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high court and military officials. As he was ultimately involved in the income of the railway through the concession, he agreed. Naser al-Din Shah's advertising tour was initially a complete success and the railway finally found the popularity expected by the investors. However, some pilgrim accidents and a mullah who died on the railway were soon to provoke the anger of the clergy. The railway was denigrated as "satanic" and its use demonized. For the
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over his head and said that he had undoubtedly miscalculated and that the cost would have to be 30,000 tomans, otherwise it would be preferable to abandon the whole thing." Gasteiger remained steadfast in his calculations and refused to include the bribes for the court official in his calculations, and so the railroad project was put on hold for the next 25 years.
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much more convenient, instead of developing industry and business themselves, to conclude concession agreements with foreign companies and to concentrate on collecting concession income. Boital monetized the concession, which included the right to build and operate railroads throughout Persia for 99 years, and sold it to the
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Nights here, but in reality it was a broken state that was completely devastated." This was due to the apparent disinterest of the Qajar rulers to develop the country and instead only think about increasing their own wealth. In
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for this purpose. Only after much back and forth did the Munich magistrate decide to apply for Otlet and grant him a 30-year license. He then had to pay 1% of his gross income to the municipality for the use of urban roadside. After a dispute with the Munich city council, Otlet was forced to sell his
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in Vienna in 6 months , then he left Vienna on July 17, 1860 and reached Tehran on
September 30. When he arrived in Tehran, he quickly realized that he had been mistaken in his opinion about the culture of the Persians. "In Europe at that time people still believed to find a country from the Arabian
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gare'. Instead of using the train, the pilgrims preferred to walk the 9 kilometers from Tehran to Rey as before, so that the whole enterprise became a financial disaster. The
Belgian managing directors complained to Naser al-Din Shah and persuaded him to demonstratively take the train together with
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in Rey, nine kilometers away, a much-visited place of pilgrimage. He calculated the cost of building the railway with a deployment of 1,000 men and a construction period of three months at 18,000 tomans. Gasteiger hadn't expected what would happen next. "A senior
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was built with three waiting rooms, one for men and one for women, with a hall in between for the Shah. The line was completed on May 31, 1888, and rail operations began in July 1888. The railway staff consisted of 5 European and 60 Persian employees. The locals called the railway
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In Persia, Otlet expected high profits. Since about 300,000 pilgrims visited the Shrine of Abdol-Azim annually, it seemed obvious to start building this route. A track width of 800 mm was chosen and a single-track stretch was laid from the
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in 1851, the first technical university in Iran based on the western model. The Austro-Hungarian railway engineer, Albert Joseph
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were approached and enthusiastically accepted the order to build a railway in Persia. He learned
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