RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN EAST GERMANY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A002900090006-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: February 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT I~,i.1TOa3 Construction Pro3ects in East Germany N0. f}F P~GE~
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I. On 7 September 1953 the partly destroyed loading; x?~p at _~
Prietaerburg near Guestrow was a ng reconstructed. The ramp is 20G meters long...
2. In early September, the Berlin regional railroad headquarters was ordered to
have aspur-track constructed f~a the Sachsenhausen rai].roed station to the
Central De of for State Material Reeerv8s which is in process of being es~ablishe~
the spot track could be built within two weeks-.
3. Prior to late August the following rail links of sgur
tracks branching off from the A ten rg- essnitz main railroad line {T:~uringia
were under construction:
a. Rail link from the Paditz'~'~d~op to the Kotteritz-Klausa line, ~rhich ~}~e.e
connection to the Altenburg airfield. ~
b, Hail link between the Altenburg-Goessnits and Goessnitz-Scbmoelln la`net;
3,mmediatel.y south of Lehndorf. In August, the Iink wa3 nearing c~mpl.st:~.on~.
However, the b~d.dge over the Pleisse River has not been completed. -~'
c. In Altenburg, ~C spot track was under construction from the old gas ~aox-ks
to the Vereinigung V'olkseigener Erfassungs- and Aufkaufsbetriebe (Aaeac~.a-
tion of Nationalized Procurement t~,gene~.es~ (VERB). EY Tate August, about
one third of the spur track had bEen cc~plettsd. 4
4. ketch of the spur track under conatructior~ in ~:he VE$9S
~~, n ~en . tm 17 September, construction work was inspected b'~'
Soviet general and lO officers. 4
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-tracking of the 41es+,ring Berlin ne a een dl~'k~~ ~'i
been postponed to 1955? In 1954, the track in use on this 7_ine is to be rein-
fortl9 to be able to withstand an axle pressure of 20 tons and a speed cif SO km
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Wildpark-~:ichendorf railroa n
erlin railroad circuit.
a. The line has been designed to.cloae the gap n _
It is to originate n$ar the Golm railroad: station, will erase trg Her11n-
-Braada3nburg railroad line near Kuhfort and the Treuenb~-i.etze:~ '~i.ldp~rk li.ile
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