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Page 640
The rate of construction, which is increasing, now averages about I oo miles a
year, and the railway is expected to reach Medina in 191 o, and Mecca about
three years later. The cost is estimated at a little more than £3 ooo a mile, or
altogether ...
The rate of construction, which is increasing, now averages about I oo miles a
year, and the railway is expected to reach Medina in 191 o, and Mecca about
three years later. The cost is estimated at a little more than £3 ooo a mile, or
altogether ...
Page 641
By the time the railway reaches the gates of Mecca, it will undoubtedly be linked
up from Damascus, vid Aleppo, with the Anatolian system and the Baghdad line,
and there will thus be an unbroken iron road from Constantinople to the Sacred ...
By the time the railway reaches the gates of Mecca, it will undoubtedly be linked
up from Damascus, vid Aleppo, with the Anatolian system and the Baghdad line,
and there will thus be an unbroken iron road from Constantinople to the Sacred ...
Page 871
the Deutsche Bank and its group, bought for 6,ooo, ooo 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 Engllsh company. He at the
same ...
the Deutsche Bank and its group, bought for 6,ooo, ooo 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 Engllsh company. He at the
same ...
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