ORGANIZATION OF THE POLISH STATE RAILROADS

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• Publication Date: August 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 25X1 REPORT
INFORMATION REPORT co NO.
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Organization of the Polish State Railroads
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The Ministry of Railways, ul. Chalubinskiego 4, Warsaw, is divided into eight
departments: personnel, finance, sup--.1y, traffic, trade, plans, control, and
electro-technical. Of these, the most important are: trade, traffic, control,
and supply.
2. The ten geographic subdivisions of the ministry are located in Lodz,
Lublin, Krakow, Katowice, vlroclaw, Poznan, Szczecin, Gdansk and Olsztyn.
3. The Central Bureau for Foreign Accounts and Tariff (Centralne Biuro Rozliczen
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which they are located. Among these ;points are: Kostrzyn, Rzepin, Frankfurt/Oder,
Guben and Forst. Other . such points may be in Szczecin and Zgorzelec? There
are undoubtedly other border croseieg points which control exit and entry traffic
on the Czech and Russian borders.
i Taryf Za;;ranicznych - CBRTZ) in Bydgoszcz is responsible for keeping track of
all frei;k_t and trains entering or leaving Poland. The office employs 65 to 75
workers; its chief is directly responsible to the Minister of Railways.
Border crossing points (punkty zd$wczo-odbiorcze) are under the direction of
CBRTZ but they are administratively responsible to the railway directorates in
5. Border crossing points are staffed by 18 officials: three trade agents, six
technical a.;ents, three traffic agents and six secretaries. The staff works in
three 24 hour shifts in rotation. If the border transfer point is outside
Polish territory, as in Frankfurt, Guben and Forst, the employees commute from
their homes since they are not permitted to live outside the country. While
they are working on foreign soil, staff members are permitted to deal only with
their official counter-arts; mingling with the local population is forbidden.
The officials are subject to a thorough seam each time they cross or recross
the border.
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The duties of these si,a.i:fs are to inspect rolling: stock entering Poland
for possible technical deficiencies, to ins-sect freight and chock it
against manifests, to schod-.ilo the incoming traff is in the Polish
railway system, to transfer responsibility for trains leaving :oland
to the competent foreign officials, to record trains and freight entering
Poland together with the na^o of the train co:niiande.:r.
Each of the ten regional directorates has the technical services of two
or more sections at its disnosal. These sect ons are stationed a?:.~;-
fron the directorate's headquarters. For example, the Poznan directorate,
located at 3liera `;karbc a, has two such sections (oddzialy), One is
located in dbaszynek and th- other in Zielona Cora. The Zbaszynek section
has e::tensive repair fac _lities, while the second has offices which
control railway traffic and freight movement it the western :!art of the
Poznan directorate,
All rail traffisi nassin.;, through Frankfurt/Order, both German and Polish,
is supervised by a Russian officer, dajor (fnu) ?opoy, His supervisor
Is Lt. Col. Ts yganov whose office is not i.n Frankfurt.
9, A count;, 3 . office is located east of Frankfurt/Odor in Slubice;
the o ':.'--ce is in charge of an oicht man U.3. rail::rr 1.euach^r nt
stationed in 2zenin and heea ed by Lt. 14, nd Joz iak.
10. A unit of the 3ail::ay i':otective service (5luzba Oc::rony Kolei
is also stationed in ?zepin; oi; Jit :men are attached to it and are co:.randed
by (fnu) Kozlowski,
11. Another unit stationed in :dzep.n is the customs service (Straz Celna),
made un of '-,0 employ(rs. (Fnu! Jager is chief of the grou?.). The o'iice
:sac ':. sti)sec t: Locs, one in :~l ~aaice .for freight and one i notirice
or ;a-senCcrs.
12. Controls at Frankfurt/Odor no'. administered by any of the above three
o 'fiecs are handled by the Jo'der -card A dO battalion is
stationed in S3 Soice commanded by a -major. One company is located in
2zenin; one of the com:rpan 's platoons is stationed in Kunowiee. The
battalion does not perform no:'mal `)order guard functions; instead, its
mission is the security control of railway traffic in the, area.
13. The majority of the offenses ;etucted by security or police forces in
the ?r-lankfurt area involve si i filing. Items most frequently smug--?)red
-re the follo,-,in,;: to Poland From Germany, watches, nylon stockings,
silk kr,rc +iefs, harmonicas, r..zor. Blades, radio tubes, electric light
and flashlight bulbs, fountain teens, bottles of in. medicines, Wool
yarn, needles, gold coins; smi ' filing from Poland to Germany may involve
c? ;area_tes, tobacco and s^iadl anounts of dollars.
1 . Traffic crossing the 'iorJier t is rankf urt/uder and dzenin consists of
transit trains bet-r-en the D71:i and the 'U-.' S , a few passenger trains
between 7+arsa:r and w+oaterr Durone and trains between the DD:~ and Poland.
15. D:;'i--Tf Sii transit traffic consists of three passenger trains and 12 to 18
freight trains daily. at German Polish traffic is limited to two
passenger trains and five freight trains a ~Isy.
160 Passenger trains running '.between the D..R and the USSR carry Soviet troops
and officials t.i and from their duty stati;"ns. Freight to the DD ,2 is
usually shi ounce. in healed cars, although occasionally open cars are
observed loaded with tanks, artillery ?feces and army cars. Other freight
to the DD2 rclude . iron ore, anthracite, Iron plate and grain. Freight
shipments consigned to hussia include new railway cars, rail:.-ay under-
carriages, :grans., nassonger cars, u:uaei:ines and machine parts, electric
turbines, yasolin.., ariquettbs, paper and uranium ore. Uranium bearing
cars are ,larked ith the letter "A".
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V. Freight from Poland cansigned to the DL consists cf horses for the
Netherlands, wood for 3elCium, ho,s, teat, fat, fish. potatoes, grain,
fowl, wood, woodp'Op for newsprint, coal and raw hides. That destined
for Poland, coming; from past Germany is made up of fertilizer, electrical
machines, aitomobiles, motorcycles, motors, radios, film and photographic
equi :rent, musical instruments, machine parts, leather and herrinn fro_:i
Holland.
10. The last printed schedule for transit traffic expired ]1 '11a v 1951,
The nany changes 17hhich have taken place since then have had to be entered
by hand or ins:rted by mimeographed sheets into the old book. A new
of the scho ule, hoo ver, was issued 18 Lay 1952, 3-
19. In the spring, of 1952, after the opening of a part of the new Oder river
railway br_::ge running between Frankfurt and Slubice, speed regulations
on the span were reaoved, An extra rail li:E is still under construction?
20. A new and nermanont railway bridge was also put into operation in the
spring of 1952 between Zbaszyn and Chroscica,
21, .7idenin- of road beds bet;vroen Frankfurt/Oder and tzepin, Swwiebo,=zin and
Poznan/Dobina, and Swarzed and rrzesnia has reduced the speed limit on
these stretches to between 80 and 90 kilometers per hour.
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