The international railway between Europe and India, as designed by Sir R. Macdonald Stephenson, deputy-chairman of the East Indian and South Indian Railways &c

extending from Constantinople to Herat and carried through or near Ismid, Angora, Sivas, Kharput, Moosh, Van, Khotoor (where the Persian frontier is crossed), Tabreez, Miana, Casveen, Sultanea, Teheran, and thence through the fertile plains at the foot of the Elburz Range to Herat, where it will join the prolongation of the Indian lines westward through Kandahar to Herat