COAL SITUATION OF RAILROADS

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CLASSIFICATION e t
CENTRAL IN*TEI,.LGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO
COUNTRY Eart Germany
ABJECT Coal SLt Lion of Piailroods
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTA:N8 1 NFORDaTIOA AFFECTING THS NATIONAL DEFLN$I
OF TNI UNITED STATES. WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 19. SECTIONS TSS
AMD 751, OF THE U. S. CODE. AS AMEMDID. TNAMSNISSION OR VEL-
IS PORNONISITED ST LAW THE RZP DO it V-92 RI OISn01~ 1 E0.
daily Vielle
17 and 19 January 1955:
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNRVALUATED'Ii FORMA ION
t'h follo~rir..~; coa'. s coc':: ;LPL n
1:'ie i o1lo?win'; oo .. st:,c'k^ , c.% ieci
in tons, wero available to the GDR railroads be }.when --7 :..r:. 9 Zt any:
Date i.:n January Coal for Locomotinjo.,) Ship
Hard Coal Brown Coal of ~3_:.ves J?its
Briquettes
17
13
y9
21,200 52,300
219300 50,600
20,700 39,700
3.
The following data on coal stocks and coal consirption
'betvreen 18 January and 2 ,yebruarys
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STATE X NAVY fj x
ARMY AIR X
Date in January
21
19 52
S E-C-R F-T
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'.'2, 700
33,00)
3 %.,500
February
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Briquettes (tons)
Coal dust (tons)
Raw brown coal (tons)
Schlammkohle (tons)
Total (134)
Days' requirements
Supply (BU)
Consumption (BU)
50,675 44,261 45,221
322 214 443
14,041 12,239 10,982
5,376 i^,5'56 3,544
94,038 82,730 88,455
3.7 3 2 3~9
24,153 20,524 29,469
25,885 25.493. 22,297
4, The following data on coal stocks
10 and 26 January:
a,
Da.t
Daily requirements available;.
in ~Tanuar~r 10 12
lib
20
24
26
Daily requirements 4.8 4;.7
3.7
3.4
3.2
3.2
b.
Total coal stocks available, in tons
Date in Hard Coal Brown Coal Hard Coal Raw B
rown Coal Dust
Janua_
Briquettes Slurry Coal
10
69,955
24,204 6,517 17,
026
504
12
66.546
24,429 6,329 16,
01
532
18
50,675
21.366 5,376 14,
04.
322
20
47,278
19,797 5,125 .129
654
278
24
42,824
21,376 4,596 12,
632
300
26
40,774
16,662 4,334 12,
071,
33
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On 20 January 1955, a conference was held at the Ministry for
Transport iL Berlin with State Secretary Szczepecki (fru) in
chair., The conference was attended by representatives of the GDR
railroads, of the Polish hard coal mining, the Polish state -railroads.
(PICP) and by Melms (fnu), special authorized agent of the-GDR for
,
fuel supply
Subject of discussions was the presen coal situation
he possibility of hard coal imports. Labs (fnu) director
general of the Polish coal mining, explained that favorable results
were rc ached by Polish locomotive engineers in the oor, ur.?, ti on of
hard octal slurry. His statements were confirmed by Krzemieniecki (fnu),
chief ci the engine service of the PKP. Coal slurry is usually added
to hard coal at a ratio of 25 percent but some locomotive engineers
have u_od up to 80 percent coal slurry. The PKP offered to arrange
test rides and interviews with Polish locomotive engineers for
German repesentatives.,
The delivery of a hard coal which does not form :.lag and has high
ine1tin:: port was requested. In addition to its caloric values, the
behavior of the coal on the crates is important. The occasionally
poor gt.ality of coal -slurry as well as of hard coal was criticized
and it was requested that hard coal deliveries be subjected to
quality specifications. A considerable increase of coal slurry imports
to oase the critical coal situation of the GDR was sub;g;ested by Melms.
It was pointed out that the consurnptio.1 of 4 to 5 types of coal was
impossible for the CDR. railroads since the repeated change between
hard ccal, briquettes and raw brown coal causes damages on fire-boxes
and leeks in pipings. Therefore a regular delivery of quality coal
had to be demanded and measures had to be taken to guarantee the supply
of ported/sya he Bws. 4
48,178 )
450 )
10,963 ) 2
3,233 )
92.571 )
4., 1.
24,186 )
22,787 ) 3
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=C(iru ent. Com,)ared to the last reported status of 15 January
for which 4 days' requirements were recorded, total coal stocks
remained about constant 4.,1 days' requirements on 2 February. 0
According to an unconfirmed information,
a govrernrmont order was issued to the effect that total coal stocks
of the railroads were not to exceed 4 days' requirements in view of
the over-all coal situation of the GDR. These coal stocks will be
insufficient to prevent critical situations of th3 railroads
similar to those which occurred around Christmas 1954,
2. Comment. Total coal stocks on 2 February amounted to 92,571
'tons ,BU . The hard coal proportion of toal coal stocks, whiff
11 January 1955 was increased 21 percent to 39 percent,
3. Comment. During the reported period, 89,332 tons (BU) of coal
were supplied and 96,460 tons (:3U) were consumed.
4. Comment. This conference was probably held in view of the
critical coal situation of the GDR railroads. The consumption of coal
slurry and raw brown coal b, locomotives is known.
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