[Andrey Kuznetsov]

Thanks to Miro for the interesting info from interviews.

About the nice story about Feindnachrichten-Abhördienst I fully agree with Paul.

As for real results of Eisenbahn-Staffeln, I has browsed published directives and orders of Stavka and General Staff of Red Army for March-August 1943. The sole relevant document is the request of investigation of two events:
19.Jun.43 explosion of 30+ rail wagons with ammunition on Volkhovstroy station due to air raid.
21.Jun.43 explosion of 27 rail wagons with ammunition due to direct hit into train on the railroad Kursk-Kastornoye.
Request was steamed by clear breaking of order (dated 21.May.43) about limit for maximal number of wagons in ammo- and fuel trains in frontline areas (20 wagons).

So Luftwaffe railroad activity had forced to limit the length of trains with dangerous load. But it was not only due to Eisenbahn-Staffeln activity but also due to usual bombing raids, armed recce (day and night), daytime ground attack missions etc, even due to German sabotage acts.

Both losses mentioned above weren’t Eisenbahn-Staffeln successes. 19.Jun. it was a large raid, 21.Jun. - ground attack of 3 Bf109.

Eisenbahn-Staffeln activity was one of factors that has forced the strengthen the air defense, of course. But detailed analysis of their share in comparison with other Luftwaffe units is impossible due to lack of detailed data about the number of sorties, claims etc.

Best regards,
Andrey