RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00418R001200010002-1
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 27, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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ln On 17 July 1955, earth work and deforestation had beenn on the construclnion
.site on the eastern shore of the Lake Templin. Part of the materia:i.
needed to fill, the dam is being dredged from the lake, A 3ocation
sketch made by the design office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn indicated
that the railroad line will join the line to Grossbeeren near Saarmund,
cross the WiIdpark Jueterbog line west of the Lake Templin and join
both the Potsdam - Brandenburg line and the Wildpark - Nauen line, New
railroad stations are to be, built at the crossing noint of the 7ildpark
Jueterbog line and in Golm, Lake Templin will be crossed by a dam,
A bridge about 210 meters long will be construoted near the western
shore of the Templin Lake, The railroad line is being constructed as a
donble-track line. It was learned that the construction work was executed
hy the Bau-Union Potsdam and Ingonieurtiefbau Brandenburg,
2. Construction work for the new bridge across Lake Templin of1the '.aarmund,
Calm line started during the week from 14 to 20 July 1955.
The Aussenring alongside the ::uhlheide shunting station is to be
straightened and constructed double-4rack in 1956.2
4. It was rumored that the new passage in Sassnitz was built for a ne*
ferry boat constructed in Sweden which is wider than the previous ferry
and is able to carry more freight cars)
5, From 6 to 19 July 1955, the one track planned for that section of the
last connecting section of the Outer Freight Ring between Wustermark -
Ort and Brieselang was being transferred. It4was not known when the
transfer of the track was to be completed.
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a. The line of the Saarmund Golm section which had already been
planned in 153, was definitely denided upon; Investigations on the ground
of Lake Templin made in February. 1955 produced a positive result
and made it possible to start the planned construction of a dam
across the lake. The dam is to have a length of 1.3 km and to be
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to begin on 15 July 1955 Sand islands were filled up in the lake in
late June 1955. The Saarmund Golm section is likely to become the
most expensive section of the siet-e,e Niter Rine. since the
line requires extensive earth work in
addition to the dam in Lake Templin including the fitting in of swampland.
It is estimated that the construction in this section will take about
30 moths and that the line will be put into operation only lie earl
1958..
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b. On about 15 July 19555 a 62-pair Base() cable was to be laid a cng the
Blankenburg - Birkenwerder road. The cables were still stored at tle
Blankenburg freight station. Itls expected,however, that it will soon
be laid. The northern section would then again be connected with the
Berlin net and bypass the Western sectors
The construction of the ashlheide - Karow section is being
Earth work is presently being executed between TTarzahn and
continued.
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L. IIIIIILComment, For overlay of the line, see Annex. Information on this cons
construction ero ect of the Berlin West Ring was previously submitted in
. Another report indicated that Minister of Traffic
is completion of the line by the sumeer of 1956. See
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Comment, ?The section mentioned is the Tuhlheide - Karow section of the
eastern Berlinouter freight ring. Only earth work is planned for 1955i
e. 11111122mment. The planned construction of a new ferry passage in Sassnitz
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for the railroad ferry traffic with Trelleborg, Sweden, was previously
reported. See 1===.)
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4.1111111LCommeset. On 4 July 1955, the shipment of the track at this con t ction
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section of the Berlin Northwest Ring had not yet started See 25X1A
25X1A 5. 111111Fomment. The line is the north Ring which was completed in late 1952c
25X1A 6. 1111111111111Limuent Bahnselbstanschlussanlage a railroad automatic telephone
installation.
Available in the CIA Library is a map overlay
of the Berlin :Jest Ring, section GolwiSaarmund
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