RAILROADS: ELECTRIFICATION PLANS, MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009500560005-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 7, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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Iflacellaneous Information
Berlin electrification plans.
plans to clear the entire Berlin area o a s eaTn 50X1 -HUM
Kra eras ohm pot project
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plan exist..
11 have reached the stage of initial techr4cal discussions, but so far no written
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electrifiod with DC and the SBahn is to be stopped up from Coo v to 1,600 v
m motore rorl.ing in sequence to carry the load. Plans for this project
locomotive ::traffic by about 1961. The. Berlin "ring" is to be completely
'Capacity of Reiehsbahn-ot ed power stations.
The Cher.nitz power station is equipped pith the following installations;
1 stean turbine (SSW) of 2,000 kw
1 steam , turbine (Borsig) of 1,150 kw
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1 steam turbine (AEG) of 500 kw
1 steam turbine (B13C) of 500 Ica
Total 4s 45 0 kvt
Tho.Leipzig power station has a total installed capacity of 10,000 k .
The Chemnitz and. Leipzig power stations are. at present the only ones
operated under the control of the railroad in the DDRL
Re-electrification of the Uitteldcutschland #.rea,
a. In April 1951 detailed plans were prepared at the BJGD (Directorate
General of the :teichsbabn), Berlin, for the re-electrification of the
old electric railroad net which had formerly existed in the Latteldeutsch-
land axi.a (chief3y Saxony-Anhalt), but vhich had been completely die--
mantled by the Russians in 19ta5- 460
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b? The lines included in this project were Leipzig - Halle/Saale, Halle/Saale -
Magdeburg, Magdeburg - Dessau, Dessau - Bitterfeld, and Bitterfeld -
Leipzig.
c., The total cost estimated for this plan amounted to DII (East) 220 million.
d,., The following supplies were estimated to be required to carx r out this
plan: 1,000 t, copper, Co locomotives, 12,000 t. steel for masts (grade:
ST 52), and the re-.equi nt of the Ltuldenstein (E2/ 15) power station.
This plant was stated by the Russians to be in storage in the USSR, and
its return for this purpose was offered by them.
e,, It was estimated that the execution of this project would effect an
annual saving of 500,000 t, of brawn coal briquettes (i,e., approxxmately
2 million t. of raw lignite).
IPan of special equipment to Soviet Orbit countries.
In mid-June 195li two 100-t. Culeme er road vehicles (for ca .nc rail trucks
by road) were delivered to Albania on direct instructions of the SKK. Albanian
didvers visited the DDR to be trained to drive these vehicles. The RBGD
has been promised that the two vehicles will be returned after one year.
Coal reserves.
The total RBGD coal reserves on 1 August 1951 amounted to 1240,000 to of all
t;rpes,, The SKK ordered the RBGD in mid-July 1c>951 to limit such reserves. at
a: -l depots and stations to the amount normally recpsired by them for five
da ays.
6. L:.ne alterations.
?ork is at, present under way to re-lay the secrnd track on the line from
Saalfeld to Untercvellenborn, a distance of 6 kin.
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E_'.ectric locomotive construction.
Lokorotivbau Elektrotechniache Werke (VVB VIII) Ilennifsdorf has been engaged
in producing plans for a 3,000-v DC electric locomotive since early 1951.
The fiBGD has ordered 2C of these, the first one to Uc completed in sprang
1952 and the last one in 1955. Construction plans acre finished and approved
in July 1951.
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