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.
Uganda Railway
Near Mombasa, about 1899
Reproduction poster of an advertisement for the railway. Note chopper coupling.
Uganda Railway is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge.
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 Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally modified equatorial climate. As of 2023, it has a population of around 49.6 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city of Kampala.
A caesarean section performed by indigenous healers in Kahura, in the kingdom of Bunyoro (present-day Uganda) as observed by medical missionary Robert William Felkin in 1879.
Construction of the Owen Falls Dam in Jinja
The Uganda printers building on Kampala Road, Kampala, Uganda
Grey Crowned Crane – a symbol of Uganda