The construction of the Uganda railway
Answer Text: The construction of the Uganda Railway-The railway construction works commenced in Mombasa in 1896. By 1901, the railway had reached Kisumu (then Port Florence) passing through Nairobi in 1899.-Numerous feeder lines were later laid down as follows;-The Nairobi –Thika Branch(1914), Konza –Magadi (1915), Voi- Moshi(1918), Rongai- Solai (1925), Eldoret-Kitale(1926), Eldoret- Jinja (1927), Gilgil-Nyahururu(1929), Thika- Nanyuki(1930) and Kisumu – Butere(1930)-In 1948, the Kenya Uganda Railway had been linked with the Tanganyika network to become the East African Railways.
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