UGANDA
NEW RAILWAY OPEN TO TRAFFIC. DIRECT OUTLETFOR COTTON AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 6, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, Jan. 5. The Colonial Office announces that the Tororo, Mbulamuti, Jinga, and Union of Kenya and Uganda railwaywill be opened to traffic on Wednesday next. Large cotton-producing areas of Uganda will thus be provided with a direct railway outlet to the coast. Hitherto, communications from Uganda to the sea hpve been by way of steamer from one of the Lake Vic. toria ports and Mismu, the former terminus of the Uganda railway. The new line, which has been constructed from a loan of £3,500,000 voted byParliament in 192-4, runs from Mbulamuti, on the port line, and from Jingaon, Lake Victoria, to Mamasagali on Lake Kioga, through ono of the main cotton-producing areas to Torero, near the Kenya, on the border line, then passes across tho North Kavirondo district of Kenya and, joining the Masin Gishu railway, connects with the old line at Nakuru. Mbulamuti is on the bank of the Victoria Nile and 106 miles from the Kenya-Uganda border.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 5
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