Final UN annex records changes in the wartime railway fleet inventory

The mission used an oil-industry rule of thumb of $10,000 per barrel per day of capacity for replacing large plants. Its roughly $5 billion downstream rebuilding estimate was a coarse cross-check, not...

The annex warned of a sharply nonlinear replacement-cost curve for plants below 100,000 barrels per day. Its large-plant capacity benchmark therefore could not be applied uniformly to every refinery...

The mission converted the reported rial component at 300 rials per dollar in 1990 prices, obtaining about $729 million. Adding $4,098 million in foreign-exchange needs gave about $4,827 million,...

Iran’s single-track railway network grew from 4,570 kilometres in 1980 to 4,834 in 1988, the annex reported. Annual passengers rose from five million to 6.8 million; national growth coexisted with...

Iranian Railways carried 5.7 million tonnes of freight in 1980 and 12.5 million in 1988, the annex reported. Growth in national traffic did not establish that war-damaged lines and stations had...

Iran’s railway loss inventory listed 150 kilometres of lines as 100 percent damaged. The annex presented this government-reported physical measure separately from partial damage to buildings,...

The railway inventory listed 118,569 square metres of buildings with damage ranging from 20 to 100 percent. This was affected floor area across different damage levels, not an assertion that all...

The inventory listed 292 railway bridges and culverts at 85 percent damage, three major bridges at 42 percent and two at 24 percent. These government-reported categories distinguish damage levels...

The railway inventory listed communications and signalling damage of 100 percent over 120 kilometres, 55 percent over 107 kilometres, and 15 percent over 146 kilometres. These system measures differ...

Reported railway electrical-equipment and network damage was 100 percent over 120 kilometres, 45 percent over 107 kilometres, and 20 percent over 146 kilometres. Its damage grades differ from those...