SUDAN RAILWAY OPENED
MAKWAR (Sudan), Fob. 16
In a clearing in the dense forest growth of the Fung country, 1000 yards from the Dinder River, 100 guests of the Sudan Railway’s management this afternoon witnessed an object-lesson in pioneer African railway construction.
The last 100 yards of the last section of railway connecting the El Obeid gum trade centre at Gezira and Sennar with the Red Sea was built before their eyes. The Sudan railways ran two sleep-ing-ear express specials 200 miles to bring their guests to the scene of completion in previously inaccessible country.
When the last rail had been hud one bolt in the commemorative bronze fish-plate remained to be secured. Sir John Maffey, the Governor-General, stepped forward with a spanner and tightened it. Sir John remarked that the new liiie would double the traffic of the Sudan and bring the native population to a fertile territory before inaccessible and virtually uninhabited. After this the “line dear” for the first train was obtained from a tablet machine specially erected on this wild spot, and Lady Maffey handed the “way clear” tablet to the proud native driver. The Governor-General’s “special” then steamed north over the new track*
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 5
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198SUDAN RAILWAY OPENED Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1929, Page 5
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