Baghdad Railway
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Berlin, Germany
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Transport services
Railway transport services exc private & industrial railways
Notes:
The Baghdad Railway as a strategically important railway linking Western Europe with the Middle East, ultimately running from Berlin to Baghdad. The first components were constructed by German interests from the 1880s. The concession for the final component, linking Ankara with Baghdad, within the Ottoman Empire, was awarded to German interests in 1902. After 1902 it became a source of strategic concern to the British government as its completion would have threatened India and given Germany access to Middle East oil, although in 1903 the government withdrew from proposed involvement in the project. Construction halted by 1914-18 War, resumed in 1930s and completed 1940
Publications:
- British withdrawal from the Baghdad Railway project in April 1903 by Francis, Richard M
- Die Bagdadbahn. Geschichte und Gegenwart einer Beruhmten Eisenbahnlinie by Lodemann, Jurgen, & Manfred Pohl
- Diplomatic history of the Bagdad Railroad by Wolf, John B
- Distant Ties. Germany, the Ottoman Empire and the construction of the Baghdad Railway by McMurray, Jonathan S
- Financial history of the Anatolian and Baghdad Railways, 1889-1914 by Barth, B
- 'Financing the Bagdadbahn. Barings, the City and the Foreign Office, 1902-03' in A K B Evans & J V Gough (eds), The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain. Essays in honour of Jack Simmons by Cottrell, P L
- Great Britain and the Bagdad Railway, 1888-1914 by Chapman, Maybelle K
- Imperialismus und Gleichgewicht. Deutschland, England und die Orientalische Frage by Schollgen, G G
- Records of the government of India on the Berlin-Baghdad railway question by Kumar, R
- The Berlin-Baghdad Express. The Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 by McMeekin, Sean
- The Train that Disappeared into History. The Berlin Baghdad Railway and how it led to the Great War by Somerwil-Ayrton, S K
- Turkey, the Great Powers and the Bagdad Railway by Earle, Edward M
- War and the Bagdad Railway. The story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict by Jastrow, Morris
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Berlin, Germany
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Transport services Railway transport services exc private & industrial railways
Notes:
The Baghdad Railway as a strategically important railway linking Western Europe with the Middle East, ultimately running from Berlin to Baghdad. The first components were constructed by German interests from the 1880s. The concession for the final component, linking Ankara with Baghdad, within the Ottoman Empire, was awarded to German interests in 1902. After 1902 it became a source of strategic concern to the British government as its completion would have threatened India and given Germany access to Middle East oil, although in 1903 the government withdrew from proposed involvement in the project. Construction halted by 1914-18 War, resumed in 1930s and completed 1940Publications:
- British withdrawal from the Baghdad Railway project in April 1903 by Francis, Richard M
- Die Bagdadbahn. Geschichte und Gegenwart einer Beruhmten Eisenbahnlinie by Lodemann, Jurgen, & Manfred Pohl
- Diplomatic history of the Bagdad Railroad by Wolf, John B
- Distant Ties. Germany, the Ottoman Empire and the construction of the Baghdad Railway by McMurray, Jonathan S
- Financial history of the Anatolian and Baghdad Railways, 1889-1914 by Barth, B
- 'Financing the Bagdadbahn. Barings, the City and the Foreign Office, 1902-03' in A K B Evans & J V Gough (eds), The Impact of the Railway on Society in Britain. Essays in honour of Jack Simmons by Cottrell, P L
- Great Britain and the Bagdad Railway, 1888-1914 by Chapman, Maybelle K
- Imperialismus und Gleichgewicht. Deutschland, England und die Orientalische Frage by Schollgen, G G
- Records of the government of India on the Berlin-Baghdad railway question by Kumar, R
- The Berlin-Baghdad Express. The Ottoman Empire and Germany's bid for world power, 1898-1918 by McMeekin, Sean
- The Train that Disappeared into History. The Berlin Baghdad Railway and how it led to the Great War by Somerwil-Ayrton, S K
- Turkey, the Great Powers and the Bagdad Railway by Earle, Edward M
- War and the Bagdad Railway. The story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict by Jastrow, Morris