File 930/1912 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway'

Title:

File 930/1912 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway'

Date:

1911/1912

Description:

Abstract: The volume concerns proposals for the construction of a British-owned railway between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad] in Persia.The papers include: the response of the Shaikh of Mohammerah, the Government of Persia, and the Government of Russia to the proposals; an India Office 'Memorandum on Persian Railways' dated June 1911 (including a map entitled 'Persian Gulf and Adjacent Countries', dated June 1908, on folio 184, to illustrate the memorandum); a Government of India 'Report of the Committee on the Proposed Trans-Persian Railway', February 1911 (folios 126-128); 'Report to the Board of Trade by Mr. H. W. Maclean, Special Commissioner of the Commercial Intelligence Committee to Persia, on certain matters connected with Persian Trade' (folios 101-104), and letter giving the views of the Board of Trade on the proposed railway, 25 March 1912 (folios 96-99); correspondence from the Persian Railways Syndicate, which stated it was surprised at the 'lukewarm attitude' towards the project of the Government of India (folio 80); discussion of proposals to negotiate a lease of Khor Musa [Khowr-e Mūsá] from the Shaikh of Mohammerah (folios 26-54); and interest in Khor Musa from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (folios 38-39).There is also significant correspondence in the file from the Foreign Office and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox).The volume contains copies of earlier correspondence and agreements from 1903-1911.The French language content of the volume consists of approximately ten folios of diplomatic correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 194; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-51; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Railway construction

Geographic region:

Mohammerah
Khoremabad
Khor Musa

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00008b_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x00008b_en
IOR/L/PS/10/246
IOR/L/PS/10/246

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