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'Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway' [143r] (3/52)
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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Kaiserieh would not prove remunerative, and it
was consequently abandoned.
The section to Konia was opened to traffic in
1896.
The total mileage of the Anatolian Companv
at this time was 645, made up as follows :—
Scutari to Ism idt
Miles.
.. 57
Ismidt to Angora
# #
.. 304
Eskichehir to Konia
# #
279
Branch Line ..
..
5
Total ..
.. 645
The Managing Director of the railway was at
first M. von Kuhlman, who was afterwards
succeeded by M. Zander. The Chief Engineer
was M. von Kapp.
Before enumerating the further stages of the
Turco-German negotiations in regard to railway
development, it will be convenient to describe
briefly other lines in Asiatic Turkey which are
only partially under German influence, or entirely
independent.
The Smyrna-Cassaba Railway Company.
(Total length, with extension to Afioun-Kara-
hissar and branches, 518 kilom., or 324 miles.)
The Smyrna-Cassaba Railway Concession was
granted in 1863 to Mr. E. Price, who transferred
his rights to a British Company. In 1872 an
extension of 75 kilom., from Cassaba to Ala-
chehir, was sanctioned.
In 1893 the Ottoman Government exercised
the right of repurchase, and transferred the line
to M. Georges Nagelmackers (Director of the
International Sleeping Car Company), granting
him at the same time an extension to Afioun-
Karahissar.
In the following year, M. Nagelmackers
transferred the line to the Societe Nouvelle des
Chemins de Per Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolonge-
ment, with its head-quarters at Paris.
The Company was thus placed more or less
under French influence.
Afioun-Karahissar was, however, already served
by the Anatolian Railway, and it was obvious
that if a junction were effected much of the
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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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