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'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918' [263] (272/568)
The record is made up of 1 volume (282 folios). It was created in 1918. It was written in English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish and Syriac. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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COMMUNICATIONS AND TEANSPOET
268
Station buildings between Jerablus and Tel Abiyadh are said to be
made of concrete brick owing to the cost of stone.
The Jerablus railway bridge across the Euphrates is 892 yards
long and consists of 10 spans with an overhead lattice girder. The
breadth of the bridge is 20 ft. (15 ft. for railway, 4 ft. for pathway).
The foundations are of cement concrete lowered into a water-tight
iron casing made of interlocking piling 45 ft. X 20 ft. in plan. The
top of this piling is at low-water level, above which the pier is of
smaller section. The concrete goes right up to the bed-plate of the
bridge, and is stone-faced. In the sandy bed of the river the concrete
goes down to a depth of 43f ft. (13 metres); elsewhere it is on rock
foundations. An earth bank with a stone-wall foundation has been
made on the right bank of the Euphrates above the bridge, to prevent
the river floods from damaging the railway bank west of the bridge.
As regards other bridges on this section of the Baghdad Eailway,
the only available information is as follows :
Between Arab Punar and Kharab Nas there are apparently 3 plate-
girder bridges over the Qaramush.
Between Tel Hamud and Eas el-Ain there is reported to be a
lattice-girder bridge 66 yds. long over the Jirjib Chai.
Branch Lines:
(1) Derbesiyeh—Mardln. A broad-gauge line is reported to run
from Derbesiyeh to the neighbourhood of Mardln. Its northern
terminus is apparently 4 miles S. of Mardln town. Length, 14 miles.
(2) From Tel Helif in the direction of Diarbekr. A Decauville
railway is reported to run from Tel Helif towards Diarbekr. It
apparently extends to a point a few miles beyond Mardln.
(ii) Samarra— Baghdad (73-59 miles).
Intermediate
Stations.
males.
— Samarra (on right bank of Tigris)
12-85 Istablat
11-68 Beled
11-24 Sumeikeh (branch to Tigris opposite Sa'diyeh)
12-42 Khan Meshahidiyeh
12-98 Tajiyeh
7-14 Kazimain
5-28 Baghdad
In December 1914 the railway had been extended from Samarra to
a point 25 miles N. of Tekrit.
(h)Eailways constructed in Irak since 1914 :
(i) Basra— Amara (112 miles, via Kurna at mile 43). Metre gauge.
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This volume is A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Naval Staff, Intelligence Department: November 1918). This is an updated and expanded edition of A Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume I, General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Department: August 1916) (IOR/L/MIL17/15/41/1). This is an introductory volume containing matter of a general nature giving an account of conditions in Mesopotamia, for the most part as they were before the First World War.
The volume includes a note on official use, a title page and 'Note'. There is a page of 'Contents' that includes the following chapters and sections:
- Chapter 1: Boundaries and Physical Features;
- Chapter 2: Climate;
- Chapter 3: Minerals;
- Chapter 4: Fauna and Flora;
- Chapter 5: Hygiene;
- Chapter 6: History;
- Chapter 7: Inhabitants;
- Chapter 8: Religions;
- Chapter 9: Administration;
- Chapter 10: Irrigation of Irak [Iraq];
- Chapter 11: Agriculture and Land Tenure;
- Chapter 12: Commerce and Industry;
- Chapter 13: Currency, Weights, and Measures;
- Chapter 14: Communications and Transport;
- Vocabularies;
- Index.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (282 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged in numbered chapters. There is a contents page and an alphabetically arranged index.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of the folio.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- 'Handbook of Mesopotamia. Vol. I. 1918'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:556, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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