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Originally envisioned to extend to Kisangani, in line with the East Africa Railway Masterplan, the SGR project ran into political and financial hurdles, caused by Uganda's initial wait-and-see approach, [19] and Chinese hesitance to fund the Naivasha-Kisumu, Kisumu-Malaba, and Malaba-Kampala sections due to the Chinese economic crisis. Since ...
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 entire Malaba–Kampala section, measuring 273 kilometres (170 mi) with associated train stations and railway yards, is budgeted to cost US$2.3 billion. [6] Once funding is secured, the construction of the Eastern Line is expected to last 42 months.
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The A8 route was the most advanced road in Kenya at the time, with the Busia border crossing initially serving as the primary entry point between Kenya and Uganda. However, the Malaba border crossing later gained prominence. During the 1980s and 1990s, the A8 remained Kenya's primary paved road.
The SGR program is intended to replace the old, inefficient metre-gauge railway system. [9] The first segment of the SGR, between Mombasa and Nairobi, opened passenger rail service in June 2017, and freight rail service in January 2018. [10] [11]
Kisumu Line. In 2012, plans were developed to expand the system with a new railway that connects to other countries, namely Uganda, Rwanda, and possibly South Sudan and Ethiopia. [15] The new railway would be 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge. [16] Kenya had been negotiating with China to reconstruct the Nairobi-Mombasa section ...
The only existing break of gauge railway station within the reaches of the East African Railway Master Plan is the break of gauge transshipment station at Kidatu in Tanzania, which uses cranes for the transshipment of goods, especially containers, between the TAZARA Railway network (1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)) and the Tanzania Railways Corporation ...