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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Railways

1. IOR/L/PS/10/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/87
Title:
File 3131/1905 'Mesopotamia:- Irrigation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, a memorandum, notes and reports on a scheme devised by Sir William Willcocks for irrigation in Mesopotamia. It also includes a number of reports about the effect of the Baghdad railway both on relations with Persia and on the defence of India. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/399
Title:
File 2977/1913 'Baghdad Railway: negotiations with Germany'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains diplomatic correspondence and agreements relating to the completion of sections of the Berlin to Baghdad Railway. In particular, the papers discuss the extension of the railway from Baghdad to Basra, and possibly its extension to the Persian Gulf at Shatt-al-Arab waterway. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1908-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (337 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/89
Title:
File 379/1906 'Railways: Aden; railway construction in Aden hinterland; Aden-Lahej Railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and notes, relating to proposals for the construction of a steam railway between Aden and its hinterland from 1904. The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1904-3 Apr 1922
Extent:
1 volume (150 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/58
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 3 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1910-1912.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1910-1912. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (268 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/166
Title:
File 3047/1909 'Railways: Asiatic Turkey; railway construction in Asia Minor'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the construction of railways in Asiatic Turkey, 1908-1911, as well as oil concessions in Mesopotamia. Correspondence outlines the proposal to develop a railway from Tripoli via Homs and Deir [Deir ez-Z...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1908-1911
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/60
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 5 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; concessions proposed in respect of Kowait; negotations with Hakki Pasha in London; Anglo-Turkish agreement.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to a negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1912-1914. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1914
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

10. 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)