African Train - Kenya

February 1995
Train travel in Africa is unlike anywhere else. Locomotion, speed and reliability are variable in the extreme. When the Nairobi - Kampala rail link opened it was hailed as a breakthrough in Kenya-Uganda relations - it promised to open up central Africa as never before. The reality today is less grand. With frequent stops the train chugs its way past village traders towards the African interior. Sometimes it doesn't get there at all. On this occasion our reporter finishes his journey by road.

Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Africa
• Kenya
• Train
• Locomotion
• Transport
• Nairobi
• news
• documentary
• current affairs
• journeyman
• journeyman pictures

[BermudaEntrepreneur]

@Waypast2 There isn't! Go there and make some!

[Waypast2]

Ahhh wtf lol i started watching this video because i thought ther was graffiti on the trains :P

[25stammy]

my dad was one of those first railroad workers in kenya that is why Bella Bones was born in 1968 i am very proud of him i love trains but i left kenya when i was small i miss the good memories there i was born in mombasa wow

[25stammy]

my dad was one of those first railroad workers in kenya that is why Bella Bones was born in 1968 i am very proud of him i love trains but i left kenya when i was small i miss the good memories there

[decline2state]

@zonkozonko The problem I see with such a system is that, if the next train that approaches the block is traveling in the same direction, it must wait until a train comes from the opposite direction to bring the token back. On a lightly traveled line, delays would seem to be inevitable!

[odiodu]

If we are still on the train trip, RVR should be taken back By Kenya Railways and all the top managers told to go home

[rongenman]

wow fantastic scenery...

5 stars

[BahreNeGash]

@zonkozonko

Good you noticed Africans have been ALWAYS hospital to FORGEIN GUESTS, at times at the expence of their own good.

Hopefully, the hospitability of Africans is reciprocated by those who seek good in all.

[MzeeMoja1]

@zonkozonko

Sounds like you met with some very nice men.

[zonkozonko]

@MzeeMoja1 Mzee old man and Moja number one, well I have lived in Kenya and whilst in England, built Railway carriages still being used in Kenya. Whilst on one of my recent visits to Kisumu some fellow railway workers were more than happy to give me a cup of tea and take me down the track to look at the coaches we built in the 1990's As I said the Token system is shared the world over and a token is what it says What you use in Kenya or Africa may not be what we use but the Idea is the same!