I'm bumping this forward from Post 12 because I think it shows how independent Hashemite Arabia would be IMHO.
On the subject of the railways I hope that it meant that they were developed to a much greater extent. What immediately spring to mind are:They won't withdraw completely. They will want commercial concessions including the oil and railways, air bases for the Imperial Air Route to India and the Far East, RAF bases such as were retained in Iraq and Jordan well into the 1950s IOTL, the right of British forces to cross Arabian territory and last but not least the Arab Army trained by the British Army.
- That the line along the Levant coast is completed in the 1930s instead of the 1940s. With no Arab-Israeli conflict this line should have been in continuous use for the last 80 years or more.
- The Berlin-Baghdad Railway was completed sooner. Plus it is extended into Kuwait, which AFAIK hasn't been done.
- The proposed Baghdad-Haifa Railway was built at the same time as the pipeline.
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