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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Railways Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

1. IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 118-183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 118-183
Title:
Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 61 of 1850, dated 2 November 1850. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 14 September 1850. The papers relate to affairs in the vicinity of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Nov 1850
Extent:
1 item (66 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 244-248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 244-248
Title:
Political No. 150 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of a Letter from HM Minister at Teheran to Earl Granville, Explaining Why he Believes the Completion of a Railway between the Caspian and Teheran would be Fatal to the Independence of Persia
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 1 September 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 30 September 1873, forwarding copies of a letter from the Minister at Teheran [Teh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1873-30 Sep 1873
Extent:
1 item (7 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/12/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/51
Title:
PZ 2246/1932 'Communications between London and the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to communications between London and the Middle East. It mainly consists of copies of correspondence sent to the India Office from the Foreign Office. This largely consists of copies of correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Apr 1932-26 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3493A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3493A
Title:
Coll 28/87 ‘Persia; Railways; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway. Road Communications between Persia & India’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the railway line running from Duzdap [Zahedan] via Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] in Iran, across the border to Nok Kundi in India (now Pakistan). The first section of the file contains papers dated December 1934 to November 1941 (ff 111-184), chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jan 1935-31 Oct 1947
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3516
Title:
Coll 28/105 ‘Iran. Transit of German railway coaches to Iran via Iraq.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning possible arrangements for Iranian railway carriages to be commandeered for the transport of British troops in Iraq. The correspondence covers: the likely reluctance of the Government of Iran to allow such an arrangement; the impact of any arrangment on relations between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1941-1 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)