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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [28r] (55/442)
The record is made up of 1 file (221 folios). It was created in Nov 1911-Mar 1917. 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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principal station
It may be urged that Russian troops on an emergency
might be expected to reach Ispahan before troops from India
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could reach huMtoto and that the Indian rolling stock then
captured might be utilized for further operations Eastward.
But, as the line is designed to pass through Bunder Abbas,
a point readily accessible to our troops and fleet it would
be only on the section between Bunder Abbas and Ispahan that
such danger .would exist, and this could be overcome by
registration and limiting the rolling stock on this section
as is done on all European frontier lines.
As Russian influence might be expected to follow
gauge, it were best kept as far from the Indian
frontier as possible and as Ispahan is on the edge of the
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Russian Zone and is the centre of the country it would seem
the most suitable point, even if it were not possible to
restore the town to its ancient position as the capital of
the country.
Such a series of British lines in Southern Persia
would be the surest means of safeguarding the integrity of
Persia or at least preventing its absorption by one Power.
It is evident that while this series of Persian
lines are under discussion a continuation Westward to some
point on the Mediterranean will become essential for through
traffic from India.
The German Baghdad Railway makes a sweep to the
North and does not afford the most direct route for such
traffic.
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The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railway, the Baghdad Railway, and the Nushki and Dalbandin extension from Quetta. The documents discuss the merits and flaws of the proposals, technical issues such as gauge sizes, and the impact of such projects on Britain's relations with Russia, Germany, France, and Turkey.
At the back of the file are a number of official reports on Parliamentary debates within the House of Commons, dating from 10 July 1912 to 25 May 1914, all of which feature railways (folios 128-218). Also at the rear of the file are three maps:
- General Map of Asia with proposed British, German, and Russian rail lines added by hand
- War Office map of the Middle East, showing railways and railway projects
- As above with further rail lines added and details of gauges given.
Correspondents include: Arthur Campbell Yate, army Officer; Henry McNiel; Francis Richard Maunsell, army officer; George Lloyd, politician; Lieutenant-Colonel Charles à Court Repington, army officer and war correspondent; Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Leader of the House of Lords; Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice (Lord Lansdowne), statesman; Lucien Wolf, journalist and historian; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Charles Prestwich Scott, Editor of the Manchester Guardian; Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director, Imperial Bank of Persia; and Colonel Frank Cooke Webb Ware, former Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai.
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The file is arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 221; 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.
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- Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
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- 20r:34v
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- Maunsell, Francis Richard
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