NEW AFRICAN RAILWAY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 9

NEW AFRICAN RAILWAY

OPENING UP UGANDA Rugby, January 5. The Colonial Office announces that the Tororo, Mbulmuti, Jinga, and the Union of Kenya and Uganda railway will be opened to traffic on Wednesday’ next, and that the large cotton-produc-ing areas of Uganda will thus be provided with a direct, railway outlet to the coast Hitherto, communications from Uganda to the sea have been by way of steamer from one of the Lake Victoria ports, and Kismu, the former terminus of the Uganda railway. The new line, which has been constructed from a loan of £3,500,000 voted by Parliament in 1924, runs from Mbulamuti, on the port line running from Jinga, on Lake Victoria, to Mamasagali, on Lake Kioga, through one of the main cotton producing areas' to Tororo, near the Kenya border. The line then passes across the North Kavirondo district of Kenva and joining the UasinGishu railway, connects with the old line at Nakurtt. Mbutamuti is on the bank of Victoria Nile, and 10(5 miles from the Kenva-Uganda border. —British Official Wireless.