RAILROAD LINES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005300550009-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2006
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 26, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY Czochootovukia
SUBJECT Railroad Lies
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a. Zilin Vrutky. This line is double-tracked, with wooden sleepers laid on
a bad of broken atones. In the Vrutl station, the sleepers are metal.
b. Vrutky-.Divial y From Vrutlcy onward, the line is singly -tracked, with
wooden sleepers on a bed of broken stones. 'Between Turciansky svaty 11artin
and Divialsy, there are two temporary wooden bridges and two large tunnels.
Diviaky Zvolen. Between Tiorni. Stubm and Kremnica, there are three tunnels
Past Kremnica in another tunnel ithich was out through unfirm ground havinn a
tendency to sink; it became necessary, therefore, to build large rei.nforce-
ments to protect the line. Trains travel through this tunnel very slowly.
Between formal Dubrava and Zvolen, there are two bridges over the Rron River.
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1. Zllina-Zvolen-Lenartov line
d. Zvolen-Lucenec. Zvolen is the.j".nction for the Banska Bystrica line and
has a marshalling yard, engine sheds and workshops. Betti"n Zvolen and
Viglas there are a number of small bridges and tunnels, and bKrivan,
there is another tunnel. Lucenec is the junction for the lines coming;
from Rungary and from Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
e. Lucenee--Lenar ov. Connecting these two places are two large temporary
wooden bridges and a number of small ones.
2. Lenartov-Plesivec 1 ine. There is one large bridge over the S Jana River.
3. Zvolen-Banska Bystrica-U?largecary-Kosice line. This line is single traclaad through
oitt, with =oden sleepers on a bad of broken stones. Banska Bystrica is the junc-
tion for the line from Diviaky and has engine sheds. On the line between Banaka
BBstrics and Cervena .Skala are two large metal bridges over the TIron fiver, Be-
tween Cexvena .Eels and Ladova Jaslcyna Is a tunnel which ascends in three spirals
before it ends just before Ladova Jaskyna. Between Ladova Jaskyna and Mnisek
there is a wooden bridge over the Hnilec River, and the line runs along a cut
in the side of the mountains. Between 11niaek and rTargocsny there is a wooden
bridge over the IInilec River.
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Diviaky-Banska Bystrica 1.ine. This is a branch lane only; it, is sinrle?.
tracked, =.4th wooden sleepers, and it consists of a succession of tunnels
and bridges throughout its entire ]enppth.
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