TRANSLOADING POINTS AT BREST-LITOVSK

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• Publication Date: February 13, 1952
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COUNTRY U. sR (Lieloraisian 3310
SUBJECT Transloadinz Foints at 3rest-Litovsk
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Boost Litovsk on the TOroo-a-T.7oscov trunk lino woo the lorrost railroad.
junction and tranzloodino point on. tho :001isbo-Soviet border., The oony rail-
'road statioal in Brest Litovsk wero providod rith extensive trackaos so
that a cooprohensive survoy VMS difficult to datain, oartictlarTy for TOS
who Ond nooccess to retlrood pions, (1) Eowever, seporato tranoloadinT7 .- ?
points existino in tJre oroa inoludedtOo Tont. 7isiinoOd Station o: lone with
a cool 1 oad1no ramp:, too O'entral !?allroad Station:1 the Last 7,allrood Station
provided. witO a. special transloodin ra%p; Lo ll or South Railroad
Station and the Lahovets and ilakhatko ajiroad Stations,
a,. The bred t. Litovsk Tost aailroad stotion moo a norm' pa000nocr freight
station., The ncoal loodino ramp on. the south side oxtonded from a- -
. point about 2,,5 km oast of the ? railroad bride-aoroso thc Bug .River at
tno i'olish,Soviet frontier to the Central Station. ?of Eros t Litovsk(2)
The coal ramp was used exclusively for the tramloadint of coal, The
coal londino ramp availablo vas about 10 meers hi oh, 7,5 meter; widoi
. ond built of heavy loEs. It vms loaf onouoh for 25 two-axle standard-
ooure railroad c,n7rs,,' ? Tho ramp had a olontino avoroach with ..ono stand-
ard-Eauose track, ? The Onterior of too ramp 17110 provided tith tooden.
wails lined with shoot -'eta] so that tao loroo coal in ?oii-o formed,.
'-.7oon the railrond cars standino on the ramp wore oporec'. the coal. dropped
tiorquoh spaces betoson Lhe Ciankino of the ramp into the coal bins, The
coal -renainin,:' in tho-railroO cars or spille6 onto theoromp was shovoiled
into the con" bins, Tho biro hod. a otoraoe capacity of ot least 60 .
standard-oauce corloodo. Slide doors were mounted at the heed *41113 of
the ramp, Since those doors 'wore at the lowest points of the oomp? the .
cool dropped out whon-he Coort 1:70P0 ?nano( onto Gernan made conveyor
bolts which trenspocted it ovar a distance .of ahout .:Ileters. to the
railroad cars.. Varaliel to each side of the rar4o, at a
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distance of about- 10 meters fron it, was a 5ovict-,rau7e trac-,7, (3) Up to
sunLer of 19149 coal handed therc i!:cludel hard coal,. industriol Coal,
nut coal, coal ciust, Lriquettee.. All this ceal cane froa Upper bilopia.,,
at the coal rari, --;11.s done in three shifts of ciLht hours each, Fifty
carloads of from 15 to 25 tons titre transloaded in one shift, The five Ger-
man cranes available at the tranaoadic.; point in 1948/1949 handled_ an
additional two with a total of aproximately 100 cars per day. On
the average, transiocdinc? was done on 20 days of each month, rrom this it
C35. he inferred that about La0,000 tons of coal were transioaided at this
station per month. Forty .non were assi.guee to each. shift at the ranp, The -
trnnsloadiTr: of 25 or-:rs. into the Coal bins took about hours, Delays ?
occurred when the bifs wore already full or when there were not enourh Soviet-
gauLe railroad cars available? In 1943/1949, the station area was complete-
ly cordonned off by:oviet militia, (4)
b, The. I:rest Litovsk Central -,ailroad Station on the Tarsaw-Lan&:--4.7oscow trunk
line had a tranoloadinL ramp about 500 meters low-, where only tr000 trains
wre transioaced.
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The hast 'taliroad Station east of the dentral :Adiroad tt1on s also on
the -:5arsaw4:oseov: trunk lino, his station had a romp 500 meters lonu, as
well as a 1000-cets tranioadini- ranp,located r:but 1 Ion to the at for
troops, Yost 0: the returninr: (lemon TZs mer. transioaded there, They
observed. the trariLloodin of tank' and artillery units as well as of motor .
