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Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia [97r] (193/442)
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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3.
runs ai^ain frcni East to West. The size of the sand ridges.
East of the Chartai Sarlat hills, their general oonformation, and
certain deductions to be drawn fror their imlersTround water supply,
all fro to show that these hills once extended, for a considerable
distance, due East of the Chafrai range but have been overwhelmed
by drift sand. The drainage of the Quetta hills, after passing
through the Shorawak and Nushki dale plains, both plains with a
v/esterly tilt, terminates away to the West, in the Chagai Haimm.
All the main sand belts met with in Nushki and Cha^i, run West. The
lofty mountain barrier Which separates the Eharan and Dalbandln
plains, runs frer* East to West and, as both these plains have a
marked downward slope Westwards, it follows that their drainage
also flows from East to West. This western trend finds its limit when
it reaches the foot of the mountain barrier which separates
British and Persian Baluchistan from one another and the slope which
forms the Eastern glacis of the Khorassan hills. This mountain
barrier runs North, from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
littoral, in an almost
direct lino, until it reaches Koh-I-Halik Siah. Here it swings
round to the West, making almost a ridit nn^le bend and, becoming
thereafter the dividing line between the Khorassan and Kirman
Provinces, continues West until it merges in the Khorassan hill
system. In the Southern sector, these hills are merely the outlying
fringe of the Persian Baluchistan hill region but when they
leave this system, which they do not far from Jalk, they assume
a widely different character. Prom this point, they form a rugged
clear cut rocky wall with a breadth never great but which narrows,
as it advances North, until it fines down into a wall only p few
miles wide. This wall - and this is a matter both of considerable
Geographical interest as well as of groat Political Importance —
separates the *Great Persian Desert”, whose Eastern extremity
goes under the name of the "Great Kirman Desert 1 ’, from the desert
country or British Baluchistan. Fran this wall denudation slopes
project into the desert, on either side. The "Great Persian deserf
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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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- 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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