With and without the famed Nairobi House and Woolworths Buildings. Both buildings razed down to ground being victims of fire caused by electric short circuiting !.
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A band plays at the launch of the RMS Victoria in Kisumu in 1961. She was built by Yarrow Shipbuilders at Scotstoun, Glasgow. She was then disassembled and exported to Mombasa in 1,500 crates and reassembled at Kisumu in 1961, a task led by EAR&H Chief Engineer, Christopher Hannington Jobita. When the ship was commissioned, Elizabeth II granted her the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) designation, the only EAR&H ship to receive this distinction. In 1977, when EAR&H was split between the three East African countries, RMS Victoria was transferred to Tanzania, and is now known as the MV Victoria.
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yaani boat ya 1961 is still operational???
Junction of Kenyatta Avenue and Moi Avenue. The building near left was urgently brought down by the owners when the government wanted to declare it a National monument. It was said to have been a prison in the Colonial days.
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Timboroa Station on 29 August 1971 - EAR passenger train
An East African Railways passenger train at Timboroa, on 29 August 1971. At 9,001 feet above the sea level, this is the highest train station on any line in the British Commonwealth
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The Kisumu Branch train on its journey on 30 August 1971, approaching Njoro
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the SGR is mostly straight or not long enough, while inside you cant see it snaking on the rails like we used to see this one and be able to take amazing mbishas.
The Queen Mother, accompanied by the Governor, Sir Evelyn Baring, at the ‘Equator, Altitude 8716 feet’ sign on Equator railway station. During her visit to Kenya in February 1959.
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Trains reaching the outskirts of Nairobi. 60 years ago and recent.
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juzi was surprised to see kids stoning the train to the SGR terminus at Makadara. The adults working a few meters from the kids were not bothered at all.
Mechanics students servicing the engine of a diesel electric locomotive; view down onto engine, which has the cylinder heads removed. Mechanical Engineering W/shops, Nairobi. 1960 [ATTACH=full]232047[/ATTACH]
This kind of faculty is no available in Kenya…jubilee has turned this country to have universities and colleges that produce dimwits and nincompoops who on believe in betting and luck!!!