EAST AFRICAN RAIL MUSEUM OPENS

What’s claimed to be the first ever railway museum has opened in Uganda to celebrate the history of the country’s railways. Located at the station in Jinja, the southern city on the shore of Lake Victoria, the museum celebrates the Uganda Railway, which was built from 1896-1901 by the British East Africa Company and stretched from Mombasa to Kisimu. Uganda’s railways played a fundamental role in the economic, colonial and postcolonial development of the country, and the museum will offer an insight into the country’s railway history for the first time.