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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [96r] (191/442)
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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rapid Boundary and other surveys of a reconnaissance nature.
Valuable although such maps are, in the absence of detailed
surveys, yet their limitations are real and must be recognised.
The lines on which the Political position in the
middle 3ast has been ^roupin? itself, for the pest fifteen years,
has constrained the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
of this Memorandum to believe that the
time was approaching when we would find that our Persian and
Afghan interests would compel us to have recourse to Pallway
extension construction and holding this belief, which recent event
have but confirmed, he has been at considerable pains to supplement
the nap and other data we possess with such information, bearing
on these subjects, as he has boon able to collect in the course of
a close personal as eolation with this country which 1ms extended
bach, almost unbroken, to the year I8€6; lengthy annual tours* and
the transfrontier visits he hrr paid to Shorawak* the Beglstan,
Eoh-I-Pusht, the valley of the Helmand, Seisten, and to the Sarhad
division of Persian Baluchistan, as well as to the Kharan State. The
cordiality of the relations, never ultro^pperent Inxt always real and
sincere, which have distinguished the dealings between the Chafrai
Dist: end Afghan authorities of the Kelmand (Garxaael) valley has
done much to facilitate the collection of this information.
The first point which impresses itself on the rr&nd, which
a visit to this country is constantly emphasising, is the trend
from East to West, of its main Geographical features. The Helmand,
the largest river in Afghanistan, flows, for the most Important
part of its course, from East to 'feet. This river divides, into
two parts, of almost equal area, the desert which forms the S,W.
side of Afghanistan and which stretches from '"ast to ’ est. The
general slope of this desert is from ^’ast to T?oot. The
huge saikl rluges, the eoounulation$of sand, whi-ch form so
remarkable a feature along the Southern Limits of this desert, start
from near Kandahar and run West to Palang Koh, in Southern Seistan.
The hill range which links the Chagai Sarlat bills to the Sarhad,
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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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- 1 file (221 folios)
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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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- Mss Eur F112/252
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- Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
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- 87r:90v, 95r:221v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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