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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [55r] (109/442)
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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30 th July 1913 •
idea of finding a means to obtain the line.
Again in 1390 my father supported by a powerful
group endeavoured to obtain from the Ottoman Government the
Concession for a Railway from Alexandretta to Baghdad and
Basra, but German influence with the Sultan proved too strong
for him and by the advice of Sir William White thehr British
Ambassador to Turkey he applied for a line of Railway from
Khanikin on the Persian Frontier to Baghdad, with extensions
to Kerbsla and Uedjef.
His endeavours had the support of Sir William White add
his successor Sir Clare Ford, and were favourably looked upon
by Kiamil
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, the then Grand Vizier, but the banishment
of that statesman and my father’s subsequent death once more
relegated the scheme to oblivion.
Five years later I endeavoured to revi/e the Khanikin
Baghdad line by means of a Concession originally granted to a
Baghdadee named Abdu-Rahmnn, but the prejudice of Abdul Hamid
against all British enterprise in the Southern parts of his
Empire prevented me from getting £he Concession modified to
suit the English capitalists behind me, and once again the
matter was abandoned.
In Larch 1903 I was in Constantinople. It was then
that the Anatolian Railways Company signed with the Sultan the
Baghdad
sr"
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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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- Staniforth, Charles George
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