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'Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway' [142v] (2/52)
The record is made up of 1 volume (25 folios). It was created in Jun 1906. 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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General Railway Development in Asia
Minor up to 1903.*
The Anatolian Railway Company.
(Scutari to Konia, 1,032 kilom., or 615 miles,
including Angora line.)
The first section of this line, from Scutari to
Ismidt (91 kilom.), was originally built to the
order of the Turkish Government, under the
direction of a German engineer, Yon Plessel. It
was completed in 1873. The Ottoman autho
rities soon found it difficult to work, and in 1880
granted it as a Concession to an English Com
pany for twenty years. They had, however,
reserved the right to determine the Concession at
any date, and they exercised it in October 1888
in favour of M. Kaulla, a German.
At the same time this gentleman received a
Concession for ninety-nine years for a line from
Ismidt to Angora, a distance of 487 kilom., with
a kilometric guarantee of 15,000 fr., while the
guarantee for the section from Scutari to Ismidt
was fixed at 10,300 fr. per kilometre.
M. Kaulla was acting on behalf of the
Deutsche Bank and the Wiirtembergiscke
Vereinsbank. On the 16th March, 1889, these
two institutions founded the Ottoman Company
of Anatolian Railways. Practically the whole
capital of the new Company was subscribed in
Germany.
The line to Angora began to work in 1893.
In February of the same year two further
Concessions were granted to the Anatolian Com
pany :—
1. Por an extension of the line from Eski-
chehir (a point about midway between Ismidt
and Angora) to Konia, a distance of 445J kilom.,
with a guarantee of nearly 14,000 fr. per kilom.;
and
2. Por a line from Angora to Kaiserieh, with
an eventual extension to Bagdad via Sivas and
Diabekir.
The Company found, in the light of further
investigation, that the line from Angora to
* Vide “ Stock Exchange Official Intelligence,” 1906.
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This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic.
The memorandum is divided up as follows:
1. General Railway development in Asia Minor;
2. The Baghdad Railway Convention of 1903;
3. The Anglo-German negotiations of 1903;
4. The prospects of completion of the line without British co-operation;
5. The influence of the railway on British interests.
The file contains a map of the rail lines on folio 159 entitled 'Le Chemin De Fer De Bagdad' (The Baghdad Railway).
The appendix to the memorandum contains a copy (in French) of the Convention de la Societe Imperiale Ottomane du Chemin de Fer de Bagdad of March, 1903 (folios 160-166), in and on folio 167 a list of official correspondence and publications referenced in the memorandum.
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- 1 volume (25 folios)
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On folio 167, the memorandum contains a list of all official correspondence and publications referenced in it.
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Foliation: The foliation for this description commences at f 142, and terminates at f 167, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
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- 'Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway'
- Pages
- 142r:167v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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