vehicles? The tronsloadin of -one troop-trannport with vehicles took about
three hours., Tht standard-rav-e track terniatcd at the ramp cast of the
Last Hailroad jtation,
oleski (LkiutL) iailro. Aation Tins directly southeast of the Central nail-
rend. station on the :rest Litolsk?-Yovel-nev mainline. :he trackage of the
Central aailrond Citation and thatof--thic Poleski Railroad 3t,Llon were con-
ticous,. The latter station .ad. 10 tracks and a ramp 600 meters long, with
a standard-[aw'e track on 'one 31645 sic.. a :.oviet-euco track on the other.(5)
.For'nierly used for frelht fror. Ger :On to the this railroad station
was no exclusively- used for the transloadLiv: of troops,
The :'.'akhovets-.-Voyenni.transIoodinu point was about 2 hn south .of the Central
hailroad Statien, tA's iAntion two shandard-ra.uce and one noviet-nuLe
track led to the ate talirood Station Where they branched-out into
fouf standard-cau.o and four ::;oviet-i_Tauf..e tracks, (6) At the southern edge
of the area there wan J stone loading ramp aPout 500 meters lour between a
standard-gauge ane 0,)vid*auue track.. Up to 13 June 1949 a Denac: grab
crane .with a lininacity of to 10 tont',h een avaiLita.e at this
ramp. In 1945/19 6 t-s crane vfa,13 on caterpillar tracks.. - Howevor, it was
fouilL out that the load, rams ooeld not stand the weight of ho crane and.
so the crane was nat,e itationn?:?,.? ? To the earth a otandard-aw:e :2nd 5
6evet-raue track Vie. 0 brided by a Tantry crane with a. liftinL capacity ?
of 75 tons, This craao mounted on rails was able to move ot;or-th( entire
station area. In 1.7 the crtn.?wich. hat'. boon previously operated ti:j hand
was electrified,. ',:rantum ore was Irausloaded for the first time i early
n"1:4 19143. The Urains were Art e Lthe iI,script;on'Uranirm Ore"in German
and iiussinn. The trassloadin: of such a train lasted- about 12 hours, Pot-
ash, graphite boop with undetermined loads, tank en-Llues? trucks and.
sedans in addition to icrap nd :;refabricated houses were oleo transloadod?
The translondirv o: 2.;Ap ?tool: 0 to. 10 hours, or the 2refatricated -houses
about four hours?. if nocesary work was (One i a three sifts-
Thi:- 1.9.akhatha s;tation was built- by- r:(2,rmr: after ::orie Mr IT
and. was used e-clnsi.v1,7 for the ti-cs lo c r c eapture
lachinery, It wsI I c c:tweet or 41 nC Lta- 77,rest Litovsk airfields, kn
north of th,F, Station and ex-Lew:Ica 5 .to 7 from north to
sOuth -and. 2 to WItl) che c- Soviet-.
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tl,on oi? the 100 to 1;20 wooCe siera-s shcdd, allecedly for thh.storae ?
of7c 1aL.Le. rinhiher7 (7) TanTcz,neto.-1-
? rtea structures for aircrrft 7iar.7rrr? naritine htLies, tex-
. files of every deseription..uniforr cloth, mils enc. tics, siici
equipTient, household coods,?furniture, tire pieces,. radio sets, elec-
tric buis, surjcsl 1nstrur-1(.1 medicaments, suar, leather,
otc,, nre ailcEe(17.7 tren.sloaded. Iiism.entled. machinery .6 ..served
the machine of the ilnehhamt.r iron tlorhsn 3iletia, of
te Steel librim in Prendenur,c; the FAe.,:lons- and Ealske Firm. in 12Jerlin
the ::rawar Ail;int in La7deburc in. ()dation to the r-cohLiery of the
?l'hwarz.kopf, ntsch. Lorsic and -anderer Fins TEe trhnslondin was
done either by- orancs or I:7 tLan- In the latter case Llenks were .
?lsie from i:J). rn.endard-rauce to the C;oviet-auce core, Goods' unload-
ed narnelly wcre fir t gtodif.. in t1-4 storace sheds "ecfcre heinc for-
rded to the 7:1(v.k war. done in three shifts,includinc Sundays
shd holidays, unleadinc detail of 250 montranslosded one or tas
t.)ins daily, "AYE entire ire- was surrounded by barbed.-
)tre lone nlon which severl wateh towers were erected,
o,.tarT adninrtration,
Up to the surnxi of 190, 7.ase Gormand Uendquarters 3606,
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i.e Frcet Litovsk. (8) The headquarter: includerl: lot Get on: Cn)he
so..eticn, headed by Lieutenant Ocaouel Vasilyev (fhu),
770 non, 3C SerJion: r,oading by hard, hooded by Cart)ta_n
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?ation., The 2d. bection could net. 1..e ic":entl_Eted-
b, Up to y 19149 stationary ilsta,ations- for the ceolversion elf railroad
onrs from etandard to Smietr,u...c anC vice versa rofc not observed
? at any of the i2rest Litmrsk railroa stattons. In the sumier of 1943
it vas observed that 20 neu Getnn.? e.press coaches were converted -to-
:::?,oviet Lance by Soviot workers iw five- days.. The coaches were jacked
put.en trestles, and. the-stardard-cauEo a;71es were replaced by
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GaT(..c PU r ne maIns trens -sh5:T,ed in Brest :,,itovsk in a 24-hour
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