Final UN annex records graded damage to railway communications and signalling

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...

Between 1980 and 1988, freight wagons increased from 12,150 to 13,312, passenger coaches from 760 to 925, and locomotives from 418 to 531. These national inventories are distinct from counts of...

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...

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...

Iran listed 956 wagons damaged by 35–85 percent and 21 locomotives by 30–75 percent. The mission could not verify exact destroyed-equipment counts because damaged rolling stock had been cleared from...

Damage to the Qotur bridge near Turkey closed a major railway goods route to and from Turkey for several months, the annex reported. This trade interruption is distinct from the later inspection of...

Roads carried about 85 percent of domestic freight, the annex reported. Iran had over 2,000 road-transport companies, fewer than six percent government-owned, making road recovery central to goods...

Iran reported damaged roads of 1,533 kilometres in Khuzestan, 600 in Ilam, 845 in Bakhtaran, 555 in Kurdistan and 330 in Azarbayjan. These figures included main and feeder roads with minor bridges and...