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IOR/L/PS/10/199
- Record Id:
- 040-000545037
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00005c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028069426.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/199
- Title:
- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
- Scope & Content:
- The volume contains notes by India Office officials, as well as their correspondence with Foreign Office officials and others, about the formation in Paris in 1912 of La Société Internationale d’Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan, which is also referred to as the Société d’Etudes for the Trans-Persian railway project. The Société d’Etudes was a consortium of Russian, French and British financiers for the construction of a railway line across Persia from the Caspian Sea in the north (the Russian sphere) to the Gulf in the south (the British sphere), with the support and approval of their respective governments. The main correspondents who are members or officials of government include: the British and Russian Ministers for Foreign Affairs and their senior officials, the British Ambassador at St Petersburg, the French Ambassador at London, the British Minister at Tehran and the Viceroy of India. The main correspondents who are members of the British Group of the Société d’Etudes include: Cecil Baring (Director of Baring Brothers and Company Limited, London), Lord Revelstoke (John Baring) and Viscount Errington (Rowland Thomas Baring). The correspondents discuss the financial arrangements and the constitution of the Société d’Etudes, the proposed route of the Trans-Persian railway line and in particular, an Anglo-Russian understanding that neither the Russian Group nor the British Group of the Société d’Etudes would seek a railway concession from the Persian Government that would extend territorially beyond their respective spheres of influence in Persia.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545037 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/199 : File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’ - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/10/199, f 279 : Sketch map showing the projected line of the proposed route of the Trans-Persian Railway through Persia, Russia and…
Click here to View / search full list of parts of IOR/L/PS/10/199 - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0199]/040-000545037
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume (326 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00005c
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1911
- End Date:
- 1912
- Date Range:
- 1 May 1911-4 Oct 1912
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 328; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- P 42/1912
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 42 (Trans-Persian Railway) consists of one volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)