1. HUNGARIAN STATE RAILWAYS 2. BRIDGES

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800450006-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 9, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 3, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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Thle 1)Ocument contains Information affecting the Na
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean ..
itig of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the D.B.Owe. as
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COUNTRY
gary/pbla"rd/Bulgaria/Rumania
SUBJECT 1e Hgaz?ian State Railways
2.
Bridges
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 3 April 1953
NO. OF PAGES 2
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
20 Locomotives.
a. The Minister of Communications has decreed that by.31 August 1953 the
nwa er is to be increased to 2,000. The level of locomotives as of
July 1952 wasi
In :serview or sheds? a 1860
Rkpeoted from Poland by and of 1952 - 42
b. ?"Pisnoto" (sits) lpoomotivesa 0sanady (ft )s, General Manager of the y
was assured Warsaw n=ur g the summer of 1952,-that there were 116
movable engines and 50 immovable, Engineer Biro and his group of experts,
rho'?- ere sent to Poland to deal with this and other questions, discovered
that.therp were actually 190 movable engines.
2. Freight cars from Poland.
By 9 October 19,52 500 should have been finished, but the engineer sent to
inspect before delivery found-that 120 freight oars had been fitted with
Polish, Bulgarian and Czech parts. He insisted on replacement of these
parts by Polish-one. but the result was tl'1at delivery was not to be
oompleted.until:the end of March 19530
Be Reallocation of Rolling Stook.
42 engines
132 enis care have have been been, returned from Poland up to the and of 1952,
returned from ro.land t}p to the end of 1952.
75 passenger. opaohes have been returned from Poland up to the end of 19524
4. Taking Over of Local Ra?
Men the $Ltidape~st ~d district) they ~reifowndit~i be too gL7 (local railways in
in the most appalling condition.
The truck axles were over 15 years old, lezid` many were seamed with cracks in
the metal. 700 had to he scrapped.
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5.. Shortage. of materials
a F`+ the f1rst .guar 8r of 1953 the L&V applied for 1600 tons of axles.
They were allocated only 300 tons*
b.. Locomotive, fire boxes and spare parts are now being made of 14-16 mm.
iron sheets instead of from oopper6
o. The MATAG in unable to supply steam cylinders as all their production of
these is going to the Soviet Union.
6. Brridgesa
a. Z?eparations -are -being _made _-to.mine all..-the road and rail bridges in the
..whole country, -Bore holes -are,being-made in the bridges already built.
The others are having detonating chambers built in during the course of
their construction.
b. Ujpest bridges The materials for,the arches over the main river bed have
not yet been supplied. The bridge certainly appears to be much behind
schedule.
o. New bridge at'Ruse-Giurgius
1. Anew bridge about 2.4 km. long is to be built by 30 September 1953
over the'Aanube to take the place of the present ferry. The plans
have been drawn up by the Russians.,.,who, -will be responsible for..
directing the construction. The materials are to come from Polish,
Czech and?Hungarian works. The three center spans,. each 160 in.
long, -will to made in Hungarian 'workshops of Polish material.. An
engineer. has been sent to Poland to urge delivery.. The smaller
spans (30 m.,, 80 in. and 120 md) will be made in Poland and Czechoslovakia.
2. There will be a double railway track in the middle on the lowest
level of -the-bridge and above that a vehicular way with a 2.4'm strip
for foot passengers on each side,
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7. 3a'
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The ore transloading installeation is now' comple
8. Amendments to the Time Table.
The result of the two,ameridments was that as of 14 December 1952 and January
1953 about 4CO trains, a week have been out' onto There is no morning fast
train to Gyr, or to Szeged, or to Debrecen.
9. Accident: in Roq4rotti.
A, crane oar??(manufaotured at the" Gyyr 'Rail road Car "Works) was being unted
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balancing of ~ a~ie srastthe sidto start e balanaetr~felledown, tearing
side- al~noing apparatus gv y and .
down the signals and the pillar of the pas~senger foot bridge and damaging
six passenger coaches standing on the next track.
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