This article is about the British colonial undertaking of 1896–1929. For Uganda's state railway since 1977, see Uganda Railways Corporation.
Uganda Railway Kenya Uganda Railways
Company type
Government-owned corporation
Founded
1895 (1895)
Defunct
1929 (1929)
Successor
Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours East African Railways & Harbours
Key people
Sir George Whitehouse
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The Uganda Railway was a metre-gauge railway system and former British state-owned railway company. The line linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya with the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa in Kenya. After a series of mergers and splits, the line is now in the hands of the Kenya Railways Corporation and the Uganda Railways Corporation.
The UgandaRailway was a metre-gauge railway system and former British state-owned railway company. The line linked the interiors of Uganda and Kenya...
built the UgandaRailway, which ended up costing taxpayers a total of £5,244,000. Unfortunately, the return on investment from the railway was not as...
north was the UgandaRailway. Eventually these networks were linked, so that today there is a continuous rail connection between Kampala, Uganda, on Lake Victoria...
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The Uganda Standard Gauge Railway is a planned railway system linking the country to the neighboring countries of Kenya, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of...
approximately US$1.2 billion in 2019. In 1895, construction of the UgandaRailway began. The Imperial British East Africa Company awarded Alibhai Mulla...
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South...
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of Uganda comprises the history of the people who inhabited the territory of present-day Uganda before the establishment of the Republic of Uganda, and...
original UgandaRailway was transformed into the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) after World War I. The EAR&H managed the railways of...
November 1938) was an English civil engineer, chief engineer of the UgandaRailway between 1895 and 1903 and responsible for the founding of Nairobi. Whitehouse...
Railway stations in Uganda include: Bungoma - last town in Kenya Malaba, Kenya (border) Malaba, Uganda Tororo - near Kenya border; junction for north line...
merging the Kenya and UgandaRailways and Harbours with the Tanganyika Railway of the Tanganyika Territory. As well as running railways and harbours in the...
article describes the history of multiracial Ugandans in Uganda. Since colonialism, mixed-race people in Uganda have existed as a "product of Colonial history...
Kenya and UgandaRailways and Harbours (KURH) ran harbours, railways and lake and river ferries in Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate from 26. February...
Kampala (UK: /kæmˈpɑːlə/, US: /kɑːmˈ-/) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,600 (2020) and is divided into...
Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and his host, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, jointly, publicly committed to extend the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Kampala...
under indentured labour contracts to work on the construction of the UgandaRailway. Most of the surviving Indians returned home, but 6,724 individuals...
Rift Valley Railways (RVR) was a consortium established to manage the parastatal railways of Kenya and Uganda. The consortium won the bid for private...
British India as indentured labourers, many of them to work on the Kenya–Ugandarailway. Others had arrived earlier by sea as traders. Today, the Indian community...
Nairobi. The metre-gauge network runs to the Ugandan border, and the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, financed by a Chinese loan, reaches Suswa....
the demise of the IBEAC. The British government eventually built the UgandaRailway to Kisumu on Lake Victoria, between 1896 and 1901. SS William Mackinnon...
and unpaved roads. Kenya's railway system links the nation's ports and major cities and connects Kenya with neighbouring Uganda. There are 15 airports with...
(3 ft 3+3⁄8 in). In 2018, two of the railway wharves, at Port Bell and Mwanza, were in use. The train ferries connect the UgandaRailway at Port Bell with the Tanzanian...