English Translation

Despite the considerable increase in traffic, all requirements, especially the top performances during autumn traffic, were met. The operating service worked closely with the Deutsche Reichsbahn. The train lines and overhead train lines set up according to the model of the DR at the BMB for the uniform management of the operation as well as through the operating centre accelerated the operation considerably. In the field of security and telecommunications, a number of safety and telecommunication facilities were completed in order to increase operational safety and economic efficiency, as well as telecommunications lines were built.The alignment with the Deutsche Reichsbahn was taken into account. In the case of passenger transport, only the lines serving the transport of workers and pupils remain in operation, and the operation of lorries was also limited to the carriage of goods which are important for the war economy or the food industry. In order to save liquid fuels, the conversion of road vehicles to wood gas and methane was continued according to plan. The motor vehicle repair plant in Prague-Werschowitz carried out these conversions as well as all major and major repairs to road vehicles. The traffic service could fully meet the increasing demands. In order to save uneconomic empty runs, an agreement was concluded with the Deutsche Reichsbahn on the joint use of the freight wagons. Loading equipment and containers, which entered into force on 1 May 1941, was concluded. In order to relieve rail traffic, an attempt was made with good success to transfer cargo shipments to inland waterways in the transport relationships that can be served by water (from Prague and Melnik to various places in the rest of the Reich). In order to speed up the exchange of goods in rail transport between the Protectorate and the rest of the Reich, the alignment of the provisions on transport in force in the Protectorates with those in the remainder of the Kingdom was continued. For example, the conditions for container transport, the guidelines for container positioning, the designation of piece goods, the registration of stations in Bohemia and Moravia, the provisions on permissible axle pressures, meter weights, axle positions and loading dimensions, etc., were aligned with the provisions of the German Reichsbahn. On 1 April 1941, a new BMB-EvO was issued closely in line with the Reich's Eisenbahn traffic regulations. The adaptation of the BMB's Pe rsohn e n e n-, G epäck u n d Expressguttarif to that of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, which was initiated in 1940, was gradually continued. On 1 January 1941, a general increase in fares by half of the remaining differences was carried out. 4