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1. IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 271-273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/268, ff 271-273
Title:
Railways in Persia
Scope & Content:
Letter and Enclosure to HM Secretary of State for India, dated 24 October 1871. The letter encloses one from Charles Alison, HBM's Minister at Teheran [Tehran], dated 17 July 1871, describing the history of the Persian Government's interest in railway construction, and stating the need for such...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1871-24 Oct 1871
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 240-248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 240-248
Title:
A Proposed Railway from Europe to the Indus
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 67 of 1850, dated 16 November 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 3 October to 15 November 1850. The papers relate to a proposed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1850
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/12
Title:
File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1901-1908
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/177
Title:
File 1702/1910 Pt 1-2 'Railways: Persia. Persian Railway Syndicate'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and maps, relating to the two topics contained in the volume on railway development in Persia. The first topic is the Khoremmabad-Dizful-Mohammerah railway and the survey required to assess its practicability and probable cos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (401 folios)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/332
Title:
File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains memoranda, correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding railway constructions in Persia, focussing on the line planned between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad, Iran]. The subjects covered are: the leasi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
27 Nov 1912-14 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/595
Title:
File 1484/1916 ‘Persia; Quetta-Mushki Railway Extension’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, reports, memoranda and minute papers, relating to military and commercial assessments of an extension to the railway from Quetta to Nushki, British Baluchistan [present-day Pakistan], and from Nushki to Seistan [Sīstān], Persia [Iran]. The volume includes: a l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1916-10 Feb 1920
Extent:

1 volume (258 folios)