RAILROAD ELECTRIFICATION CONTINUES; PASSENGER SERVICE IS NEGLECTED

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• Publication Date: December 19, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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RAILROAD ffi+'ECTRII'ICATION CU;
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Work on the electrification of the section of the Mosoov-Ryazan' Railroad
System between Penki and the Village imeni Dzerzhinakiy has been completed. ape
substation, contact network, and rolling ctock have been prepared for normal
operation. The first test electric train traveled over the new line 21 October.
The section rune through Ukhtomakiy Rayon. It is expected to be opened by Novem-
ber 7.
Regular electric train operation began 1 November from the Belorussian
Station in Moscow to the station of Golitsyno, on the Western Railroad System.
Up to this time the electric trains had run only as far as Odintsovo.
The Odintaovo-Golitejno electrified section is 21 kilometers long. Passen-
ger faoilitiea have been improved in the stations of Pionerskeya, Borkhushkovo,
Zdravnitea, and other points.
A rail motor-oar depot has been created in the neighborhood of the Belorus-
sian Station of the Western Railroad System. The depot has begun to receive care
from the Biga Railroad Car Building Plant.
Work on electrification of the next section of the Western System, as far
as Zvenigorod, vin begin 3 November.
ZII.AT'WBT DIVISION UNPREPARND ?CN2 CHAMNOVV -- Gudok, No 123, 14 Oct 49
On 1 September preparations for the changeover of the Zlatonat Division of
the South Ural Railroad 8ymtem to electric traction were completed after such
delay. However, there are still many obstacles to the operation of electric
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locomotives on the division. Little attention has been given to the instruction
of locomotive crews, and courses for the preparation of electric locomotive en-
gineers have only just begun. It is estimated that one half of all engineers and
helpers assigned to electric locoxv tives will be operating the locomotives during
the winter for the first time
By order of the Ministry of Transportation, all locomotive engineers and
engineer's helpers were to have taken examinations in their specialties by 1 Sep-
tember. At Zlatouat only one-fifth of the electric locomotive workers took the
examinations.
It is a rare day when there is no case of failure in the locomotive opera-
tions of the division. A repair base large enough to handle the locomotives now
operating on the division has not been created. At the Zlatoust Electric Loco-
motive Depot, which has become one of the largest on the railroad network, there
is no shop for periodic locomotive inspection.
Tice most necessary Installations are lacking in turnaround points. Send
dryers have not been installed, and there are no inspection pits. In the sta-
tion of Kropachevo electric locomotives cannot go up to the send dryer because
several hundred meters of electric contact line have not been Installed. Every
day electric locomotives can be seen being hauled back and forth an the station
RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION PROGRESSES -- Gudok, No 138, 18 Nov 49
The Urals Trust for Construction of Railroad Track (Uraletroyput') is work-
ing on projeots in the Sverdlovsk railroad center, the station of Smyohka, the
station of Smotevet, and in Nizhaiy Tagil.
Construction under the Kiev Construction and Reconstruction Administration
of the Main Administration of Railroad Construction of the vest is progressing
on the first section of the suburban electrified railroad line in Kiev. Electri-
fication of the line will be finished 1 December.
As of 1 November, 29,000 points an the USSR railroad network had been radio-
fled, including 5,454 vad stations and 23,520 trackside dormitories and other
buildings. In these points 17,000 tube radio receivers and 8,500 crystal receiv-
ing sets have been installed, as well as more than 11,000 rebroadcasting points.
The Stalingrad, Yaroslavl', Odessa, Brest-Litovsk, Vinnitea, Koval', Lvov,
Azerbgydzhan, Kazan', Kuybyshev, Orenburg, Ryazan'-Ural, Ashkhabad, and Ufa rail-
road systems have all been completely radiofied.
naaiofication of tine Karaganda xailroad system has been completed. In all,
528 way stations, dormitories, and other buildings have been radlofied. The
Rodin receiving Bets were used. Eleven rebroadcasting units have been set up
on the system.
Radiofication of the Moscow-Kursk Railroad System has been completed, with
installations made in 97 stations and 836 dormitories and other buildings. The
crystal sets installed earlier have all been replaced by tube receiving sets.
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FRS`IGST CARS AESD IN PASSENGER SERVICE -- Gudok, No 139, 20 Nov 49
According to a report of a meeting of the Political Administration of the
Ministry of Transportation, 1,850 freight care are bein6 used in passenger serv-
ice at present. Travel in them is extremely uncomfortable. The head of the
political section of the Soutbweete:n Railroad Eyste- has raised the question of
replacing then. Thousands of care have piled up at railroad oar repair plants.
If all the passenger cars now excluded from service were repaired and put into
use, it would be possible not only to exclude freight care altogether from pas-
senger service but also to put a larger number of additiamal trains into service.
SCOFNS PASEKBG E SERVICE - Gudok, No 127, 23 Oct 49
A recent meeting of the Collegian of the Ministry of Transportation considered
the question of passenger service. The volume of passengers handled in 1949 has
rise, by 9 percent over the 1948 figure. Quantitatively, the railroad systems
are satisfying demands, but qualitatively the service is far from satiofactory.
Delays of passenger trains, including suburban trains, have been allowed on the
Ryazan-Aral, Kuybyshev, Tomsk, and Orenburg systems and. or many systems of the
Central Asia and Central railroad okrugs, thus causing losses to enterprises
through tardiness of workers.
Passenger service on the Moscow-Kursk Railroad Syetom, the largest passenger
carrier, is most unsatisfactory, in the Kurekiy Station in Moscow, little atten-
tion is paid to the comfort, convenience, or accommodation of passengers. Sta-
tion operations are disorganized and the personnel is uninformed and inefficient.
Besides the poor situation in the Kurskiy Station, the system has other short-
comings in respect to passenger service. Construction organizations have completed
only 24.7 percent of the year. plan for restoration of station buildings and only
74 percent of the plan for capital construction of station buildings, as well as
only 25 percent of the plan for repair of hot-water heaters. only 6 of 27 pas-
serger platforms have been repaired. Also, turnover of labor in the station
b'iildings has been very high (639 persons were discharged in 6 months).
Tkachenko, need of the Mosoow-Kursk System, and Gornov, head of the system's
political section, are giving little attention to the poor state of passenger
service on the system.
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