RAILWAY IN PERSIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 46, 3 December 1938, Page 10

RAILWAY IN PERSIA.

ENGINEERS OF 11 NATIONS. For Persia, now known as Iran, ii railway has just been completed to link the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. A train can now run 565 miles from Bandar Shah on the Caspian to Bandar Shapur on the Gulf, crossing the Zagros Mountains in romantic Luristan, spanning the River Abi Cesar, and bringing Teheran, the capital, within reach of the sea both north and south. Tunnels were driven, barracks built for 50,000 men and settlements became villages. It has taken 11 years to build, but the best thing about it is not its v-uue, or the resolve of Iran’s progressive ruler, Shah Riza Pahlevi, to have it made, but that its construction .dionkl have been entrusted to the engineers of/II nations: Great Britain. Germany, France, the United States of America, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and Greece. They were led by little Denmark. , This is the sort of task in which nation should combine. It is gratifying that Britain’s share should have been the hardest.