RAIL FREIGHT TRAFFIC THROUGH EAST GERMAN BORDER STATIONS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 22, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY East Germany
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I TOPIC Rail Freight Traffic through Bast German Border Stations
EVALUATION
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PAGES . 9 - ENCLOSURES (NO.
REMARKS
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Date in Number of
November Tank Cars
23
14
ATE PREPARED...22 January ry 1954
the following gasoline shipments were dispatched 25X
etween 4 and 27 November 1953:
Tons
956.3
777.6
1-.26 27 1079.5
27 16 626.4
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24 ecem er:
F - flatcar
G - gondola car
T - tank car
Date in Number and Type From
December of Gars
19
44, F
zl 0, 29 F
22 20 0, 20 F
20 42 T
Magdeburg
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Troeglitz
CLASSIFICATION SECRA,'TJ
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3. The following shipments, were observed at the Frankfurt/Oder narshaling yard
between 11 and 31 Decer.-ber 1953:
B - boxcar
CI3 -- converted boxcar
- refrigerator car
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Date in Number and Load
December Type of Cars
14
54 B
50 B and F
empty grain shuttle
train
machinery
iron constructions
Frankfurt/Oder
Wittenberg
P%deburg
Brest Litovsk
46 F
machinery
Erfurt
Ichtershausen
Magdeburg
Berlin
42 F
machinery
hagdeburg
burzen
Dessau
Berlin
20 1'
machinery
Berlin
Magdebur
g
15
54 G
empty
Frankfurt/Oder
55 B
empty grain shuttle
train
12 G
coal.
H
P rsebu
rg
10 F
profile iron
Wie-. eri
tzsch
46 B a F
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machinery
reparations goods
Berlin
Koethen
Bresdon
Brest L
itovsk
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46 B a 3 F
42 B and F
40 B and F
- ceramics
mac .nery parts
printed material
machinery parts
ceramics
films
Leipzig
Dammjtsch
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NN,agdeburg
S a ssfnrt
Bi tteirf eld
Wolfen
furniture
maobi eery
Bad Liebenwerda
Chemnit:
16
4.6 F
machinery ixarts
Dessau
Koet}yen
29 R
new
:15 B and F
military goods
34 trucks
Rash eberg
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11 B
military goods
Berlin
50 R
empty
r rankf"art/Gder
ar
600
ore
Brest Litovsk
Ziltendorf
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Date in Number and Load
December Type of Cars
17 46 B and F motor vehicle tires
reparations goods
sheet aluminum
46 B and F cables
sheet aluminam
machinery
43 B and F machinery parts
54 G
18 54G
.30B
5573
23 54 0
56 B
4
55 F
55 G
40 :`
empty
empty grain shuttle
train
empty
empty grain. shuttle
train
empty grain shuttle
train
empty grain shuttle
train
new
wheel sets
structural iron
eapay
military goods
structural iron
ev~,y grin shuttle
train
empty
empty grain shuttle
train
new trucks
empty
empty grain shuttle
train
machinery arts
Fuerstenwalde
Hettstedt
Leipzig
Berlin
Hettstedt
Stassfurt
lilagdeburg
Dessau
Berlin
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk
Frankfurt/Oder Dresden
Chemnitz
Leipzig
Haile
Leipzig
] .ienburg
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Leipzig py~
BbSysL Lito'Y'ek
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Date i Number and Load
Qeee .b r Type of Cara
25 53 B empty grain shuttle
train
54 G empty
22 B Cotton
26 55 B empty grain shuttle
train
55 B empty grain shuttle
train
27
29
no G empty
10, F jet aircraft
56 G motor vehicle tires
2 Ft and j~ machinery parts
54 G empt
-1.10 B empty grain shuttle
train
2B B munition
Frankfurt/ Cyder
Dresden
Riesa
Fuerstenw lde
Magdeburg
iurzen
Derlin
Frankfurt/Oder
Brest Litovsk 3.
