RAILROAD STATIONS AND CLASSIFICATION YARDS IN KLADNE AND DUBI

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: October 5, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seca. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law,
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DATE OF INFO.
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C1a1eat$ftoaticn Yards in
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SUBJECT Railroad Stations and Classification
Yards in Kladno and Dubi
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Reference is made to page 2, overlay on GSGS 4416, Sheet T-8, Scale
1:100,000, Kladno, on which, source identified the following points:
1. Railroad Station in Kladno. For further information see page
4, memory sketch of the railroad station and classification
yards in Eladno (N 50-09, E 14-06).
2. Railroad Station in Dubi. For further information see page
6, memory sketch of the railroad station and classification
yards in Dubi (N 50-10, E 14-09).
3. Single-track railroad. Construction was completed in 1953.
This railroad was constructed in order to transport scrap
metal from scrap meth pile to the United Steel Works,
National Enterprise.
4. Scrap metal pile. Scrap metal was collected there and out
into smaller pieces before being transported to the steel
works.
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Reference is made to page 4, memory sketch of the railroad station
and classification yards in Kladno, on which source identified the
following points:
1. Freight storehouse, single-story brick construction, 90 x 25
x 6 m., low gable roof covered with tarpaper.
2. Nadrazni trida (Railroad Station Boulevard), Partly asphalt,
partly cobblestone, 20 m. wide, good condition.
3. Vehicle parking area, partly cobblestone, partly gravel,
200 x 60 m.
4. Water supply point.
5. Station building, two-story, brink construction, 120 x 20 m.,
Sow gable root' co
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building was occupied by the railroad offices and waiting
rooms. Living quarters were located on the second floor.
Railroad equipment storehouse, single-story, brink construction,
60 x 10 x 5 m., low gable roof covered with tarpaper.
7. Classification yard, about 10 to 12 tracks. The two most
northern tracks were the main through-tra.oks. All the other
tracks were general purpose and olassifioation tracks, The
passenger trains utilized only the two main through-tracks.
There were about 25 trains in each direction in a 24-hour
period, The peak of traffic was between 0500 - 0700 hours
and 1400 - 1500 hours. Freight through-traffic was unknown
to source. He stated that on the average there were about
three freight trains at the station. Source believed about
35 freight trains were loaded and about 15 freight trains
unloaded dailyj 60% of the trains loaded at this station
carried coal, 30% steel, 10% wood, bricks, cables, eto. Of
the trains which were unloaded at the station, 609 were carry-
ing raw materials for the United Steel Works, National
Enterprise, 209 wood for mine supports, and'the remaining
20% were general merchandise. The mixed transports arriving
or leaving the station consisted of about 45 oarsj steel
transports consisted of about 35 oarsj and coal transports
consisted of about 60 oars. About 5% of the oars were four-
axle cars, and the rest were two-axle. The coal loaded at
this staton came Prof the coal mines Fierlingr I and II,
Nosek, and Zapotooky. Steel came from the United Steel
Works, National Enterprise, and cables from the Eladno Cable
Plant.2
8. Railroad upkeep shop, single story, brick construction, 40 x
15 x 5 m., low gable roof covered with tarpaper.
9? Wooden board fence, about two meters high.
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Libusin;tN"50-10,iE 14-03), The Zapotookytmine nwas
formerly the Praga Mine and was located in Dubi. The
Nosek Mine was located about 10 km. west of Kladno,
2. C me : This cable plant known an Koblo
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classification yards ing Dubi,on?which esource identified athetfollowing
points:
1. Brick wall, about 1.5 m. high and one kilometer long.
2. Storehouse, single-story wood construction, 300 x 12 z 4 m.,
low gable roof covered with tarpaper. The side facing the
railroad tracks had no wall. Source observed barrels being
stored there.
3. Cobblestone ramp, one kilometer long, three meters wide, and
one meter high.
4. Railroad switch control house, two-story, brick construction,
10 x 5 m., low gable roof covered with tarpaper. Source
believed the switches were operated manually.
5. Water supply point.
6. Freight storehouse, single-story brick construction, 80 x 10
x 4 m
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covered with tarpaper,
Two-story building of brick construction, 60 x 12 m., gable
roof covered with tile. Railroad offices and railroad
maintenance shop were located on the first floor. The second
floor was occupied by living quarters,
Single-story brick construction, attached to building (point 7),
10 x 3 m. Source believed offices were located there.
9. Classification yard, about seven tracks. The fifth track from
the north was the main through-track. About 18 passenger
trains daily in each direction. Some of them were Diesel
powered. There were, on the average, two or three freight
trains at the station at all times. There was almost no
through-freight traffic. About 15 freight trains were
assembled and departed from here daily: 49% of them carried
steel. 49% coal, and 2% cables and general merchandise. The
steel transport's consisted of 25 to 30 oars and the coal trans-
ports of about 50 oars. About 10 freight trains arrived daily
at the stations 70% of them brought raw materials for the United
Steel Works, National Enterprise, and 30% brought lumber and
construction materials. The peak of traffic was between 0700 -
1100 hours, About 5% of all railroad oars were four-axle
type. Most of the locomotives at this station belonged to
United Steel Works, National Enterprise.
10. Old storehouse, wood construction, 150 x 20 x 3.5 m., low
gable roof covered with tarpaper. This storehouse was not
utilized.
11. Dubi Railroad Station building, two-story brick construction,
40 x 20 in., gable roof covered with tile, Railroad offices
and waiting rooms were located on the first floor. The second
floor was occupied by living quarters.
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