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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/18/C124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C124
Title:
'Note on Persian Railways'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum provides a brief history of proposals for the development of railways in Persia divided into three periods: 1872-1890: a period of Anglo-Russian rivalry; 1890-1907: the period following the Russian Railway Agreement (1890), which prohibited the construction of railways in Persia; ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1911
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/18/C128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C128
Title:
'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum considers whether or not the British Government should support the development of a Trans-Persian Railway linking Europe to India. To this end it examines the potential benefits, and who (Britain, Germany, Persia, or Russia) stands to gain/lose the most from the project; it looks ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1913
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B172
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway, 1909
Scope & Content:
A printed confidential memorandum for the use of the Foreign Office. The memorandum addresses the Turkish [Ottoman] increase of custom dues and proposals of a Tigris Valley Railway and a Baghdad-Mediterranean Railway. It also contains updates on negotiations with Germany, Russia and France in 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1910
Extent:

bound in volume with other documents (17 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/C122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C122
Title:
'Memorandum on Persian Railways'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum outlines the development of proposals for railways in Persia between 1872 and 1911. This includes discussion of the potential advantages/disadvantages (both commercial and political) for the British in the construction of railways in Southern Persia, and the potential threat posed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Jun 1911
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C131
Title:
Memorandum by Mr. Parker respecting Railway Construction in Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum considers whether British participation in the proposed Trans-Persian Railway would be in Britain's interests. To this end it considers possible advantages/disadvantages to British trade, finance, and her strategic/political interests. The appendix (folio 32) contains an extract ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1913
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C133
Title:
Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
The memorandum — signed by Lieutenant-General Percy Lake, Chief of the Indian General Staff — considers whether Britain should accept Russian demands that the proposed Trans-Persian Railway should be routed via Kerman. It examines the potential strategic advantages to Russia, the consequent pote...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1913
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B285
Title:
The Baghdad Railway Negotiations
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a copy of an article reprinted for private circulation from the The Quarterly Review of October 1917 concerning the Baghdad Railway negotiations. The purpose of the article is to trace the development of railway interests in Turkey and seek to focus the situation in wh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1917
Extent:

16 folios, including 1 map

10. IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1, f 167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C253/1, f 167
Title:
‘Iraq, Map Shewing Railways
Scope & Content:
This map depicts the railway network in ‘Iraq [Iraq], showing railway lines, with standard and metre gauges indicated, and railway stations and water stations. The map also shows main cities and settlements, the rivers Tigris, Euphrates, Zab, and Shatt al Arab, and tributaries and branches, lake...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1941
Extent:
1 map sheet