Rainer Fuchs e-mailed with links to two YouTube movies showing a British Pathe film of Iraq in 1954.

Part 1 shows one of the Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns streamlined pacific locomotives in action, along with a steam loco shunting in Basra, assorted buses and some BOAC aeroplanes.

Part 2 is more about the history. No railway content, but still worth a watch. They don’t film ’em like that anymore.