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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...
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    built the Uganda Railway, which ended up costing taxpayers a total of £5,244,000. Unfortunately, the return on investment from the railway was not as...
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    north was the Uganda Railway. 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 Railways Corporation (URC) is the parastatal railway of Uganda. It was formed after the breakup of the East African Railways Corporation (EARC)...
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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...
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    Valley Railways (RVRC) managed the Kenya Railways Corporation's and the Uganda Railways Corporation's 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway systems...
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    Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to...
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    parallel to the narrow-gauge Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901 under British colonial rule. The East African Railway Master Plan provides for the...
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    approximately US$1.2 billion in 2019. In 1895, construction of the Uganda Railway began. The Imperial British East Africa Company awarded Alibhai Mulla...
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    The Protectorate of Uganda was a protectorate of the British Empire from 1894 to 1962. In 1893 the Imperial British East Africa Company transferred its...
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    Region of Uganda, located on the north shore of Lake Victoria. Jinja is in Jinja District, Busoga sub-region, in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is approximately...
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    original Uganda Railway was transformed into the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) after World War I. The EAR&H managed the railways of...
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  • Railway stations in Uganda include: Bungoma - last town in Kenya Malaba, Kenya (border) Malaba, Uganda Tororo - near Kenya border; junction for north line...
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    merging the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours with the Tanganyika Railway of the Tanganyika Territory. As well as running railways and harbours in the...
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    Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial centre of Lira District. Lira was one of the last towns in Uganda held by loyalists...
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    Kampala (redirect from Kampala, Uganda)
    /kɑːmˌpɑːlɑː-/ (UK: /kæmˈpɑːlə/, US: /kɑːmˈ-/) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,875,834 (2024) and is divided into...
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  • November 1938) was an English civil engineer, chief engineer of the Uganda Railway between 1895 and 1903 and responsible for the founding of Nairobi. Whitehouse...
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    the demise of the IBEAC. The British government eventually built the Uganda Railway to Kisumu on Lake Victoria, between 1896 and 1901. SS William Mackinnon...
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  • article describes the history of multiracial Ugandans in Uganda. Since colonialism, mixed-race people in Uganda have existed as a "product of Colonial history...
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  • In early August 1972, the President of Uganda Idi Amin ordered the expulsion of his country's Indian minority, giving them 90 days to leave the country...
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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...
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  • state-owned railway company Uganda Railways Corporation, parastatal railway of Uganda since 1977 Ugandans, the population of Uganda Culture of Uganda, a diverse...
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    Rift Valley Railways (RVR) was a consortium established to manage the parastatal railways of Kenya and Uganda. The consortium won the bid for private...
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  • Nairobi. The metre-gauge network runs to the Ugandan border, and the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, financed by a Chinese loan, reaches Suswa....
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    000 indentured labourers were recruited from India to construct the Uganda railway. The principal recruiting centre was Lahore, where coolies were engaged...
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    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...
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  • while working on the Uganda Railway. The railway reached Lake Victoria at Port Florence, now Kisumu, which at that time was in Uganda territory. It was separate...
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    Tsavo Man-Eaters (category Uganda Railway)
    responsible for the deaths of many construction workers on the Kenya-Uganda Railway between March and December 1898. The lion pair was said to have killed...
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    [citation needed] Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours, which operated railways in British East Africa and the Uganda Protectorate from 1929 to 1948...
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  • Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and his host, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, jointly, publicly committed to extend the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) to Kampala...
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