Athens-Cairo Railway

The Athens-Cairo Railway was a proposed railway project proposed in the Treaty of Baku by British, French, Russian and Greek delegates. It envisioned a massive railroad system stretching from Athens to Cairo, passing through the Ottoman Empire, Russian Armenia and Pontia, Assyria, Kurdistan, French Syria, British Mesopotamia, Palestine, Basra, Hejaz, El-Hasa and finally British Egypt. Production began in earnest, which, if completed would link Athens all the way to Egypt, the inner Nile and the Arab Peninsula.
While production did begin after the end of the Ottoman Revolution, it was slow moving and it wasn’t until the Cairo War that production fully stopped. That, combined with the collapse of Russia in 1925 left much of the railway system, now stretching into Anatolia, unfinished. In spite of this, France before they too fell into revolution restarted the project in Syria, before the new countries of Israel, Syria, Assyria and Kurdistan joined in. As of 1935, the railways now stretch from Athens to Pontia, as despite its revival, due to the economic depression seen after the collapse of Germany, Britain and America most countries did not have the funds to continue the project.
= History =
== Original proposition ==
== Production begins (1899-1914) ==
== The Great War (1914-1918) ==
== The Cairo War (1919-1921) ==
== Fall and revival (1922-1935) ==
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