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Persian railways are as follows.
1 . Local line round Tehran, with six stations.
2. To Khaniqin (Turkish frontier) 437 miles, via Hamadan and Kirman-
shah, with branches (a) Hamadan-Burujird thence to Nihavand with
branch line Daulatabad-Sultanabad. (b) Hamadan-Sinneh via Kirwah with
branch to Bijar in Garus.
3. To Meshed, 531| miles, via Samnan, Shahrud and Sabzawar, with
branches—
(a) Mehshed-Darreh via Kalat-i-Nadirl.
(b) Meshed-Kuchan via Chinaran.
(c) Meshed-Bujnurd.
(d) Meshed-Sarakhs connected with the Bussian system in the bed
of the Hari-Rud.
(e) Meshed-Sistan in course of construction.
(/) Saman-Firuzkuh.
(</) Shahrud-Astarabad-Meshed-i-Sar with a branch Barfarush-Amul.
4. To Enzali via Kazvln with a branch, Kazvin-Astara.
There is a good carriage road from Tehran to Rashn or Enzali on the
Caspian via Kazvin. In May 1912, the Russians employed a section of an
automobile company, consisting of 4 motor lorries and one light car, from
Enzali to Kazvin, in carrying supplies, ammunition, and passengers. The
light car was driven also from Kazvin to Tehran. From Kazvin there is a
good and much frequented caravan route to Tabriz and thence to Julfa
on the Russian frontier. There is a carriage road in fair order from
Tehran to Qum and thence on to Isfahan by a very fair track. With
the exception of the two roads to Rasht and Qum all the other routes
leading from Tehran are the usual Persian tracks. But there are chapdr
stations along most of them, where riding ponies can generally be
obtained.
TIAK ?—
A village in Acarbaljan, one mile from Kirman, on the right of the road
from Tabriz to Ardabil via Ahar.— {Holmes.)
TIFLUMAR—
(Also called Gird Faramurz) a village, six miles from Yazd, on the road
to Isfahan. It has about 200 houses, the inhabitants being silk cultivators
—{Euan Smith.)
TUAN—
A fine village surrounded by gardens, a few miles beyond Khunsar on
the road to Gulpaigan.— {Preece, 1893.)
TIJIN, TIJIN RUD or TIJIN CHAl—
A river in Mazandaran, rising in the mountains west of Shah-Kuh draining
the Hazar Jarib plateau and entering the plain of Sari 4 to 5 miles from
above the town, and 16 to 17 miles from the sea. At its mouth is the village
of Faranabad. The Taj an is a fine stream, flowing over a sound gravelly
bed, 200 to 250 yards wide. Within 1 mile of Sari it is crossed by a solid and
handsome brick bridge of seventeen arches, only three of which are occupied
by the stream in the winter. The bridge was constructed by Agha Muhammad
Khan and is still in good repair. It is very narrow, being only 24 feet wide.