. The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell . Herewe meet the French system, known as the companyof the Chemin de Fer Beyrouth-Damas-Hauran,which owns the line (one hundred and fifty-five milesin length) connecting Beirut with Damascus andMezerib, the latter about six miles to the west of railway, which has been open to through traflScsince 1895, and which has no kilometric guarantee,is built upon the somewhat exceptional gauge of 3feet inches ( metres). Starting from Beirut harbour the railway, which ison the Abt system (a
. The cradle of the war, the Near East and Pan-Germanism. With foreword by A. Lawrence Lowell . Herewe meet the French system, known as the companyof the Chemin de Fer Beyrouth-Damas-Hauran,which owns the line (one hundred and fifty-five milesin length) connecting Beirut with Damascus andMezerib, the latter about six miles to the west of railway, which has been open to through traflScsince 1895, and which has no kilometric guarantee,is built upon the somewhat exceptional gauge of 3feet inches ( metres). Starting from Beirut harbour the railway, which ison the Abt system (an engine that can work eitherby adhesion or by cogwheels and central rail), climbsup the Lebanon for about five thousand feet to a pointjust above Ain Safar. Thence it winds down to thevalley of the Bekaa, in which is Rayak gradients are very steep, and therefore even withthe rack and pinion system short trains are obliged togo very slowly. To the east of Rayak the railwaycontinues over the plain, until it is compelled to crossthe Anti-Lebanon, where the gradients, heavy enough. The Railways of Syria and Palestine From a map prepared by The Royal Geographical Society i THE BAGDAD RAILWAY AND THE WAR 305 to limit the load very closely, are not sufficient to neces-sitate at any point the use of the cogwheel the south of Damascus the French line, which isbelieved to have been taken up since the War in orderthat the material might be utilised for constructionelsewhere, ran practically parallel to and on the westof the Hedjaz line. We now come to the Hedjaz Railway, which is of gauge (adopted in order to correspond withthat of the Beirut-Damascus line, by which rollingstock, etc., had to be imported). Built by the Turksthemselves with the assistance of foreign engineers,and particularly with that of Meissner Pasha — avery able German — the railway, which starts fromDamascus and which is eight hundred and twentymiles long, was first opened as
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