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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Baghdad Railway, 1903-

1. IOR/L/MIL/5/808

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/808
Title:
'Intelligence Mesopotamia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of various telegrams on railways between the Director of Military Intelligence, the Commander-in-Chief India, the General Officer Commanding Mesopotamia, and the Caucasus Military Agent during the period July-November 1917. Principal subjects of discussion are: the exte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jul 1917-10 Nov 1917
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/48/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3 'Koweit:- Bunder Shweikh. Foreshore Case 1907.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the circumstances leading up to the grant of a lease in October 1907 by Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] of Koweit [Kuwait] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. The principal correspondents are the Politic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1901-11 Mar 1908
Extent:

147 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/10/262

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/262
Title:
File 1247/1912 Pts 1-2 'KOWEIT & MOHAMMERAH ANGLO-TURKISH AGREEMENT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913 and especially the negotiations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] and Shaikh of Mahommera [Khorramshahr] with respect to their boundaries with Turkey. The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1896-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271
Title:
File 1808/1912 'Bagdad Railway. Navigation of the Tigris & Lynch's Agreement with the Company for the transport of railway material.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the navigation of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, and moves by The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as Messrs Lynch) to negotiate an agreement with the Baghdad Railway Company for the transport of railway material up the rivers of Turkish Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 Mar 1912-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (253 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/414
Title:
File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence that relates to the same topic, namely a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Sep 1913-21 Jul 1914
Extent:

1 volume (237 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/415
Title:
File 4044/1913 Pts 1-2 'Bagdad Railway Negotiations'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains drafts and counter-drafts of the Anglo-German Convention on the Bagdad Railway, plus agreements involving the Bagdad Railway Company, the Ottoman Railway Company, the Anatolian Railway Company, and the Ottoman Government. There is also correspondence regarding the negotiation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B153
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic. The memorandum is divided up as follows: 1. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1906
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B160
Title:
‘Baghdad Railway.’
Scope & Content:
Printed confidential memorandum (B 160), written by Major Lindsay Sherwood Newmarch, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, dated 18 December 1906. The memorandum addresses the associated risks and benefits to be incurred and gained from not being involved in the construction of the Baghdad railw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1906
Extent:

4 folios

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B166a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166a
Title:
Collection of papers respecting the attitude of His Majesty's Government in regard to the Bagdad Railway and the Purchase of Land at Koweit (amended version)
Scope & Content:
The document, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, is a collection of letters and dispatches from 3 March 1904 to 16 September 1907, between the India Office and the Government of India on the purchase of land in Kuwait for the Baghdad Railway.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1907
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)