RAILWAY TO INDIA.
“ALL-RED LINE.” PROPOSED DIRECT BRITISH
Sir Mortimer Durand presided at a meeting oi the Royal United Service Institute, when Mr. C- E. D. Black, formerly of che Geographical Department of the India Office, lectured on “A Proposed Railway from Egypt to India.”
Air. Black, said that, the projected railway from Egypt to Western India was an effort to solve the question of a direct British, or “All-Bed” railway route to India. Starting from Port Said, or, rather, from the opposite bank of the Suez Canal, there lay a feasible route eastward to Nushki— India’s westernmost railway terminus. The railway would touch the sea at Port Said, Akaba, and Kcwedt, and, indirctly, would be in communication with the coast a t two or three points in Turkish and Persian territory. The railway was desirable because (1) it would shorten the journey to India by six whole days,- thus reducing the time by transit from England to India from fourteen to fifteen days to eight days. (2) It would form a valuable alternative route to India, and the East generally. (3) For the rapid conveyance of troops from India to the Mediterranean of vice versa the line would bo invaluable.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3390, 4 December 1911, Page 2
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