1'Railpolitik': an introduction / Keith Neilson, T.G. Otte -- 1 -- 2 Railroads, the Prussian army, and the German way of war in the nineteenth century / Dennis E. Showalter -- 21 -- 3 'The most catastrophic question': railway development and military strategy in late imperial Russia / Anthony J. Heywood -- 45 -- 4 Sanjak of Novibazar Railway project / F.R. Bridge -- 68 -- 5 Railway-oceanic era, the India-China and India-Singapore railway schemes, and Siam / Nigel Brailey -- 94 -- 6 'The Baghdad railway of the Far East': the Tientsin-Yangtze railway and Anglo-German relations, 1898-1911 / T.G. Otte -- 112 -- 7 Lord Curzon and British strategic railways in Central Asia before, during and after the First World War / John Fisher -- 137 -- 8 Baghdad to Haifa railway: the culmination of railway planning for Imperial defence east of Suez / Keith Neilson -- 156 -- 9 Managing the hajj: Indian pilgrim traffic, public health and transportation in Arabia, 1918-1930 / Martin Thomas -- 173 -- 10 Barometer of war: British views of imperial security in the far east, Russo-Japanese relations and the Chinese Eastern railway, 1929-1935 / Greg Kennedy -- 192 -- 11 Swiss trans-Alpine railway lines: strategic railways and the strategy of deterrence / Neville Wylie -- 217.