NEW UGANDA RAILWAY
WILL OPEN BIG COTTON AREA TRAFFIC NEXT WEDNESDAY British Wireless—Press Assn.-Copyright Reed. noon. RUGBY. Thursday. The Colonial Office announces that the Tororo, Mbulamuti, Jinga and the Union of Kenya and Uganda railway will be opened to traffic on Wednesday next, and the large cotton-producing areaa 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 Kismau, 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 line. It then passes across the North Kavirondo district of Kenya, and joining the Uasin-Gishu railway connects with the old line at Nakuru. Mbulamuti is 106 miles from the Kenya-Uganda border. —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 9
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