The Restoration & Archiving Trust’s old colour photos of the standard gauge and now-defunct metre gauge railways in Iraq are now at a new address.
Well worth a browse.
Archive for January, 2008
Historic colour photos of Iraqi railways
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008Iran – Iraq link
Monday, January 14th, 2008Railways Africa reports that a 15km line between Khorramshahr and Shalamcheh is nearing completion
Monday, 07 January 2008
According to an Iraqi transportation ministry announcement, the Baghdad government “’strongly supports” the implementation of a proposed rail project linking Iran and Iraq.The Al-Alam TV network quoted Iraq Railways Javad Al-Khorrasan saying: “During the first phase of the project, a railway will cross from Basra and head to Iran via Shalamcheh.”
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In terms of a second plan, a line is envisaged from Baghdad via the north west of Iraq to Monzariyah and thence into Iran.
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New York Times 1879 report
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008The projected Afghan railway is a report from the New York Times of 26 October 1879 about plans for a railway to Kandahar from Shikarpore, in what was then British-ruled India but is now Pakistan. Some of the attitudes towards the peoples of the region are firmly in the “they don’t write them like that any more” category.
