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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:
Rail transport in Kenya; Railway stations in Uganda; Railway stations in Tanzania; Railway stations in Rwanda; Railway stations in Burundi; Railway stations in South Sudan; Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply the European Rail Timetable. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, [ 3 ] and some of that content was moved into ...
The Uganda Standard Gauge Railway is a planned railway system linking the country to the neighboring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, as part of the East African Railway Master Plan. The new standard-gauge railway (SGR) is intended to replace the old, inefficient metre-gauge railway system. The ...
However, its significance waned with the construction of the Uganda Railway, leading to a shift in the main border crossing to Malaba, located slightly north. During the British colonial era, a network of roads was established, with the route via Kisumu being a notable one, although the more northerly route via Eldoret received greater attention.
This railway created a vital connection between the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa and Kisumu, later extended to Uganda, eliminating the need for lake crossings. The Kenyan highlands, a productive agricultural region with high population density and significant coffee and tea production, were already relatively developed during the colonial ...
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 ...