KUESTRIN-GERDAUN RAILROAD LINE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007800090008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 16, 2013
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 24, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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SUBJECT Kuestrin-xerdauen Railroad Line
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train loaded iith Soviet transit goods and operating from 'cues-trip (0 53/
6-5) rc .or'lauen (Z,elez,nodoroznaja) (11 5SAT 22) via Krell?, () 52/1,'; 60),
Schneideiluehl (P 54/3.1 94) ? Thorn (Q 511.1J 37), Deutsch-Dylau (:aawa)
51VE 04), ;1.11ens Loin ( z tyn.) (R SIVE 66) arid F>lorschen (Korsze)
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I. The Jorman customs :inspection took Place inuestrin-Kietz while the Polish
i.?ustoms inspection was made in Kuesiyfin-reuz;tadt, F.7] The reilroad line
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three steel brides whch are built on concreto picrs, i,e,,tie Vorflut
111,i4r,!:0 Odor hiver 3ride and
'.;arthe River Dridge. There is no speed limit on the Vorflut Dridge or on
the across ths -;arthe River, but there is a speed limit of 20 krith
on the Oder River Brid3c.
2. The bridge across the Vistula River near Thorn on the section Kuestriri-
Yeustadt--.0sterode -(Q 54/E 24) was the only section with a speed 1:iit,(3)
This bridcc, which is about 11 km long, is a steel structure with ,-.c,n-
crete piers and carries one track.. The snood limit for the bride has
been set at, 30 km/h, The de.nolished section of the bridge, whinh formerly
carrid.the second track, is being reconstructed? Two spans are inc:om-
plete. (4)
3. i'rom Osterode to Kerschon, the line is single-track, (5) from Korschen
as far as the soviet frontier it is double-track, (6) and frona the
frontier to ilnrdaucn it is sjngle-track, (5)
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11 The ::ordaden railroad station has two standard-gauge tracks and four
sidings, adequate fur trains with a :aaxiffull-, of 120 a::3..ec,. In Gerdauill?
the loeomoti,rez-3 operated by _;erman psal.sonn.'a are detached and the trains
are taken over by Soviet pensonnel. The 1.17=2:::::721:::t.li:::::
standard alge, (7)
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The oalin cops on Lie line are Lllostrin-T:eusta2t, Lan(2.,;',;ercif
?,artlio5 rreuz Johnoido:mehl, :romberc: 5V; 1.4),
Thorr-ockro, :,cutsch-2vlau, Zilonstein in Korschen. tin
,:orda;en railroad station there is a ccal dump of anTx,oxi-
matel'i W tons which Lc drum inon lyr the arlan oo
in cse of oricronc,T.
dna or iOta-alne are dispateled froil there in licth
diroeti.ons dailic (9)
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According to tie official Soviet time table of 14 M7 1950 this line
Is double-traer only as far as Deutschlaui while the 40-km stretoh
amfi.r as Ostepode is recorded as being singloateadk. However, there
is r oasib11ity that the diemantled second track of this section has
bee, rebuilt 5,A the meantime.
TP!_s bridge le actually 90 meters long.
(5) fiat; le conlirmed by the official Soviet time table.
(6) Until new lt has been believed that this sectio is still oingl trez.
The ;Soviet point of transloadfmg is Insterburg. It see that for security
reasons the trains oporatinfx between Gerdauen and Inaterburg axe ran by
Soviet personnel.
(9) A total of four scheduled tzains operate daily fftm Gerdauen in both
directions.
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