BULGARIAN RAILROADS INTRODUCE SOVIET TECHNIQUES

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 249
• Publication Date: May 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Bulgaria
SUBJECT Transportation - Rail
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED' Sofia
DATE
PUBLISHED 9 Mar 1951
LANGUAGE
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AEfECTINS THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITN.N THE MEANING OF tSFIONAGE ACT SO
U. S. C.. S1 AND SS. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR TIME REYtLATION
OF ITS CONTENTS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS FRO'
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST. .5 May 1951
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS ' .EVALUATED INFORMATION
BULGARIAN RAILROADS INTRODUCE SOVIET TECHNIQUES
FLAN RR WORK, SPEED CI_ASSICATION.-- Sofia, Izgrev, 9 Max 51
The classification of trains has now been established on the Soviet pat-
tern, by introducing a technological procedure strictly determining every
single operation and setting up the proper plan. Soviet Engineer Dobrotin.
held a series of lectures for workers of the Sovia Railroad Yard, describing
the program of these procedures. Special charts have been set up for classi-
fication operations.
The new system provides for much greater speed in classification work,
which heretofore took an indefinite time. At present, the make-up and dis-
patch of a freight train of 45 cars takes about 60 minutes. The stopover time
of cars in transit has been reduced from 18 hours to 3.29, and that of cars
with local destination from 48 hours to 12. Thus, car circulation has been
considerably increased.
All railroad brigades are now working on complex assignments, in accord-
ance with the system. established by switching engineer Kataev, which combines
the operations of yard engineer, switchman, maintenance man, warehouse aan, nn_d
car inspector. Owing to the excellent work of the brigades, no fines have been
paid in the Sofia Railroad Yard for the last 3 months.
REDUCE,REPAIR COST OF LOCOMOTIVES -- Sofia, Izgrev, 9 Mar 51
Engineers at the Stara Zagora Railroad Depot have been successful in re-
ducing the current-repair cost of locomotives. The savings reached in :urrent-
repaii? costs of locomotive No 17.46 have been increased by 11 percent over De-
cember-.1950, and brought down to 0.75 leva per road-kilometer. Engineer Petkov
reduced current-repair costs on his freight locomotive to 2.25 leva per road-
kilometer.
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on the other hsnd, Engineer Zh. Katilov reached a record in the opposite
direction by increasing the repair costs on his locomotive from 10 leva to
11.30 per road kilometer. The savings in locomotive repair costs have been
accomplished by follOV;.ng closely the methods used by Soviet engineers.
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