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      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    Roger, do you know if there are still Any operational meter gauge steamers in kenya and Uganda? International steam and other sites claim so but there have Been No updates for some time and WIth The Chinese SG i Would think they have an uncertain future.
    Dangersdan707
    Hi, not sure. There were two locomotives in steam a few years back but I don't know the current position. Both were based in Nairobi at the Museum.
    Posted: 30 Dec 2018 19:12

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      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    At the end of 2020 I acquired copies of the 2 volume series compiled by M.F.Hill entitled 'Permanent Way'. These two books were produced for the East African Railways and Harbours, Nairobi, Kenya and, while being focussed on the Uganda Railway were as much a social and economic history of East Africa.

    This link will take you to some preliminary reflections which come from reading Hill's book and which I hope are not seen as being too far off topic:

    [color=#334466][size=2]http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/12/18/uganda-at-the-end-of-19th-century-and-the-events-leading-up-to-the-construction-of-the-uganda-railway[/size][/color]

    "In order to provide the context for the construction of the Uganda Railway, M.F. Hill saw it as imperative in his book to provide a social and economic history of the East African region. It is impossible for me to judge the veracity of what he writes, but it clearly is written from a British Colonial perspective. In addition to covering the strife between the European powers who sought to increase their influence in the Great  Lakes region of the continent of Africa, Hill provides extensive quotes from leading British figures in the region about the Uganda that they knew before the coming of the railway."
    Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:21
      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    The Uganda Railway at the beginning of 20th century.

    Further reflections on the Uganda Railway and the book, "Permanent Way" written by M.F. Hill.

    [color=#334466][size=2]http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/12/26/the-uganda-railway-at-the-beginning-of-20th-century[/size][/color]
    Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:22
      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    The Uganda Railway during the Great War. ...

    "The Uganda Railway" was essential to the sustenance of the East Africa Protectorate and the Uganda Protectorate during WW1. It suffered greatly from lack of maintenance during those critical years:

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2020/12/28/the-uganda-railway-during-the-first-world-war
    Posted: 06 Jan 2021 06:22

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      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    The Uganda Railway after WW1. .....

    In the years immediately after WW1, further European settlement was encouraged and 'European' electoral areas were set up. By 1921, the Census revealed the European population of the EAP to be 9,651 and the Indian population to be 22,822. ..........

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/01/08/the-uganda-railway-in-the-first-5-years-after-world-war-1
    Posted: 07 Feb 2021 23:49
      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    The Uganda Railway and it's Gilded Years - 1924-1928

    The railway saw significant increases in turnover and working profit in the years prior to the Great Depression

    http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/06/the-uganda-railway-the-gilded-years-1924-1928
    Posted: 07 Feb 2021 23:50
      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    Sugar Factory Branches near Kisumu, Kenya

    An on-line acquaintance has recently pointed out that the tenth article in this series about the Uganda Railway is incomplete in that it omits to cover two branch-lines which serve Sugar Cane Mills/Factories. I have returned to the trip along the Uganda Railway to complete the omitted part of the story - that of the Chemelil and Miwani Sugar Factory Branches. ........

    On the final approaches to Kisumu the line passed through a significant sugar cane growing region. Sugar processing factories were set up in two locations along the line - Chemelil and Miwani. Both these locations were provided with short branch-line connections to the main Nakuru to Kisumu line.

    [color=#c96d37]https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/03/24/uganda-railways-part-10a-west-of-nakuru-sugar-factory-branches-on-the-approach-to-kisumu[/color]
    Posted: 26 Mar 2021 01:12
      rogerfarnworth Train Controller
    Posted: 26 Mar 2021 01:16
      rogerfarnworth Train Controller

    This is the last post based around the book by M.F. Hill which was published in 1949 just as the Tanganyika and Kenya/Uganda networks became one organisation. It cover the Second World War and the few years immediately after. .....

    [color=#0094d1][size=2][font=Verdana, Arial, sans-serif][b]https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/03/...s-and-harbours-the-second-world-war-and-after[/b][/font][/size][/color]
    Posted: 30 Mar 2021 23:52

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