Gro?maenhain 5
Brest Litovsk
Altengrebow j
5 B
Kapen ) 6
Toenhirt
28 F
iron
Leipzig
Halle
Erfurt
36 B
military goods
Jueterbog
34 B
aunition
Tor ,au 6
F
AT gull 76.2 =
Alt enhain
Bra. is
Engelsdorf
20 F
iron
C:hemultz
Leipdig
Halle
43 F
46 ft
machinery
empty
Berlin
Grlmma
Magdeburg
Fr,i furt/Odor
Brest Litovsk
9G
U F
type 11.13 rcc Eat
Jueterbog
lac ohere
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1euruppin
ii,athenoky
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Bata in Number 'ash Load
Doceiabor Type of Cars
29
sheet metal and
planting
8 F 8 trucks
16 F new trucks
48 T empty for vegetable
34 B
16 F
31 50 R
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ammunition
trucks
W 'Pty
It
40 hipments
1udicke
Frankfurt/Oder
' l December:
3;
Date in
Do comber
_ express coaches
Number and Load
Type of Cars
13
31 It
8 F
now
wheel sets
15
23 R
now
4,8 R
butt or
40 G
vehicles
16
15 R
5 F
new
wheel. sets
29 It
8 F
new
wheel sets
Dessau
46 B
r?rSLSr
Aue
20 G
vehicles
F rarxkfurt/Cer
18
31 It
naw
De-seau.
25 R
butter
Frankfurt/O'der
19
23 R
s F
new
who'el sets
gtalle
2C
24 cars
reparations goods
Magdeburg
3E:CBETa
Wuensdorf
9
Erfurt
Brost Litovsk
Toepdhin
Cottbus
Brest Litovsk 4
Altenburg 9
between 13 and
to
Brest Litovsk
te
of
Chemnitz
Brest Litovsk
Leipzig 4
Brost. Litovsl-u
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Date In Number and Load
December Type of Care
23
2.1,
25 R
31 R.
8F
28 R
5F
31 R
8F
new
wheel sets
new
wheel sets
new
wheel sets
3 Polish motor rail. cars
22 IF
5F
14 E
4 F
33 F
46 B
36 CB9 2 13,
10 G
56 B
4. electric
new
whee . se'i:;s
new
whte1 sets
empty
rail coaches
25
24 F
31) C?, 2 G
14 F
7 8 a.-id F
31
+0 cars
reparations goods
empty
reparations goods
a munition
aiored scout cars
grain
Itergsdorf
Frankfurt/Oder
Bautsen
Goerl.itz
Rade berg
ScInarzenberg a
("xiennits
Goerlitz
Leipzig
?s gdeburg
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Gottbus 4
Chemnitz 4
Brest Litovsk
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Frankfurt/Oder L
Brest Litovsk 10
n
RromId t/Oiler
It
Frankfurt/tad er
Brest Litovsk
Leipzig
Frankfa t/crier Alte above
Pes'sauu
Laiestr in
aA'01-Inig-dorf
Joeterbog
4 motor rail coaches
37,133
Brest Litovsk
Chemxsitz 1
Brest Litovsk
13
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o . ow ng s. a Tents paeeed thr
:e?:~ex~ s ,on between and 31
ot.~ n :tnh a and,
Vecernber Type of Cars
12 23 R
6 F wheel sets
13 36 F reparations goods
23 R
7 F wheel sets
15 23 R
3 F 'Wheel sets
16 20 F reparations goods
15 R
5 F wheel sets
18 23 R
8 F whe4,1 sets
19 23 R
8 F wheel sets
21 39 F reparations goods
12 V` n
23 R
6 F wheel sets
23;
8 F wheel sets
.C E
3 F wheel gets
23 h
7 F wheel sets
`?3 23R
7-F wheel sets
23R
7 F Wheel sots
45 3 Ul sSe"
27 10 B ammaunition
28 40 F 50 trucks
3C 10 R
3 .F wheel sets
Brest Litovsk
Fran] tart/ Ter Tospohin 6
direction of Cottbus
Brest Litovsk 2
31 36 F 50 trucks Fran irt/0der direction of Cotter 9
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10 x ecem?ert
R3M,) - heavy duty flatcars
Date in Number and Load
December Type of Care
Ruminelsburg , 'rankfurt/Cde:
Berlin Erfurt 14
Strausberg Kueetrin
11 10 B, 35 F 3 G military goods Leipzig
10 25 15y and RRym empty
56 cars
55 F empty
16 46 F
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vehicles Frankfurt/Oder Berlin-Mager-
vishhof
military goods
I shipments
Date in Humabav and
December Tye of Cars
19 Ss B
20 20 Paym
empty
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Juoterbog Altes Lager 1hoegel.in
Frankfurt/baler Satekorn
Satzkorn Kirchr oeser
Jco? nigsborn Frankfurt/
iJJ cars Buckow
8. On 13 December 1 a ehi er.t of 62 guns and 7 armored personnel ca,rri re was obw
w r?ved at the > t co railroad station on route fron the i; ,S I. to ce ;elJ.n via
.1era cfurt/odera m?
