INFORMATION ON RAILROADS IN SOVIET ZONE GERMANY (SOURCE: ENCLOSURE TO SO DB 22557, FRENCH)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: November 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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YNFORNATION ON RAILROADS IN ~0VI! ZONE GERMAN!
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of Lht nher1~ urn tip ou1t~,ttd,
The in uitun dot ' rIp4d 4' quota or hw .pr j t , aen 1. r.pi shop
b a :u o d*rn*p i rr.ight oars, ngiud ng rr.i ht our ti .
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In ordo bO x'tach
i.:it quota it is oonoidored nooooory to wark rstx
days a woek, aoo to avoid interruptions in tho work oausod by irro~uiaritiea
in t ha ax'rival, oZ c re ,end by unequt i oc-nditiQns Of oxploi.tation. This
thoo
Ito 1d moan that 6 x 140, or A40 oars woi4rt bo handlod per woek. 1J?
cAr~diti,ens, 640 (uialp ears . i t O card could h? :opt in rcucs~vQ; the
ohfl1.lid inoluclQ iO() urn cii dunip or and 70 four-'.1e box sacs,
At prasent it iA ;Manned to const4ruot uuoh ropair dhops nt t attnwitz,
e eow, M k]MytIvk t, 2t..91,ino, !vordl.AVSk. Th*sro i0 ~1so tt teomo thnu ht
of h-lilydin~ ;such +. rihrp nt Mink tnd anethor at I~ol;jinn car luuk, fho
conat~ruck~ion or' such t1 shop in the soviet on of Oormany i'ls bon bnndcned
foz' the preunt, ~tnl the Gorman ~aF ahniciana ire to bo song to ustia to rr,r..
tioipato in the work thre.
Piews from tWichsbahn Directr~rate ;~irfurt
i tchcbahn i~:-arecto tJ 1rfurt is plsmnin~ to replace s many men as
pr~ssi'l? with women. lwcordin~ to the plan, 12,4X) cf the 3O,OOO posts
in tho i~eiehsb~hn Qireel~arrat~~ pro to ho filed by women.
"t w confcr'rfUe held on ?6 July 1949 in Leipi hhu condition of tho
f .il1bnd in D1strict L)irector tc Hallo ii dhacribed ns "c tc stroph: o'.
()n an tvortt e: ther'c is one "slow Mtretoh? vary t,hrue kiiomtcrs.
The lino between hlhauscn and "ilborhn,usen h1.9 been classified as
a aecondary road. 111.1 roads on which traffic is less than 20 trains per day
will be zc: classed as seeon.dary roads, and the crossing gatos will be re-
movnd from such lines,
'rhe bridge over the .terra near Derka a, d. torra his now been repaired.
locomotive.
On g 15 August 1949 the ~xx,p'irk for Roichsbahn Direct-orato Lrfubt
as follows; locomotives for p~scnur trains, i~4; locomotives for freiht
trains, l7w; locomotives in the tni rshalliin~ ys.rds, 71. This i.o an increase
of 30 porceit in comp!'~.rison with 1 January 1949, 'chore were niso 1 1.00
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a9senper cars. Since the freight care are not the Tteichsbahn
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Direotorate, their rnunber could not be determined.
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Pi recent project io the oonvoreiAf of 40 laao~notivea for p4eoen~er trains
to operate en brawn opal cost . The cQnveraton ie to hQ aoanplete t by the end
Qr D CCmhcr 19/+9. Alduo ari st~llaticn io to bA hn11t sit, 1'rrtt t to store
brown oo,i1 cost
'Phcro have been Qortain ahnrtUgee of Z3O matoria1s, espeoially of anetal
oabloe infi of white metal U M 10" ueesi for buohin~e zt t boaringe.
available
According to recent fiirootivoa, all/'-~~3" care (spaoir1 platrorm care for
the tr~nepopt of vehioloo) ;era to be concentr ~t?'i 1n Weis tr.
:ha.n a in 'boundaries pctweun ' eiohehchn Diroot',oratee Dreadon rind Erfurt
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Tho foliowir lino, which hava heen ai n ni=oterod by rtuiehsb hn pirectorate
Dresden were turned over to Zoiohsbahn Diroctorato Erfurt on 5 May 1949:
~iuonsohendorf - leida - 1~ueh1tht~ut1r (exclusive)
eulenroda, lower station - 8eu1enro~1a, upper otption
Gera, - 1Juenschendorf (new hourndary between the 1oichubahn Directoratus
on he r-era - 'reisehlit z line ne r kilometer point 11.250).
'. nschendorf - mdschutz (now boundary ne~.r kilom~t er point 21.5 0) ?
