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1 item (originally accompanying a report on the Trans-Caspian Railway) extracted...
Catalogue reference: MPKK 1/4
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This record is about the 1 item (originally accompanying a report on the Trans-Caspian Railway) extracted... dating from 1887 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1887
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1 item (originally accompanying a report on the Trans-Caspian Railway) extracted from FO 65/1321 (folio 314A). Central Asia. Map of the Trans-Caspian Railway, showing the area between Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan) and Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan). Scale: 1 inch to 16 miles. Prepared by the Intelligence Branch, Quartermaster General's Department, Simla, June 1887. 2 insets: 'Section of British branch line, Sukkur [now in Pakistan] to Abdulla and extension to Khudari'; 'Section of Russian branch line, Charjui [now Chardzhev, Turkmenistan] to Bosagn'; both at horizontal scale: 1 inch to 25.4 miles; vertical scale: 1 inch 2,540.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- 49cm x 128 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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