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'Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway' [‎150v] (18/52)

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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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-an ailglTTiTl lit (Tgntmues up to a total rrceipt of^
fp_ the excess over tliis sum is
divided between the Government and the Com
pany in the proportion of GO per cent, and 40 per
cent.
The working expenses guarantee is secured on
and paid from the surplus of the revenues already
allocated to the kilometric guarantees of the
Anatolian Railway.
The first section of the railway, from Konia to
Eregli, was opened to trafih; in October, 1904.
The distance to Eregli is only 190 kilom., so the
line was prolonged to Rourgourlou, 10 kilom.
beyond Eregli, in order to complete the
200 kilom.
The loan for the first section (Bagdad Railway
Loan, first series, 1903) was taken up at 86'40,
and produced about 46,502,320 fr., or 1,860,092/.
The estimates of the actual expenditure on
this section show considerable discrepancy.
Sir G. Clarke, in a letter and inclosure dated
7th April, 1906, estimates the cost at the rate of
not less than 8,000/. per mile for construction
alone, without including rolling-stock.
Erom a careful comparison of available data,
the cost of the first section (125 miles) would
appear to have amounted to 840,000/. for rolling-
stock and construction.
This sum is composed as follows : —
Rolling-stock, at rate of 1,024/. per mile
Construction, at rate of 5,696/. per mile
Jt
.. 128,000
.. 712,000
Total
The cost per mile works out:—
.. 840,000
Ground-work
Permanent-way and stations..
Rolling-stock*
£
.. 1,472
.. 4,224
.. 1,024
Total
.. 6,720
To the cost of the first section must be added
a sum of 172,000/. spent in faux-frais to Turkish
officials and in surveys over the whole line. It
is believed that the “ backsheesh ” for the whole
Concession was defrayed out of the profits on
this section.
Estimating, therefore, the total expenditure at
1,012,000/., and deducting it from the product of
the first loan (1,860,092/.), there remains a balance
of 818,092/. Of this about 400,000/., certainlv
not less, w as constituted into a reserve fund for
later sections, and the rest was distributed.
* The Estimate for rolling-stock is based on the informa
tion supplied by three independent local experts,

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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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