Work / monument · infrastructure
Uganda Railway
The Uganda Railway is a metre-gauge railway built by the British from 1896 to 1901 from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Kisumu on Lake Victoria. Built largely by labourers recruited from British India, some 2,500 of whom died, it opened the interior of East Africa to trade and settlement, led to the founding of Nairobi and became the backbone of the colony of Kenya.
Mentioned in 1 profile
Mentioned in 2 state histories
See also
Cite this entry
- APA
- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Uganda Railway. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/uganda-railway
- MLA
- “Uganda Railway.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/uganda-railway. Accessed .
- Chicago
- The Epoch Institute. “Uganda Railway.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/uganda-railway.
- Harvard
- The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Uganda Railway’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/uganda-railway (Accessed: ).
Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