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File 930/1912 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway' [143v] (293/396)
The record is made up of 1 volume (194 folios). It was created in 31 Oct 1911-25 Nov 1912. 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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100 at any point. Steel trestle bridges of stock size might be used to cross the stream
and would, if I may presume to offer an opinion on such a technical point, be well
suited to the country and conditious of labour and construction. • t* +
47. To estimate the cost of this gorge line, the length of which, from Tang-i-T o
Pul-i-Kurr o Dukhtar, may be taken at 40 miles, is of course quite beyond me even ad
I been able to traverse it from end to end. I am assured however on the authority of
the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Akram and others, the general accuracy of whose statements ee ^
able to check, that a mule track exists right up the gorge, and that at no poi t t
contract to such an extent as to form an impassable canyon. 1 i , f oneniol
Allowing 3
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
a-mile for the line, including bridges, and 25
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
for special
tunnelling (which would seem, all things considered, to be a liberal allowance) or e
northern and southern ends of this valfey, which I have traversed, and the centre, which
I have seen from a short distance, offer no formidable obstacles to radway constiuc ion
we obtain a total of 180
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
. The total cost of this alignment would thus be as
follows :—
Sections 1 to 5, 84 miles at 65,000
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
..
Kashgan gorge, 40 miles ..
Tang-i-Tir Khoremabad, 16 miles
Grand total for 120 miles
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
1.23.65.000
1,45,00,000
12 , 00,000
2.80.65.000
(= 1.871.000/., or 15,600/. a-mile.)
48. The difference between the cost of this alignment and that via Madian is
171,000Z., according to this estimate, which is a mere guess ; the savmg of length is no
less than 65 miles, about one quarter of the distance between Dizful and Burujird ; the
absence of steep gradients is an added advantage. # tit m
Had I seen any chance of being able to examine this valley more closely, 1 wou
have waited for another month or two in order to do so, but the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Axram, who
alone could arrange for my safe conduct along this line, left for the Kermanshah district
to revenge the murder of a friend of his, by plundering the guilty tribe, and simu a-
neously hostilities commenced between the Bairanwand and the Governor-General,
making any further stay in the neighbourhood, out of the question.
I think it not improbable that this alignment may turn out very little more,
perhaps less, expensive than that via Kuh-i-Dasht, and I would recommend that any
engineer expert who may subsequently be deputed to prepare authoritative estimates
and effect a regular and detailed survey of an alignment should first examine the
Kashgan gorge; in order to do so, he must make his survey between June and
November (the floods this year being quite abnormal), and must arrange with the
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
Akram (whose head-quarters are at Tarhan), to provide the necessary escort
which he will, no doubt, gladly do. In any case the saving in length by this route may
be considered to justify some extra expenditure.
Part IV.— Possible Extensions of Alignment from Khoremabad Northwards.
49. Possible Pi'olongation of Line from Khoremabad onwards.
The easiest prolongation would undoubtedly be towards Kermanshah, distant
rather more than 100 miles; the country traversed is well fitted, for a railway
alignment which would run parallel to the mountain ranges which run in a north-north
west direction throughout Luristan. But such prolongation would be of little use
towards developing British trade in Central Persia, and I assume that the^prolongation
contemplated is to Burujird and thence to Tehran via Hamadan or via Sultanabad
and Kum.
The boundary between the Russian sphere of influence and the neutral zone in
this region is “ a line starting from Kasr-i-Shirin, passing through Ispahan. . ...
Kermanshah and Burujird are thus included in the region in which Great Britain
engaged not to seek concessions “for railways, land, telegraphs, road, transport,
insurance, &c.,” though all concessions which existed in the region in question on the
31st August, 1907, are maintained.
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The volume concerns proposals for the construction of a British-owned railway between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad] in Persia.
The papers include: the response of the Shaikh of Mohammerah, the Government of Persia, and the Government of Russia to the proposals; an 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. 'Memorandum on Persian Railways' dated June 1911 (including a map entitled ' Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Adjacent Countries', dated June 1908, on folio 184, to illustrate the memorandum); a Government of India 'Report of the Committee on the Proposed Trans-Persian Railway', February 1911 (folios 126-128); 'Report to the Board of Trade by Mr. H. W. Maclean, Special Commissioner of the Commercial Intelligence Committee to Persia, on certain matters connected with Persian Trade' (folios 101-104), and letter giving the views of the Board of Trade on the proposed railway, 25 March 1912 (folios 96-99); correspondence from the Persian Railways Syndicate, which stated it was surprised at the 'lukewarm attitude' towards the project of the Government of India (folio 80); discussion of proposals to negotiate a lease of Khor Musa [Khowr-e Mūsá] from the Shaikh of Mohammerah (folios 26-54); and interest in Khor Musa from the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (folios 38-39).
There is also significant correspondence in the file from the Foreign Office and the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox).
The volume contains copies of earlier correspondence and agreements from 1903-1911.
The French language content of the volume consists of approximately ten folios of diplomatic correspondence.
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- 1 volume (194 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of volume.
The subject 930 (Mohammerah-Khoremabad Railway) consists of one volume only.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 194; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-51; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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