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'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF' [386r] (774/862)
The record is made up of 1 volume (430 folios). It was created in 1944. It was written in English. 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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RAILWAYS
4. BAGHDAD WEST-TEL KOTCHEK 1
Route
Baghdad-Samarra (1915)
737 miles
118-6 kilometres
Samarra-Baiji (1918)
6o-i „
9 6 7
Baiji-Mosul (1940)
• 1227 „
i 97'5
Mosul-Tel Kotchek (1939)
• 73'9 »
118-9
33°’4
53 1 '7
The years given in brackets
are those in which each section was
opened for traffic.
Branch-lines
None; but there are small branch-sidings at Samarra and Baiji for special
purposes.
Permanent Way and Statio?is (from reports in 1940, 1941)
Standard gauge (4 ft. 8| in.). Single track. Flat-bottom (F.B.B.S.) rails,
75 lb. per yard. Sleepers: steel from Baghdad to Samarra, timber from
Samarra to Mosul, steel from Mosul to Tel Kotchek. Ballast: shingle
Baghdad-Samarra; elsewhere miscellaneous local material, part limestone,
part shingle, but some of low grade. Earthwork: generally a clayey loam
from borrow-pits alongside.
Maximum axle-load, 1579 tons; minimum radius of curves 930 feet;
maximum gradient, 1 in 125.
Maximum distance between passing-loops, 31-5 miles (June 1941), but
additional passing-loops were being constructed to reduce the distance to
8-5 miles between Baghdad and Mosul, and to n miles between Mosul and
Tel Kotchek. Average length of loops at stations, 2,000 feet (Nov. 1940).
Speed and Capacity
Normal overall times (including stops) in November 1940 were as
follows:
Baghdad-Mosul, mixed trains 17! hours; goods trains 26^ hours.
Baghdad-Tel Kotchek, mixed trains 23^ hours; goods trains 34!
hours.
Normal service in November 1940 was 1 mixed train each way daily
between Baghdad and Mosul, and 3 mixed and 1 goods train each way
weekly between Baghdad and Tel Kotchek. Severe restrictions on speed
were enforced between Baiji and Mosul at that time because of poorly
ballasted track, but may have been lifted since.
Maximum capacity of the line throughout was then limited to 1 train
1 The details given below are compiled from reports dated November 194° anc l
June 1941. Improvements were then being planned, but subsequent details are not
yet available for publication.
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The volume is titled Iraq and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (London: Naval Intelligence Division, 1944).
The report contains preliminary remarks by the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1942 (John Henry Godfrey) and the Director of Naval Intelligence, 1944 (E G N Rushbrook).
There then follows thirteen chapters:
- I. Introduction.
- II. Geology and description of the land.
- III. Coasts of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
- IV. Climate, vegetation and fauna.
- V. History.
- VI. People.
- VII. Distribution of the people.
- VIII. Administration and public life.
- IX. Public health and disease.
- X. Irrigation, agriculture, and minor industry.
- XI. Currency, finance, commerce and oil.
- XII. Ports and inland towns.
- XIII. Communications.
- Appendices: stratigraphy; meteorological tables; ten historical sites, chronological table; weights and measures; authorship, authorities and maps.
There follows a section listing 105 text figures and maps and a section listing over 200 illustrations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (430 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is divided into a number of chapters, sub-sections whose arrangement is detailed in the contents section (folios 7-13) which includes a section on text-figures and maps, and list of illustrations. The volume consists of front matter pages (xviii), and then a further 682 pages in the original pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 430; 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'. side of each folio.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'IRAQ AND THE PERSIAN GULF'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:253r, 254r, 255r:429v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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