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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Railway lines

1. IOR/L/PS/10/271, f 251

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271, f 251
Title:
'SKETCH MAP TO SHEW APPROXIMATELY RAILWAYS IN ASIATIC TURKEY'
Scope & Content:
Map, illustrating railway lines in Asiatic Turkey, to accompany Bagdad Railway No. 1 (1911). Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty, May 1911 (London, His Majesty's Stationery Office). The publication appears on folios 215-252. The map was produced by the Topographical...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1911
Extent:
1 map

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2022, f 172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2022, f 172
Title:
‘SHAN STATES AIR ROUTE: Scale 1 Inch = 137 Miles’
Scope & Content:
A map accompanying a report by Frederick Tymms, Director of Civil Aviation in India, on his reconnaissance flight of 25-26 April 1937: see folios 165-171. The purpose of the flight was to explore the possibility of establishing a direct air route between Burma and Hong Kong via French Indo-China...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 map

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2022, f 173

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2022, f 173
Title:
‘SHAN STATES AIR ROUTE: Scale 1 Inch = 32 Miles’
Scope & Content:
A map accompanying a report by Frederick Tymms, Director of Civil Aviation in India, on his reconnaissance flight of 25-26 April 1937: see folios 165-171. The purpose of the flight was to explore the possibility of establishing a direct air route between Burma and Hong Kong via French Indo-China...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1937
Extent:
1 map

4. IOR/L/PS/12/2038, f 103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2038, f 103
Title:
Sketch map of South Eastern Persia
Scope & Content:
A sketch map of the south eastern region of Persia [Iran] showing the border with Afghanistan and Baluchistan. It indicates the positions of Kerman, Mirjarah, and Zahidan, which are marked due to the presence of airfields constructed by the British military. It has been filed with papers consider...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[Jan 1945]
Extent:
1 map

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2038, f 130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2038, f 130
Title:
‘PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
The map accompanies a report titled ‘Air Transport in Persia – 1944 and afterwards’ by Walter Leslie Runciman, Air Attaché at Tehran: see folios 119-129. It shows Persia [Iran] in the centre bounded by Iraq to the East, Afghanistan and Baluchistan to the West, the Caspian Sea in the North, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 map

6. IOR/L/PS/12/3898

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3898
Title:
Coll 30/160(3) 'Measures to influence Persia in time of war. Question of supply of railway material to Persia.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply by the Government of India of railway material to the Government of Iran. The supply of such material was seen by the British Government as a means of influencing certain minor powers in the Middle East in favour of the British on the outbreak of war [the Second Worl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1939-10 May 1940
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/A145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/A145
Title:
Baluchistan and Persia. Note by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note, written by Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, member of the Council of India, on the subject of the northernmost portion of land in the province of Baluchistan [Balochistān], south of the Durand line, which is described as being situated between British India and Kelat [Kalat]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1899
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/A169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/A169
Title:
'Anglo-Russian Relations'
Scope & Content:
This file begins with draft instructions, under the heading 'Anglo-Russian Relations', apparently written by John Morley, Secretary of State for India, for Sir Arthur Nicolson, British Ambassador at St Petersburg, in advance of negotiations over an Anglo-Russian agreement. The instructions are ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1906-12 Jun 1906
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C152
Title:
Quetta-Seistan Railway
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report by the Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain], which is addressed to the Prime Minister [Herbert Henry Asquith]. The report concerns a proposal, made by the Commander-in-Chief in India [Sir Beauchamp Duff], to extend the Quetta–Nushki railway to S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1916-4 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C153
Title:
Bunder Abbas – Kerman Railway
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, written by Lord Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston], discusses a proposed Bunder Abbas–Kerman railway line. Curzon considers the possible diplomatic, commercial and strategic motives for constructing the railway line. Curzon argues that if the line h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)