'Routes in Arabia' [613] (646/852)
The record is made up of 1 volume (425 folios). It was created in 1915. It was written in English. 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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Four lines of sidings and two dead ends, some 1,800 yards
in all, are found insufficient for the traffic. Additional
sidings could easily be built on the plain to the east.
Trains from all the four directions (one from each)
meet here at midday, and usually stop from one to two
hours.
A triangle at the north end of the station, formed by the
lines running from Haifa and Damascus, is used in
place of a turn-table for turning the engines. Two
water tanks each with a capacity of 5,600 gallons, are
supplied from a good well by means of a steam pump.
Engine sheds for four engines, and repairing shop for
engines and carriages. Coal loading platform, with a
small reserve of some 20 tons.
A good stone restaurant, kept by a Greek, has been con
structed near the station, and is most useful in the
tourist season, when 50 or 60 tourists pass through
in a day.
Dera'a, 400 houses, is situated on the far side of a deepish
ravine, one mile to the south-west, and is connected
with the railway station by a good metalled road.
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This volume contains descriptions of the 'more important of the known routes in Arabia proper' produced by the General Staff in Simla, India. It is divided up as follows:
Part I - Routes in North-Eastern, Eastern, and Southern Arabia.
Part II - Routes in South-Western, Western, and North-Western Arabia.
Part III - Miscellaneous Routes in Mesopotamia.
Appendix A - Information about Routes etc in the Rowanduz District by Abdullah Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Hereditary Chief of Rowanduz and ex-official of the Turkish Government.
Appendix B - Information relating to Navigation etc of the Tigris between Mosul and Baghdad supplied by our Raftsmen.
The volume contains a Glossary of Arabic Terms used in the route descriptions and a map of Arabia with the routes marked on it.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (425 folios)
- Arrangement
Divided into three sections as outlined in the scope and content.
The file contains a contents page that lists all of the routes included on folios 6-13 and uses the original printed pagination system.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound, printed volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; 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. Please note that f 424 is housed inside f 425.
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Title
- 'Routes in Arabia'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iv-v, 1:18, 1:644, 647:816, v-r:v-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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