UGANDA RAILWAY
TRAFFIC EXPECTED NEXT WEEK.
LARGE Cl TRON-PRODUCING AREA WILL BE OPENED UP
LONDON, Jau. 5. Tile Colonial Office announces that the Tororo-Mb'ulamuti-Jinga and Union of Kenya and Uganda railway will be opened to traffic on AVednesday next, and the large cotton-pro-ducing areas of Uganda will tlus be provided with a direct railway cutlet to the coast. Hitherto communication trim Uganda to the sea has been by way of steamer from one of the Lake Yieloria 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 MbulamutL on the port line running from JTnga fo Lake Victoria to Mamauagali on Lake Kioga, through one of the main cotton-pro-ducing areas to Tororo, near the Kenya -border. The line then passes across tli'y North Kavirgondo district of Kenya, and joining the Uasin-Gishu railway, connects with the. olu line at Nakuru. Mbulainuti is on the bank of tlie A 7 ictoria Nile and is 106 miles from the Kenya-Ugunda. border.British Official Wireless.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10478, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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