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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Trans-Iranian Railway, 1927-

1. IOR/L/PS/10/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/160
Title:
File 3874/1908 'Railways:-Trans-Persian Railway.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the proposed construction of the Trans-Persia railway which would link the European and Indian railway systems. The economic and strategic considerations of the construction of a railway linking Calais, Berlin, Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/199
Title:
File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains notes by India Office officials, as well as their correspondence with Foreign Office officials and others, about the formation in Paris in 1912 of La Société Internationale d’Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan, which is also referred to as the Société d’Etudes for the Trans-P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1911-4 Oct 1912
Extent:

1 volume (326 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/246

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/246
Title:
File 930/1912 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns proposals for the construction of a British-owned railway between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad] in Persia. The papers include: the response of the Shaikh of Mohammerah, the Government of Persia, and the Government of Russia to the proposals; an India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Oct 1911-25 Nov 1912
Extent:

1 volume (194 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/307
Title:
File 4345/1912 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports, a press cutting and a map, relating to the connection of the railway system of Europe to the railway system of India by the construction of railway lines through Persia. The discussion in the volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1913
Extent:
1 volume (163 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/379
Title:
File 1569/1913 Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
This volume contains multiple files with correspondence, reports, hand written memos, financial arrangements, and maps on the proposed Trans-Persian Railway. Most letters pertain to the charting of possible routes for the proposed railway in relation to British interests vis-à-vis the Russian Em...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1911-11 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/416

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/416
Title:
File 4045/1913 Pt 1-2 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia. Parts one and two of three. Topics covered: the proposed application by the Société Internationale d'Études for the opt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1916
Extent:
1 volume (251 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/417
Title:
File 4045/1913 'Pt 3 Railways: Trans-Persian Railway; Russian concession; Bandar Abbas-Kerman Railway; Kerman mining concession'
Scope & Content:
Continuation of correspondence and memoranda regarding the proposed construction of railways in Persia, and additional bids for mining concessions. The correspondents are the India Office Political Department, the Foreign Office, HM Minister at Teheran [Charles Murray Marling], Marquess Curzon,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1932
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/311
Title:
Persia: supply of dynamite, etc to the Persian Government
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to a request from the Persian Government for supplies of dynamite. The request is passed from the Iranian Consul-General to the Government of India, Department of Supply, who refer the matter to the Foreign Office out of concern for what they feel is an '...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1939-2 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/3409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3409
Title:
Coll 28/12 ’Persia; Railways; Trans-Persian Railway’
Scope & Content:
Reports submitted by British officials in Persia [Iran], along with newspaper cuttings from the British press, relating to construction work on the Trans-Persian Railway, intended to run from Bandar Shah [Bandar-e Torkaman] in the north of the country, to Bandar Shapur [Bandar-e Emam Khomeyni] a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Jun 1931-18 Nov 1940
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3789

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3789
Title:
Coll 30/72 'Foreign Shipping in: Inauguration of regular steamship service from Italy by the Lloyd Triestino Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the introduction of a 'subsidised' shipping service into the Persian Gulf by the Italian shipping company Lloyd Triestino. The Foreign Office viewed the development with concern, at a time of increasing international interest in the Persian Gulf. The papers cover: summary of f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1933-31 May 1935
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)