9. On 13 December, a train I ar?ryinj 61 guns and
7 armored pet soxmsl carriers arrived at the Rathenow railroad station from
F ankfur t brier. S J The guns were forwarded to the ?ado Plant, while the
armored personnel carriers proceeded in the direction of Stendal,
3.0e On 13 December, 30 new field kitchens consigned to the KVa' were shipped from
Rath nnedorf to Schmeri,n
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137 boxcars and 36 boxcars with ammunition were dieitched
to ernbyuc o z an Perleber g reu rectively between 15 and 119 December. 1,7
:?.2. Since l ; acardber, _ no baux.I Me sbi e .er is have been dispatched via the Eberebach
2* y Reparationss deliveries of East German railroad car factories to
the :;.R and the pertaining wheel' sets to be used on these care in the USSR. As
cop.. ,red with the preceding; months these deliveries increased in /Deve. ber, pro-
bably in an . ?ort to N.1-fill the cuotta prescribed for 2953.
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4c, m? .. Soviet ore deliveries for the Foundry Combine East at Fkae ten-
25X1 4. &~pty cars dispatched to the east for fat imports and fat deliveries
by the USSR and the satellite countries to East Germany.
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nom. Large a munition derots ce the GCFG are located at the receiving
Aircraft for the Twenty-Fourth Air Army.
25X1 7. n;Ir. wince October 1953, increased gun shipments, probably consisting
of heavy AT guns, have been observed arriving in East Germany. Accord ng to avail-
able information, a total of about 50-C guns arrived in last Germany prior to 31
December 1953. The shipments listed in paragraphs 7,, 8 and 9 are identical..
25X1 8. QC "tsl . Between 1hy and 14oveirber 1953, 300 to 350 type 14-13 and type 1:9.31
rocket launchers were diss wched from the USSR to Fast Germany. It appears that the
return of old rocket launchers to the USSR was started in December.
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25X1 .12. . The converted bo=ars were probably dispatched to the USSR for the
reps tn of German `s
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and export deliveries.
25X1 14 C Ap o The dispatch of heavy=--duty flatcars to the East had continuously
oer? reported during the preceding months. Apparently 25X1
this dispatch also continued in December at a .ecreas rate.
25X1 15. CgueA . As a motor vehicle distribution point of the P is located at
Berlin-Nlagerviehhof, these shipments were probably consigned to the KV7 .
3 X1 16. LG receiving station mentioned indicate
that the ship ren ,cons s' F o : ra . on supl ly.
25X1 1.7. A 1Vp arrs mitiran depot is located at Schwerin-Sternbu.chholz, while
no such installation has so far been observed in Perleberg. The establishment of
an ammunition detot at ?erl.eber,g is, however,, believed possible.
25X11$. m Previous information indicated that bauxite shipments f= o m,~ Hungary
w , c as normally been directed via VIM herka border station, were recently re-
routet through Ebersbach beast, of increased coal shipments from. x clari through
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ed again through Horka.
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nt. Dispatching stations and the number of cars indicate with certainty
These trucks and tractors were probably consigned to the GOFG.
he trains carried uranium ore to the USSR.
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