1. TRAFFIC OPERATIONS, LAIPIN-CHENNANKUAN RAILWAY 2. CONSTRUCTION OF TUNNEL, CHENNANKUAN-PINGHSIANG

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 29, 2001
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 17, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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DATE DISTR. 17 April 1952
1. Traffic Operations, Laipin-Chennankuan Railway NO. OF PAGES 2
2. Construction of Tunnel, Chennankuan-Pinghsiang
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There are 8 major stations and 27 small stations on the railway between Laipin
and Chennankuan. The eight major stations are at Ilaipin, Litang (109-06, 23-11),
Liuching (i ), Nanning, Funan (107-54, 22-37), Chungshan (107-33, 22-27),
Ningming (107-O7, 22-09), and Pinghq.o.ng (106-44, 22-06), Since the inauguration
of traffic between Laipin and Pinghsiang on 8 November 1951, one train, alternately
a freight and a passenger train, runs as far as Pinghsiang daily.
Traffic has not been inaugurated between Pinghsiang and Chennankuan, a distance of
25 kilometers. The reasons for this are:
a. One tunnel 350 meters long has not been completed.
b. Intra-China traffic normally goes only as far as Pinghsiang, and service to
Chennankuan is required only for military transport.
c. The rail junction on the Sino-Vietnam border has not been worked out. Standard
rails are used within Kwangsi, while existing rails in Vietnam are light rails41-
The amount of rolling stock on the Laipin Chennankuan Railway has increased greatly
since the establishment of a sub-office of the 1unan-Kwangsi Railway at Nanning.
The sub-office now controls 13 locomotives,, 54 passenger cars, 24 x 15-ton freight
cars, 7 x 20-ton freight cars, 20 x 30-ton freight cars, and 23 x 40-ton freight
cars.
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4. The last station on the Iaipin-Chennankuan Railway is Tawankung, three kilometers
south of Pinghsiang. A combined passenger and freight train runs daily in each
direction between Laipin and Pinghaiang. Passenger cars terminate at Pinghsiang,
but freight cars go on to Tawankung.
5. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam has., established a transportation office at
Tawankung, and controls warehouses converted from over 30 private homes on the
left side of Tawankung Station.
6. In early March the Kwangsi Military District ordered the 45 and 52 Armies stationed
along the Vietnam-Kwangsi border each to assign 2,000 men for work on the
construction of the railway tunnel between Chennankuan and Pinghsiang. Five
hundred men each from two battalions of the Kwangsi Military District in 25X1A
C`Yiungshan have also been detailed to the task.
1. Comment. According to information available the
me Per gauge railway from Dong Dong has been restored to a point about one-
fourth of a mile southwest of Chennankuan, where the change over point will
be located. Large quantities of building supplies are being concentrated at
this point in readiness for the connection of the two railways.
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