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The Uganda Railway was originally built by the British to provide Uganda with access to the sea. Construction began at Mombasa in 1896 and reached Lake Victoria in 1901. The line was in part nicknamed the Lunatic Line after Henry Labouchère, a member of the British parliament, gave a mocking reply to the current British Foreign Minister support for the project in the form of a poem:
The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating the railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and building new railways to serve Rwanda and Burundi. The objective is to further the economic development of East Africa by increasing the efficiency and speed, and lowering the cost, of transporting cargo between major ports ...
By 2030, the railway line is expected to handle 30 daily trains to Juba and 52 to Addis Ababa. [6] In January 2024, Kenya Railways Corporation estimated that development of the railway projects would cost the government at least Ksh2.4 trillion (US$16 billion). The link from Lamu to Isiolo will cost Ksh523.05 billion (US$3.49 billion), while ...
Importers were forced to transport their cargo via Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) because of a deal signed by its previous government with the Export-Import Bank of China, documents show.
After independence, the railways in Kenya and Uganda fell into disrepair. In summer 2016, a reporter for The Economist magazine took the Lunatic Express from Nairobi to Mombasa. He found the railway to be in poor condition, departing 7 hours late and taking 24 hours for the journey. [ 20 ]
The Tsavo Man-Eaters were a pair of large man-eating male lions in the Tsavo region of Kenya, which were responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed dozens of people, with some early estimates reaching over a hundred deaths.
The original Uganda Railway was transformed into the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) after World War I.The EAR&H managed the railways of Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika until the collapse of the East African Community in 1977. [1]
The Kenya Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a partially finished railway system connecting Kenya's cities. Once completed, it will link the country to the neighboring country of Uganda , and through Uganda, to South Sudan , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Rwanda , and Burundi .