REICHSBAHN OPERATIONAL REPORT FOR JULY 1948

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001801070010-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: September 21, 1948
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone)
SUBJECT Reiclisbahn Operational It
July 1948
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1s, Freight traffic in July is described as follows: "Traffic was
seriously disturbed by political events and by the backlog of
Russian trains at the Polish border and at the Baltic Sea ports.
As a result of limitation of traffic to and from the western zones
the number of loaded cars received was 900 per day less than in
the previous month. The new practice of avoiding stations in the
western sectors of Berlin had a very unfavorable effect. Rerouting
of traffic overburdened Berlin, Greifswald, and Cottbus. The
,acklog of trains at the Polish border reached a high of 197 on one
day. This is due not to increased loadings but to delayed acceptance
of the trains by Poland. In the ?econd half of the month in-
creased deliveries of flour from the Russian zone to the Russian
sec ,or of Berlin began. Coal deliveries to Switzerland were
renewed In mid-July but stopped on 26 July when the western zones
refused transit. Pit props and scrap intended for the western
zones were shipped to Poland instead. Cancellation of the credit
led to a temporary cessation of lumber shipments to Denmark."
2. Ca rl.o a di ng s
in. July totalled 428,281. Most important goods were:
Joa l
187,491
Building materials
33,030
Wood
31 , 622
Part carloads and
Cattle
3 ,037
express shipments
21,402
Grain & flour
59977
eichsbahn eqpt.
19,702
F tilizer?
1' t':y_?
20,360
Russian shipments
164466
116
66
Sugar
142
4
Other shipments
.
9
Potatoes
89
85
STATE
ARMY
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After 13 July shipments were rerouted to avoid western sector
stations in Berlin as follows:
a~. From B'aile to Berlin via Falkenberg and Sehdneweide.
b. From Halle to Schwerin and Greifswald via Magdeburg-
Fittenberge.
c. From T41agd burg to Berlin via Wittenberge-Neustrel:i.tz-
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de From Magdeburg to Greifsweld via -.%ittenbergeo
eo Halberstadt to Berlin via Falkenberg.
4, The report contains 13 paragraphs on construction and repair wcrtk
on. the right of way with no mention of the Helmstedt-Magdeburg line.
Constructior.did however include installation of a suitable office
and auxili :y equipment at the M&arienborn station for the RR police.
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