ECONOMIC - TRANSPORTATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2011
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• Publication Date: March 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Eoonomlc - Transportation
Daily newspaper
Yugoslavia
January.-February 1949
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YUGQ81AV RAILROAD EXCEED 1947 MD 1949 PLANS
I.AIL TRANSPORT IN 1948 -- Borba, No 14, 17 Jan 49
Yugoslav railroads exceed their 1947 plan by 30 percent and their
1948 plan by 26 percent. 154,560,000 passengers, or three times as many
as in 1938, were carried last year. The freight plan was fulfilled 103.5
percent, on the basis of the transport of 79 percent more -freight than in
1939.
From 1946 through 1948, over 1,040 kilometer, of new railroad were
built, or only 80 kilometers lose than the toal length of all lines built
in Yugoslavia before the war. A large number of locomotives and retiroad
cars have been repaired or built. Nevertheless, the growth of the rail-
roAds has not kept pace with tbn needs of the national economy.
The railroad transport plan for 1945 is 33 percent greats: than the
1946 plan. Meohaaization of loading, unloading, and reloading will be
increased. Industrial track will be built at such places as Eakanj, Breza,
and Leljzpik to connect mines, faotorlee, and ether installations with the
main standard-gauge lines. Work will be continued un 516 kilometers of single
and double track now under construction.
Many of the problems of the railroads could have been solved except
for the failure of Czechoslovakia and Poland, in accordance with the
Coeinform Resolution, to deliver rails and other essential materials.
W improvements can be made in organizational efficiency and planning.
Killion of hours wore wasted in 1948 because of Latanegs of trains, lateness
of workers, oars returning empty, idle care; slow loading, unloading, and're-
lnading; poor planning, and other faults.
More use should be made of inland water transport, expeoially for
coal, wood, and building materials, to relieve the burden on the railroads.
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CROATIAN RAILROADS fl 1945 -- Borba, No 23, 27 Jan 49
On the day of liberation LTn 19427, nl;y 440 of the 2,647 kilometers
of railroad in Croatia were fit for service. Forty-five percent of the
track in stations, 10,483 meters of bridges, all the water stations, 234
station buildings, and 2,563 c?her buildings had been destroyed. Fifty-
two locomotives and 3,500 care were lying beside the track.
By the end of 1945, trains were running on all lines in Croatia,
except across the Lika. Two hundred twenty-one locomotives and 2,755
passenger and freight care had been repaired. In October 1945, more
passengers were carried than Suring the same month of 1939. By 1 May
1946, a new line had been opened between Zagreb and Split. By January
1946, 65 percent of the telegraph-telephone lines had been restored.
Five percent more passenger and 40 percent more freight oars had been
repaired than in 1939. .
NEW RAIIPOAAD MAIL CARS -- Borba, No 17, 20 Jan 49
Six new railroad mail care have been put into service at Stnederevska
Palanks The oars, of steel construction, were manufacture;: the
"Jaseniea' Feotory of Tugoslai materials. They were designed ny Stevan
Markovio and Dragoslav Jovanovio, Yugoslav engineers. The first oar,
built in September 1948, was the eiret all-steel long-type mail car to
be lade in'Tugoslavia. While its predeoessore were crowded and unoom
fortable, these are among the longest in Europe, and are easily
maintainad, safe, spacious and convenient. The Interior is entirely
new. The exterior is streamlined so that air resistance is decreased
about 25 percent and speed increased 12-13 percent.
Whereas in the old sail oars the truucks-,arried most of the weight,
in the new ones the weight of the load is distributed over the entire
structure. The new oars take curves easily, and the trunks are of muaM
lighter contraction tad have a shorter wheel base, which is a great
advantage In case of a oollisi,n.
Jovano-to and Markovic also won first and second prizes in a contest,
sponsored by the Ministry of Transportation for designing a long-type steel
passenger oar. The "Jasenica" Faotbry began production of the prototype of
this oar in January. It will be the most modern type of passenger oar in
l4irope,
BLOCK SIGNAL PRODUCTION -- Borba, No 20, 24 Jan 49
Modern electrodynamic block-signal equipment, made in Yugoslavia, has
been put into service at the Sevnioa station on the Zagreb-Ljublyans rtil-
road line. The equipment was designed and manufactured at the block-
sigual workshop at Crveni Srst, near His ffn Serbi]. It was made and
installed in only 46 days.
Signal belle produced by the same workshop wt'1 entirely replace the
obsolete and isyractioal equipment now in use on Yugoslav railroads.
Cloaks for railroad stetiuls are now being mass-produced from
Yugoslav materials at this workshop.
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TRAINS LATE -- Borba, No 23, 27 Jan qo , .:.
In December 1943, the total delay of trains in the Zagreb area averaged
20 hours per day for passenger trains and about 100 hours for freight
trains.. On 1 January, passenger train delay totaled 7 hours; freight
traine,about 30 hours. Delay had progressively decreased on 10 and 20
January.
At the main railroad station in Zagreb, a train arrives or leaves
every 6-minutes. Every half minute a locomotive or car starts.
CARGO Snip BEPAIRE _ Borba, No 17, 20 Fab 49
Split -- The ship nrvatska (Croatia), now under repair at the "Vicko
Sretulovic"Shipyard , will Boon be ready for service. It nas been
transformed from a freighter into a combination cargo-passenger ship, and
will accommodate 17 passengers. An infirmary and a salon have been added
in the. space between docks, and comfortable and hygienic quarters for the
crew have been built in the gtern.
The ifrvatska was built in the US In 1945. In the spring of 1947
it struck a:ffiae in the Adriatic, which tore a hole of about 60 square
meters in the ship noel rendered it unfit for service. The Yugoslav
government bought it and turned it over the the "Yioko 1Gretalovio" Ship-
yard nor repair.
Although eledtrio welding on the hall of a ship had never been done in
Zagoslavla before, the shipyard workers successfully welded the Hrvatska,
straightened the keel from the insido by sears of a hydraulic press, die-
mantled the axle of the propeller, repaired the turbines, and installed
now boilers.
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