The Trans-Persian Railway Opening

Stretching some 1,400 kilometres, it was the first railway to unite the country, a legacy of Reza Shah.Although Iran, known as Persia at the time of his reign, already had a few hundred kilometres of railway lines in disparate parts of the country, they were insufficient to contribute to the modernization of this vast land. So the Shah had the first plans drafted in 1925 shortly after coming to power.