RAILROAD BRIDGES IN SLOVAKIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004500130013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 13, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL I TELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NO.
0 FO AT O -PORT CD NO.
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
25X1A
DATE DISTR. 13 Liarch 1950
SUBJECT Railroad Bridges in 8lovalia NO~ OF PAGES .
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1, 'ilirail brad. zes on the r osi.ce-ilopxi: d-:L, .t)t .,. v.a, ikul e- s-Vrutky-.
6ilina line are being roinfo?eed 4,
2 4, The brid gee between 1/,osiee Lind Jyaak and between suoany (first
,,tr;tion oast of Vrutky) and Vrutky are wooden, trt.ke hi.ft strut-
taros. They are to be replaced by wassive hrid,;es. The rail
bride s between Tahanovea z zid k.ostol.,any (north of Losice) and
tv;,o re ii brill ;cs between VrutkyK. ilina behind the .try cna tunnel
have boon completed.
The construction of the new concrete double-track rail bridge
on tz Lipt., v.i;rcikulas-Lipt . Tepla-xuralova: ry-,V 'rutky line is pro-
messing slowly because of labor shortage
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a, The railroad line mentioned in the report originates at the
2. tnportant transloadin point of Ciorna (Czechoslovakian ,,. ovi et
.order) and is of special economic and military importance as it
Is the only sT transverse route of Slovakia
b, r_+he bri.d;es on this line, almost all of which were demolished
Turing the war, were first rebuilt as temporary structures, These
are now to be replaced by armament bridCeu ~ .,.fter completion of
.:hi.-5 project this line w,il.l probably reain its previous train
f dene two of 36 pairs of trains per day. although the two lone;, Ko rice-
.li.y sak-Poprad '.nd the "`Jychothia-?V'r utky sections are still.
track-,,
c~ The v'ychodna-Vru4ky line is scheduled to be double-track,
~'orr this reason the brid .;es in this section will have two tracks
(see p-.ra 3).
cccurnent is hereby regradc:c tc
o 16 October i 78 from tlhe
of Central Inte`fl ge e to t# j
the United States.
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