RAILROAD NET BY-PASSING BERLIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900070013-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2001
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT CD NO.
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COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone) DATE DISTR.
SUBJECT Railroad Net By-passing Berlin NO. OF PACES
25X1 C
PLACE
ACQUIRED
DATE OF
INFO.
NO. OF ENCLS.
(LISTED BELOW)
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
1o `."fork is contini?i_ng n the dev'elop'::ent of a r;iil':'`?i y ref aroi nc
Berlin that is to b, cotnVleteely independent of any lines and
facilities within the Western Sectors of the city, In accord-
ance with an order issued in SeotE- !ber of by General.
Kriraschnin 9 Chief of the former SMA TransrorRt Uivi ion. It 1 r
intended to assure that the entire Soviet Zone rei.wwa;,rys
will remain unaffected by nn.r act:ton which could he taken by,.
the ?Western Allies r ` est Berlin German officini.s or by a
strike of Test Berl."' n workers . The Program to i.mr.ie-lent tie,. e
Deans for skirting '':e s t Berlin is foll+~ Is Y
a. Corlnleti on of the frei ?rh1t otter ring from C-rtanienturg
to Berlin-Kar w
Double-tracking; of the stretch from Belzig to WieFe her?g
(Mark) on the line Berlin.D;ssau, (12.6 km`m
thrcugh Brand nburg, Ral,henc; , nrPustac t/Dor-e, find
more. extensive use will relieve the strain on lines
running thro)uh Berlin.
Staedtebahn, a nor?th_.routh r:-riv;,ate railway eegr.:i ^ez i
c. Shifting r:iors of the nor'-h--;oath trr..fs Ic, cr? gins U~.ng; in
the Halle,, Erfurt an Dresden areas bound for the
Mecklenburg reFiori and the l:.al tic Sea rorts, frog wines
r?uinr.ing throuL;h Berl3.r: to, tla(, forner Elr?aride:~~. sur?giseh
d a Increasing the canacit3r of "'he line L w rther rib 1e zri ri
Rethenow,
e. Rer,oving the 73er.lin ".'eat Sector freight transfer -rtio-'nt
from the Anhal:.ter, Ber' in-Mcabi t and Charlottenbu.rg
terminals to the Seddin :'.`ustermar^k and Wuhlholde
stations in East Berlins.
Work on the double-tracking of the line Berlin-Hr-1be-I.Pbberiau