MISCELLANEOUS RAILROAD INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005800490003-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 22, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Recently renarat-ions trains ''rom Halle and Gflsten have been
routed through Berlin-Temnelbof, notwithstanding orders to use
only the freight outer ring. The burden on the single-track
ring is frequently so heavy that it becomes necessary to run
rough Tempelhof or typass the city entirely on a very wide
rerouting. The trains sent through Tempellsof consist mostly
oI sealed cars carrying cement lime, sugar, textiles and
crated machines. They are routed then via Pankow, Pasewalk
and Rostock for sea shipment to Russia. Occasionally trains
hauling alcohol pass thro,,gh Temrelhof en route via Brest to
Russia.
2. Regular shipments of lignite briquettes are made from the DDR
to Sweden. These go by rail to Stettin. The shipments are
in accordance with a t:,7ade agreement between the Soviet Union
aqd Sweden.
j, The following 21st of Reichsbahn nrorerties and installations
In the Vest Sectors of Berlin are guarded by three shifts of
railway police in the strength indicated. Police carry either
Carbines or pistols.
Number of Police Pr ,Shift
S-Bahn Betriebswerk Papestrasse 1 to 6
Treptower alterbehnhof 6
Bahnhof Rermannstrasse
Anhalter Bahnhof 6
RBD Schdneberger Ufer 1 to 6
Bahnhof Wannsee, including
Betriebswerk 1 to 6
Gdrlitzer Bahnhof I. to 3
Bahnhof 7riesterweg 12
Bahnhof Steglitz 1
Bahnhof Zehlendorf 2 to 4
Bahnhof Grunewald, including
Betriebswerk and Ausbesserungswerk 1 to 12
.Bahnhof Spandau-Test 2 to 6
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Bahnhof Westend
Bahnhof Zoo
Bahnhof Charlottenburg, including
Fernmeldemeisterei
Lehrter Bahnhof
Bahnhof Moabit
,ctrber of rolice per Shift
1 to 6
to 6
to 5
1 to 2
1 to 3
4. All cars loaded with renarntions from the area of RBD Berlin
are brought to the Berlin-Rummelsburg marshalling yards, to be
made un into renaretions trains. These trains lenve the DDR
at Frankfurt/Oder. To this roint they are .accompaned by a
squad of six Volksnolizei, From Frankfurt/Oder eastward, train
hauling important reparations goods are nrotected by Soviet
soldiers. Some few nroceed without any nrotection. Reparations
trains arriving within the area of RBD Berlin already made un ?
are routed over the yards at Bahnhof-B 10 in Lichtenberg and
then proceed to the border crossing point of Ktstrin for further
transit to Russia. RBD Berlin has a daily quota of 15 repara-
tions trains ner day lo dispatch to the border. A Soviet office
within the RBD Berlin assigns transnort and rriority numbers
to all reparations trains.
In accordance with the DLR Law for the Protection of Internal
Trade, freight trains may not run through the freight yards of
either West or East Berlin. This nieces a heavy strain on the
freight outer ring and means that trains are required to run
on the average from 80 to 100 additional-kilometers. It
frequently results in waybills' being separated from shirments
and handling delays of from 12 to 14 days are not uncommon.
6. Household goods and excess baggage of Russian officers and
soldiers returning to BlASSib are loaded on Monders, Wednesdays
and Fridays at the SchlesischerBahnhof and Bahnhof Wildpark in
the SovietSector of Berlin and the Soviet Zone near Potsdam
resnectively. On these days from seven to ten box cars averaging
ten tons of goods each are loaded. Approximately 300 tons ner
week are shipped out. Around the middle of June, General Kotikow
alone had two cars loaded with his own personal effects, while
It. Col. Popoff, until recently liaison officer to Feichsbahnamt 1
of RBD Berlin, shinned one and one-half cars.
7. Construction work in the area of RBD Berlin had by 30 June 1950
been completed to only 19.7 percent of plan.
80 During the first quarter of 1950 the income of the Reichsbahn
had fallen off to the amount of DM-41,900,000. This was 10.63
perceat under the nlanned quota.
9. It is nlanned to have the Basanetz for the Reichsbahn in the
entire DDR in full operation by the end of 1951. The central
for the system is located in the main headquarters building of
the Reichsbahn.
10, The conditions of the new wage contract with employees of the
Reichsbahn, provide for general ray reductions, general reduc-
tion in allowed annual leave, reduction of the official notice
of dismissal period from six months for employees of over ten
years standing to a period of fourweeks for everyone, discon-
tinuance of arbitration over points of difference between
emrloyer and employee.
11. The main stations in Potsdam, Prenzlnu, Dessnu, Magdeburgj and
the Schlesicher Bahnhof in Berlin are acheduled to be fully
restored during the years of 1950 and 1951. The track capacity
of the stations in Pritzwalk and in Rostock is to be expanded
to accomodate heavier traffic,
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- 12. During 190 and 1951 further bridge building and bridge rerairs
are contemrlated on the following lines: Bodenbach to Dresden.,
Neukirch/Lausitz-Test to Bischofswerdal reissenfels to Bebra.
Aditional line imrrovements rlanned for the years 1950 and
include double-tracking on the following stretches: Aschersleben
to Wistent Niederschlema to Wilkau-Hasslau, Reitwein to Ktstrin-
Metz.
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