"تقرير عسكري عن منطقة حقول نفط شركة النفط الأنجلو-إيرانية (في جنوب إيران)" [و‎‎١‎٦] (١٥٠/٤٠)

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It appears that sufficient barges will almost always be avail
able in Abadan for all military requirements for a small force of
(sav) one brigade, and that it will be extra steamers only, during
the winter, that will be required from Basra.
Sec,. 5. RAILWAYS, (a) Light Railway, Dar-i-Khazineh to
Md-md-i-Rnleiman —single line 2' 6 " gauge length 36 miles of 40
miles including sidings. Rails 30 lbs. B. S. F. B„ (old section).
Steel sleepers to which rails are secured by steel keys. "Track
ballasted with sandstone and river shingle. Curves 5° to 45°.
Maximum grade 3-2%. There are 3 main bridge Hopkins
Truss type of spans lOo, 120 and 120 feet. The line follows the
metalled road from Dar-i-Khazineh towards Masjid-i-Suleiman
to Abgah after which it turns south-east following the Tembi
river to Tembi Power Station and thence runs to Masjid-i-
Suleiman and Chashm-i-Ali. There are stations at D. 1. K.
Abgah (12 miles) Batwand (16 miles) Tembi (27 miles) M. I. S.
(32 miles) Chashm-i-Ali (36 miles). The average time taken from
D. I. K. to Chashm-i-Ali is 4£ hours.
From D. I. K. to Abgah and from Tembi to M. I. S. the
maximum useful lift per train is 45 tons ; between Abgah and
Tembi 85 tons.
At present the A. I. O. C. run an average of one train per
day moving 60 tons from end to end. The maximum ever
moved by them in one month is 3,600 tons, or 120 tons average
per day. The number of trains per day using daylight hours
only can be increased to 4 in the summer or 3 in the winter.
Over the limiting section, therefore, this means a maximum
of 180 tons per day in summer, or 135 tons in winter. Assum
ing A. I. O. C. average requirements to be 60 tons a day,
a maximum of approximately 120 tons a day in summer and 75
tons in winter would be available for military purposes.
Locomotives burn oil fuel. Details of locomotives and
^ rolling stock are given in Appendix XL
( 6 ) Southern Section Trans-Iran Railway .—Single line
standard gauge (4' HhJ'). (The line is for fast and continuous
traffic from Bandar Shahpur to Salehabad (Andimishk) just
south of Dizful, a distance of about 150 miles. The line is
“ through ” for traffic to Tehran.
All bridges and culverts are steel or concrete, with a parti
cularly fine British built steel girder bridge of 51 spans across
the Karun river at Ahwaz. The stations between Bandar
Shahpur and Salehabad (Andimishk) are shown on Map 1.