"كتيّب بلاد الرافدين. المجلد IV .١٩١٧" [و‎‎٢‎١‎٠] (٥٣٠/٤٢٤)

RAILWAY
415
Miles from
Aleppo
17|
21i?
24
40
42
45
52
53
54|?
56
66
69
70i
Line crosses the Kuweik by plate-girder bridge, 60-ft.
span. Country open and undulating: several villages.
Akhterin, 3rd class station. One loop and one dead
end siding, 400 yds. long ; water-tower ; quarry, village,
and old fort to S.
Country rises slightly for one or two miles, and then
slowly falls to Choban Bey.
Ch5bau Eey, 3rd class station ; one loop, 400 yds., and
one dead-end siding, 300 yds. long; no water-tower.
Country now slightly more stony, f m. beyond the
station is a small cutting of 10 ft. for 50 yds. Then the
line crosses the head of a tributary valley draining into
the Kuweik.
Country more undulating on S. Level open plain to N.
Soil generally chalky.
Line traverses low cutting for a mile.
Line embanked for a mile into Aqcheh Koyunli.
Aqcheh Koyunli. One loop-siding, 700 yds., and one dead
end, 500 yds. Water-tower, station-building, and three
other stone buildings for staff.
On leaving the station the line passes through a low cutting
for 800 yds., and then over 1,000 yds. of embankment,
with a steady falling grade of 1 in 83 for about 2,400 yds.
down to the Sajur.
Sajur Chai, flowing S. (Distance from Aqcheh Koyunli
given in Report as 2| km. ; but the wording of the
description immediately above suggests that the mileage
should be 55i.)
Cross by a two-span bridge, each span of 30 ft., one span
(over main channel) being plate-girder, while the other
is of reinforced concrete (?).
After the bridge the line, which is embanked for 500 yds.
near to river, rises at 1 in 83 for about 2,600 yds.
Line continues over undulating country, falling to valley
of Euphrates: several grades of 1 in 83 down and one of
1 in 90 up are met with.
Hulmen, 3rd class station. One loop-siding, 500 yds.,
and one dead-end, 400 yds. No water. There is only
a station-building with a small parcels-office here.
A line of low dunes is passed, forming actual watershed
of r. bank of Euphrates.
Line runs through cutting for 100 yds., and following the