TRANSPTATION DURING THE FIRST HALF OF 1948

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• Publication Date: September 1, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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ere p~~tirtly final and partly provisional, In the r
'~;r`'~ _ f i_ at months, 184
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minion persons were carried gis 4 percent in excess of th
e planned .
168 million, and 47,7 percent of the total ~~1a,n for the
year. Since
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passenger traffic is alvrays lighter in the first half than in the
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' second half of the year it ~ r a,r ~~ry~ ~
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. passent~~er trr~.ffic will not only completed ~.lt will be slight/ exceeds
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the passenger traffic in the fiz~st half of 1943 wa
s 1.05 percent of the
passenger traffic for the same period of 1947 or sli~htl 1e
t~ y s s than the
planned 106 percent, 'a
~1he numuer of passenger.-kilometers co~tpleted was 8 815 mil i
, 1 on or 98, 3
percent of the plan for tree year and 9rl er
p cent of passenger-kilometers
completed for the same period i:~~ 194''1 which '
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planned 96 p~rcerit, ~
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The increasEd co.r 1o~rciirz~rc ~r, ry
117 fr~?l_~ar~~ tr~fr i~ wre ~,?~r~ ~;~7 wr of lll~nt? Q?'1 ~
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Given below are figures sho~~di~:~,~ n�tuber of cars lo,~.ded '
xrr the first sat
c,orasecut ive months of 1948 e.nd 1947 and the p' rcenta~;e of irlcre~~ se ~
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1948 470 439 504 5:24 ~ n ~
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1947 324 260
3.5 379 406. 410 2,124 @~
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Freight carried in the first hat f of 19 I .
f~ 48 was 51,363 thousand tons II
or 55 percent of the 1
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ca:�rl.ed daring the same period in 1947 it ~.s an l,ncrease or"
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period This is easily explained since the freight carried included lees
coal which has a greater weight per car~r~.oad.
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a, considers:-b1e ~ increase Was secured 1Q4~ ~
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The number of ton//-kilometers ~ is x3,891 million, or 49
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percent of the ~ "plan and an increase of 40 percent over the
~ same period in 1947. It is expected that the total plan for the
year will be completed.
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.An increase of 21 percent in frei;;ht carried was foreseen according
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to the financial and economic plan for 1948, Already in the first half
of the year the increase is 4Q percent or much greater than estimated.
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fence, if ~ ,judg~~6y the results of the first half of 1~~48, we
find. that passenger traffic was accurately estimated in the final
draft of the financial and economic plan as rri~tified by tie Se~jm~but
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frei ht traffic Vans s1i i1t1 unde ~eatima.ted. ~.Of .eo~:r~.e~l the total
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assenger traffic and freight traffic asp a. whole we can expect ~
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favorable completion of the plan for transportation,
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ISovember showed peak loadin~~s for 194'7 ~ 530 thousand cars; this
f igux$ was almost reached in June _ 5~4 thousand cars. A rnuch higher
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level can be expected in the fall months when root crops are. being
transported. As t~ze number of cars and locomotives has not
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noticeabl ncre~~ great difficulties would 'ae enco~~ntered in this ~
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f field ~ i~ it wa~~a n;�t f yr the increased efficiency of PKP; ~
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in June 1947~,it eras 9 days 3 hours. average run increased tc~ 5~:8
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carried by a freight car increased from 458'~~t~~--~a �'483 tons Average r
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kilometers per ho~~z; average speed of a passenger train increased from
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The summer months were favorable anti the w n er
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~�nths proved more difficult.
~;asions wort~:y of note vr4~s the opening of ~
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T l]/~~~"~ Kr ica line which not only 4f�
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the re'uui.lt tunnel on the Tarnow 1'~oti~r.
roved freight
with this health resort but also imp
improved communicat~.on ~
Ru,~nia., Thanks to the reconstruction of bridges,
traffic with
and Gdansk through Dzialdow~~ ~
~ communication w,..a opened b�tween i~t~�~~� 1
d travel time between the capital
Tialbork~ sh~ening the distance an
' irect route from Poland to Sweden was opened ~
an~L the Gdansl~ reg~ cn. A d
at whic~~ point the distance by
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hro ~h the p4.rt on the Oder (Szczecin)
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The sumr.1er schedule brought not only accelera e
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asse~igel tY'c+.ln Car'3
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assenger
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~ raffic increased pro� ~rtionately.
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runs was about .3 p
~P did not change noticeably except
The employment status of tine P
d seasonally in the reconstruction and maintenance
for wore crews employe
. ~s etc. Try Y~~ne the number employed was
of tracks, bridges, bu ~.ld~.n:, ~ r
about 5OO workers of private railroads E�rhich
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'have recently been nationalized. ~ ,
` ~ ..~,~}-er arp also steadily increasing.
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cial condition of PKl' in the first half of 1;;48 a:,pears ~
The f inen ,
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favorable. ,t~rperat~.
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� ~ evenue amounted to 32."1 billion zlotys and .
of 8, 6 billa.on ,zlotys. ~,he r
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' expenditiures X4,1 b~ll~.on zl y
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- ~ ~ main ~ eir~ creased turnover d,uri the bui],din sea on 'the
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development~of investment and other factors railway admin-
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9~ In the division of vehicular raa,ds, the progress in the rebuilding
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and rnaintenarlce of roads should x,eceive mention. The fo~.lowin
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eriu,rieration of work completed in 1948 gi~res a characteristic pictu~~e oi'
this progress.
In^the first half of 1948 4G0 meters of steel bridges, 500 meters
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of "on rete brid};e 1080 meters of semi', -'~!1. xxd
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wooden bridges were completed. Almost 25 million square meters of road
resur~a,ced, 3 million square meters of rose surface patched.
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Almost 50.
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I~Iention shou~.d also be made of the marked increase in the registered
motor cars during the period from December 194`7 to June 1948.
Luring the period reported a basis of ca operation wds established
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a.1 between rai~.w Frei n~t carriers and motor tru.c. carriers, in genera ,
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,s,+` but xn p~.,rticular between PIMP and P As a result summer sc eduls of
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both carriers w~er ~
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lines in localities where traffic is sa small~as to make operation of
PKP railway lines highly unprofitable.
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At the end of theseason on the water>~ays duri~~ which s-
corisstruction
r~aterials and equipment were being prepared for the ~ 4 season, actual
worl~ was b e~un ~ _ _ ' ' ~~~~~~l~f~o~~
Oost of Construction ~dork for First Half of 1~~8
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rralntenance of streams
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for
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- ~ 16 ~ 000 ~~,r!~ 6, 040
passengers carried
r 8 8'75, 000 131, 000
passenger-kilometers '
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freight curried ~to~
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