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~ferr4 - r~oussnit z (e~:clnsi.ve), new bnurndary at kilometer point 1.750.
fonneburg - GroesbbaUf$hnin.
All privately owned linos in r,eiehst~ahn ~irectora~te Erfurt have now be-
came "people-owned" with the exception of one 1O-ki1om?ter stretch from 11enigen-
taft through Mannshach to Oechsen, near the houtidhry lira. This line belongs
?to the Ha;emeier Oornpan7, Ltd., and is used to i,ri nsport basalt.
~'tork has been started throughout Reichsbahn Directorate i r~urt to replace
rails rails,
present heavy xuc~i~ on saeonde,ry lines with light xcvitcxii*.
The b,eiehsbahn budget provided 11 million Deutsche marks for construction
work in Reichsba.hn Directorate Erfurt. Aoeav.se of a shortage of funds, only
1.5 million Deutsche marks were xxbnsaa?k spent during the first half of 1949,
11l receipts of eichsbahn Directorate Erfurt have to he turned over to
The Reichsbahn has thus lost its financial t independence.
the Investment Dank.
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repair Train (April, 1949)
Two 3Q-air' tr'itrc for Use repair end ano G-ear gain f'or bride Kerr rvr a
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hsve been Dor feichobahn Direot,rnte Droeden, The car
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were built at the Dresden-?riedrir,hetoclt repair chop. Tho outfittin oi' the
interiors of the oars was arnarantiy r1on~a in t Arty to wQrkahc Thee
~ ~ o ro-
~+air tr(4ins are h~acIly needvcl beonaeQ of the preeant condition cf tho 1i e
atfeotiv+nl.y n ?~
Duoh trains were ueecl,/cluring th - war to r pair air-radd diui e,
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reiohsbahn Aobivitioe I during tho First Hair of 1949
weight car loadtngQ were 15,919, coniprrdd with 1~,61 f'or the acme
porir,d in 191:m, although cIux'ing bhc as nperiod the nwn wr of f rei ht ca
g ra
in operat ion incrua,?ea only from tF, 2a5 bo 70,526,
43,F million tons of freight wura carried, oomprrud wibh X7,9 mi11ion
for the entire yor,r 1945.
421,1 milli,c-n raueng3rs WUX1c carried, conparod with 922,5 -nillion for
the onbire year 1948,
Locomotives Fired ;ith Coat Dust
The inventor of bhie system io ~isns '1end1er of Otandal, The fuel, con-
eisting of l)rtquettes and brtquette rhipQ, is pl.~cod in a
/L'wtlJ,ll-shQpnd C~m-
partment i.n he tender from wh tch it falls into a mill located a rc irnt to
pp ly
half-way between bhe axles of the tender, The fuel is ke t ntovin n into the
mill by means of , . shaker operated by a i w `i mow, A co
mpressod air
turbine starts the operation of the mill and shaker,
Tho pu1Verizd fuel falls from the mill. into a water bath, Mout ~0 r.or-
cent of the nin.teria1' 2t floats, while the lacer pieces, constitutin about
20 percent, f.1 t o the bottom and are carried to a second mill. coup.1.F
d to
he first and c lied the tubular mill for moist fuel; xknxivxk.?sc here
? they
ix are rc~rou nd 1 An air-st es,m mixture i.,g blown into the bath c om iitme
ps. nth
and carries bhe coal dust from the surface of the water to the ;fire-bo
about 400 millimeters in diameter, x, which
is a compartment/lined with fireclay and equipped with spiral eddy y chambers,
The gain size of the dust i.g 0,06 millimeters na.thnum,
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:rhe tllhular t iU ao r QViv@~ a ~ yam- r ~ but it to unbar iow
preO pure wh rPa th; b1.~ot in the d rat mtU. i ur It r hi.~h pray urs, The
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,firw; ri11 ourfacu: ;, ocr
m tll'ooph'r; pow? ~,P()0 rn*~tric hf~roorn 'lor; fu', oc'nr unption, ' . 11 kilo.
:rj11~ of brown oort1 hrif uott o r'or kil,ot7 't(.r; tcmrc.ratur~ in firo~-ox, 17Or
1)O i k nr tZr! ter ilr~t fix io bio,r, to thrau h tho ~z ttt
burl ? rho f'u i lu io 1- ~~,m tnto to ?tro.4 e t ront ctw~ hurno T
iuoronion, nitini ttz rwi which hl4 onM, r t r,ho fiz'&'ox from tha fir t
irrt11. rho ttrhnx oont irn~ cno1tn tulao? for ctrou~atinn of
Theo typo or firing io inr1 t11ut on a f,nncMrd ~oroiL 2 loci -i~,f, =r~,
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