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Page 640
The rate of construction , which is increasing , now averages about 100 miles a year , and the railway is expected to reach Medina in 1910 , and Mecca about three years later . The cost is estimated at a little more than £ 3000 a mile ...
The rate of construction , which is increasing , now averages about 100 miles a year , and the railway is expected to reach Medina in 1910 , and Mecca about three years later . The cost is estimated at a little more than £ 3000 a mile ...
Page 641
By the time the railway reaches the gates of Mecca , it will undoubtedly be linked up from Damascus , viā Aleppo , with the Anatolian system and the Baghdad line , and there will thus be an unbroken iron road from Constantinople to the ...
By the time the railway reaches the gates of Mecca , it will undoubtedly be linked up from Damascus , viā Aleppo , with the Anatolian system and the Baghdad line , and there will thus be an unbroken iron road from Constantinople to the ...
Page 871
the Deutsche Bank and its group , bought for 6,000,000 francs the railway line of 92 kilometres from Haidar Pasha to Ismid , which belonged to the Turkish Government , but had been let for exploitation to an English company .
the Deutsche Bank and its group , bought for 6,000,000 francs the railway line of 92 kilometres from Haidar Pasha to Ismid , which belonged to the Turkish Government , but had been let for exploitation to an English company .
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