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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Railways

31. IOR/L/PS/12/1965

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1965
Title:
Coll 5/19 ‘Air Route to India: Sharjah Rest House – Payment and accounting arrangements’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the financing and construction of a rest house at Sharjah for the use of the passengers of Imperial Airways. It contains correspondence authorising expenditure, outlining the procedure to be followed for making payments, and reporting on the progress of construction. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jul 1932-5 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/12/2116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2116
Title:
Coll 6/49 'Railways and Communications: Proposed Jedda-Mecca Railway. Motor Transport Arrangements.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the progress of schemes relating to the improvement of transport and communications in Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1932-17 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (109 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/2851

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2851
Title:
Coll 17/7(1) 'Iraq and Palestine: agreement for transit through Palestine of goods to and from Iraq; Baghdad-Haifa railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, reports and minutes regarding road and rail transport through Iraq, Trans-Jordan [Jordan], Palestine, Syria and Iran. The following topics are discussed in detail: The proposed construction of a Baghdad-Haifa rail route. The file also includes records regardin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Apr 1929-23 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 volume (524 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/12/2868

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2868
Title:
Coll 17/14 'Railways: termination of appointment of Mr E R Perry as Agent of Iraqi railways at Bombay; working of Iraqi railways'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding the ownership and management of the Iraqi Railways. The file opens with a small amount of correspondence regarding the decision to dispense with the services of Edward Ralph Perry, the Agent of the Iraqi Railways in Bombay, and also to appoint Mr A Rawlinson to the posit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1933-29 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 file (180 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/12/2892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2892
Title:
Coll 17/30(1) ‘Iraq. Proposed additional outlet to the sea, in or near Koweit territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed construction of a port in Kuwait (Koweit) Bay, and the construction of a port in Um Qasr Creek. The papers mostly concern the following: The attitude of HM Government towards the proposal of the Government of Iraq for the extension of the Iraqi ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1938-19 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (530 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/12/3399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3399
Title:
Coll 28/5 ‘Railways &c; Mirjawa-Duzdap section of Duzdap Railway; Effect on roads’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the transfer of ownership of the railway line running between Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] and Duzdap [Zahedan] in eastern Persia [Iran], from the Government of India to the Persian Government. The volume begins with reports of interruptions to monthly rations trains, prompting the Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Mar 1931-12 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 volume (428 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/12/3408

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3408
Title:
Coll 28/11 ‘Persia; Diaries; Sistan and Kain Commercial. 1931 – – 1933’
Scope & Content:
Printed copies of monthly confidential commercial reports for the region of Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] in eastern Persia [Iran], submitted by the British Consul at Sistan and Kain (Major Clive Kirkpatrick Daly). The reports include: details of the demand for, and statistical data of the imports and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1931-12 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 volume (99 folios)

38. 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)

39. IOR/L/PS/12/3415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3415
Title:
Coll 28/19 ‘Sistan & Kain. Annual Commercial Reports’
Scope & Content:
Annual commercial reports for the provinces of Sistan and Kain [Ka’īn] (from 1936, referred to as the provinces of Khorāsān and Mekran [Makran]), submitted by the British Consul for Sistan and Kain (from 1936, the British Consul-General for Khorāsān, Meshed [Mashhad]) (Clarmont Percival Skrine; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1928-5 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/12/3422

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3422
Title:
Coll 28/25 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Negotiations re Mirjawa – Duzdap line etc.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Department of Industries and Labour of the Government of India, the British Legation at Tehran (Robert Henry Clive; Raymond Cecil Parr), and India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite), concerning the status of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] to Duzdap [Zahedan] telegraph l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1931-1 May 1931
Extent:
1 file (35 folios)