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'Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway' [143v] (4/52)
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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traffic destined for shipment to Europe would
be diverted from Constantinople (483 kilom.)
to the more convenient port of Smyrna (420
kilom.).
The German Company fully realized the
danger, and the two lines remained separated
by a few yards.
Negotiations were at length begun between the
two Companies, and resulted in an arrangement
by which two French representatives were
admitted to the Board of the Anatolian Bail-
way and two Germans to that of the Smyrna-
Cassaha Company. The Deutsche Bank had
meanwhile purchased shares in the latter Com
pany, and now possesses a majority of the total
issue, and consequently a casting vote.
When this arrangement was concluded (in
1899) the Porte at once removed its veto on the
junction of the two lines at Afioun-Karahissar,
and it was effected in 1901.*
Dr. Rohrbach, in his'book “ Die Bagdadbahn,”
published in Berlin in 1902, expresses the view
that the line to Smyrna should in reality be
looked upon as the first section of the Bagdad
Railway.
The Smyrna-Aidin Railway Company.
(Total length 516 kilom., or 322 miles, including
2 miles leased and worked.)
The oldest Railway Concession in Asia-Minor
is that which was granted to the Smyrna-Aidin
Company in September 1856. The railway
now consists of a main line from Smyrna to
Dineir, vi& Aidin, 376 kilom. (235 miles) in
length, and of seven branch lines, 140 kilom.
(87 miles) in length.
In 1891 the Company applied for a Concession
to prolong the line from Dineir to Konia. They
were unsuccessful on this, as on a subsequent
occasion (in 1901).
The refusal of the Porte was, in the circum
stances, most natural. The Aidin line possessed
no kilometric guarantee. On the other hand, the
Cassaba extension, from Alach^hir to Afioun-
Karahissar, had a guarantee of 18,900 fr. per
kilometre. It was in the interest of the Turkish
Government to diminish this guarantee by in
creasing the trafiSc as rapidly as possible.
* But apparently now the two lines are no lonerer ioined
(March 1906) J
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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'
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- 142r:167v
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