File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
IOR/L/PS/10/199
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The record is made up of 1 volume (326 folios). It was created in 1 May 1911-4 Oct 1912. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The volume contains notes by India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. 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.
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- 1 volume (326 folios)
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- 2 imagesRef: IOR/L/PS/10/199, f 279
- Arrangement
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.
- 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 The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- English and French in Latin script
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/199
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- P 42/1912
- Date(s)
- 1 May 1911-4 Oct 1912 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Persia
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- Foreign OfficeSociété Internationale d'Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan
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- IOR/L/PS/10/199
- Title
- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 96r:99v, 117r:118v, 124r:130v
- Author
- Baring, Cecil, 3rd Baron Revelstoke
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 69r:72v, 79r:79v, 82r:82v, 86r:86v, 90r:91v, 216r:216v, 193r:193v
- Author
- Baring, Rowland Thomas, 2nd Earl of Cromer, styled Viscount Errington
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 40r:41v, 100r:101v, 107r:108v
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- Société Internationale d'Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan
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- 13r:13v
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- Baring Brothers and Company Limited
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 199r:200v, 206r:214v
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- Webb, Sir Montagu de Pomeroy
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- Bénac, André Jean
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 131r:188v
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- Société Internationale d'Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- Raindre, Gaston
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- 44r:46v
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- Société Internationale d'Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan
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- 5r:5v
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- Sazonov, Sergei Dmitrievich
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 102r:106v
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- Société Internationale d'Etudes du Chemin de fer Transpersan
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 315r:315v
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- D'Arnaux, Count G
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- Goukassow, Abraham O
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 79r:79v, 82r:82v
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- Russian Committee for the Construction of an International (Transcontinental) Railway through Persia
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 284r:300v
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- Russian Committee for the Construction of an International (Transcontinental) Railway through Persia
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- 199r:199r, 205r:205r, 256r:260v
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- Barry, Arthur John
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- Hughes, Sir Walter Charleton
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- 261r:261v
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- Cambon, Pierre Paul
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- 50r:64v
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- House of Lords
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 322r:323r
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- Hamburger Nachrichten
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 323r:324v
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- Münchener Neueste Nachrichten
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 16r:16v
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- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- 20r:20v
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- Wesselitsky, Gabriel de
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- Sketch map showing the projected line of the proposed route of the Trans-Persian Railway through Persia, Russia and Baluchistan
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- 279r:279v
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- British Committee for the Trans-Persian Railway Scheme
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- File 42/1912 ‘TRANS-PERSIAN RAILWAY’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:4v, 6r:12v, 14r:15v, 18r:19v, 21r:37v, 47r:49v, 65r:68v, 73r:78v, 80r:81v, 83r:85v, 88r:89v, 92r:95v, 109r:116v, 119r:123v, 189r:192v, 194r:198v, 201r:204v, 205v, 215r:215v, 217r:234v, 239r:255v, 280r:283v, 301r:314v, 316v:317v, 320r:321v, 327r:327v, back-i
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