.
ROAD AsD HAII. L'~ BZ'i'ii~( ROB1fIA A8D OROATIA -- Glas, ll0 1035, 22,0ot ~
RAIL L'QPF IA BOg1PIA -- Oelobod.,~enJe, No 621, 20 Oat 48
The Boeut-Biiel,~iaxn rail line, now under oanetruatiaa, will permit rapid
trexlspact of earn and other agricultural produate from the 8esbari~a, the
meet Textile region of Boeaia, to the Zagreb-BelBarsds line end the teat of '.
mine to Ylagoslav industrial oentecej and relieve the bottleneck ir_ the transport
as sugar beets, hnndreds of oelrloade of which are lined up on the bauak or
PROdFQ'i'aD RAII. LIIfE IIf BOgFIA -- Herbs, IIo 256, 21 Oot 48
The People's Youth of Ziviaiae sad the apprentlaee ad the Tito mine have
pledged to build 800 anetere of railxag track between 2lviaioe end D~urd,evik.
The wuckecs and officials of Lhe railwety collective at Elaevc are vacking
voluntarily to lqy a new railve;v track at Buko~aaaai and to aorreot the bed of
the Lavoani River, wdaiah regularly floods the tznok at Podvia. One hundred
sad ten meters of track have already been laid. The new tract should relieve
the bottlaaeak which hoe been delaying tralae for long periods in the station.
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The youth o: ~}a Luke have pled~s9d to build a railway line from the
gpyh LIRE IId BOSNIA -- oelobod~an,~e, lYo, 589, 13 Sep 48
This summer apothem aew line ll~ kilometers long will be bnilb from vio to
will have a double freak.
new Dassengar ana freight station will be built at 910. Thee peripheral line
rallvayy line skirting l~ubl,,ana. _$toet of the work will be-finished thie~au~er.
NH,Si RA7I.WAY L7Nffi Il~ BEAV$BIA -- 8rpeka Ri~ea, No 213, 9 Jul 48
RA][L LINE 1N CROATIA -- l'olitika, Bo 13019, 3 dap ~
the feeding ~ wamkore as the proJeot? has aot been propea~ly pro. ,-
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plei:iag the Sa?eka-'Yu~la ii~pe by lq Ootobem, lntroduoing ties bride ysted end
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A rail buildame' ool3.eotlve in Tau~la hea ua$emtekep the teak ~ aom.
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A new rail line is being Ludt between l4tae-o a?d Bsodioa. by Y~~ ~~'
YOOTH LIID! IN 81@87A -- Politikn, No 13021, 5 $ep ~
8aturdsy-at 2159, arriving st Tito^o IIiias Btmda,T at O'(lOf and-a tram lepiag.
Between gs]~rade end Yegreb, sn stprese leaving 8slgrads_svery 8aturdq
wi]1 be available is ad)litim to the regular-trainer
8eoanse of inoreassd demnd, the fol3,owing week-end pesaangem eersiae .
ADDITIONAL PA8831~xS2 ~~'YICS -- Yolitika, No 13002, 14 Aug 48
A netr passenger station built by trohmtesre of the P~sopls'e hart snd
Ni1i RAII,IiAY Si'ATION AT 80Ii11N -- Borba, No 188, 4 Aag 48
The par railw,y statim which is being built is 8arye-o rill DA t3a aio~t
aodara !a the Dalksna. ThL Tear 185 lrilaMt~'a as netr r~ tri].I bi bailt is ... .
mania cad Heraego~ins, and Tf tilaraetrara of na- !asset ssilary traalt trill be yaidy
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