Nairobi Railway Museum

[danji1]

@msalame grace

The America Transcontinental Railways was built in six years from 1863 to 1869 over a distance of 3000km

That’s fast. I wonder what’s the hold up in our country yet a machine was brought to lay the steel.

[system]

@Meria Mata

In 1898, railway workers in Tsavo, Kenya were terrorised by a pair of man-eating lions, who killed at least 28 people during a 10-month reign of terror. It ended in December when a British officer called Lt. Col. John H. Patterson killed both beasts. The man-eaters’ notorious exploits have been immortalised in no less than three Hollywood films, including most recently The Ghost and the Darkness. But despite their fame, no one is quite sure how many people they killed. The Ugandan Railway Company said 28; Patterson claimed it was 135.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2009/11/02/how-many-people-did-the-man-eating-lions-of-tsavo-actually-eat/

28 indians … the other hundreds were africans
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[danji1]

@Meria Mata

all Train records here,
sijui kama yetu itaweza.
http://www.railserve.com/stats_records/worlds_fastest_trains.html

Yaani with the Japanese Maglev you can travel from Nairobi to Mombasa, take madafu, then return within minutes. And do the same in the afternoon. Those trains!

[system]

@danji1

Yaani with the Japanese Maglev you can travel from Nairobi to Mombasa, take madafu, then return within minutes. And do the same in the afternoon. Those trains!

Isitoshe, they’re conducting R&D on a new, faster one expected to be deployed huko in the 2020s. Crazy speeds.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32391020

[system]

i like the Nairobi Railway Fb page … lots of info there. will visit it before sato
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[Ingia]

@msalame grace

Can you imagine that…in 1890 it took them only 5 years to reach Nairobi …IN 18 FUCKIN 90…and just one year to Kisumu…

And exactly 125 years later it’s taking us 4 years to do the same stretch…despite slll the technological advances…Yaani

Saa hiyo we were wandering around hunting and gathering and with technology not far from that of monkeys. And all the time thinking the train was some sort of a snake.
Anybody wondering why the white man first thought we were sub-humman?

[Ingia]

@Meria Mata

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:D:D:DHilarious…But they were maneless lions tho’

[Meria_Mata]

@Ingia

:D:D:DHilarious…But they were maneless lions tho’

sikupata mbisha nieka sketch

[Meria_Mata]

@Ingia

:D:D:DHilarious…But they were maneless lions tho’

sikupata mbisha nieka sketch

[kijanamrefu]

@msalame grace

"The Kenya – Uganda Railway was built by the Imperial British East Africa company back in the 1890s. Construction of the line began at the Kilindini Harbour in Mombasa in 1895. Around 1900, the line arrived at the present site of the city of Nairobi. Indeed, Nairobi owes its existence to railway engineers who drained a vast swamp, thus enabing the construction of permanent buildings. Indian labourers began commercial activities to cater for railway crews and colonial administrators. The railway arrived at Port Florence (Kisumu) around 1901.

That swamp that they drained…eh, where was it and how?

[danji1]

@kijanamrefu

That swamp that they drained…eh, where was it and how?

It’s that swamp that was flooding with rain water some weeks ago in the city. It’s the city.

[Ingia]

So its no wonder nairobi never drains and is visibly swampy in places that havent been built on. There are swamps all the way from Juja into the centre. In most of lower nairobi you cant dig two feet without encountering some impermeable rock. Thika road had to be excavated from some kind of rock.

[Mathaais]

taE=“nairobilay, post: 78510, member: 681”]@msalame grace these are the kind of mbichas i want to go and take
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These ones have been taken and posted here, wewe enda upige za SGR and post here.

[Mathaais]

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@msalame grace

Can you imagine that…in 1890 it took them only 5 years to reach Nairobi …IN 18 FUCKIN 90…and just one year to Kisumu… exactly 125 years later it’s taking us 4 years to do the same stretch…despite slll the technological advances…Yaani

There were no structures in the way of the planned railway route at the time, no farmers to be compensated, no power lines to be moved, no fencing of the railway line to keep away political uprooters like they are currently building in Mbotela, makongeni and Kibera. It was simply a matter of deciding where to lay the tracks mostly guided by the terrain and natural obstacles like hills and swamps.

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[Ingia]

me thinks hatuna excuse mingi. Na hiyo “America Transcontinental Railways”? Doesnt it mean we are some kind of jokers?

I have looked up that american stuff and the kind of effort, especially preliminary research and studies and it is an absolutely crazy amount of work. All the work was done with politics and having to purchase huge tracts of land.
Alafu ati hakukuwa na excavators or such machinery. so they literary dug trough mountains using shovel, pick, and wheelbarrow. Na punda saa ingine kuvuta mawe.

Americans have a reputation of doing their shit, no matter how challenging, in time though.

[Malaika_Firth]

@Mathice

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There were no structures in the way of the planned railway route at the time, no farmers to be compensated, no power lines to be moved, no fencing of the railway line to keep away political uprooters like they are currently building in Mbotela, makongeni and Kibera. It was simply a matter of deciding where to lay the tracks mostly guided by the terrain and natural obstacles like hills and swamps.

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What do you mean there were no farmers…from the coast to kisumu there were the Swahili,mijikenda,taita,Kamba,Maasai,kikuyu,kisii,Nandi , luhya and Luo farmers all through the railway line…and they resisted the iron snake fiercely, looted, attacked and refused their people to work on the line…in fact they either had to be tricked or parcified…( that’s the colonial narrative that the land was empty)

Mind you nearly 80% of the land where the railway will pass is either government land, or following the existing railway way leave less than 20% is to be acquired and owners compensated

The SGR will not be passing through mbotela, makongeni,kibera et al…the main railway station will be somewhere in embakasi…haitakuja town like this KR one…power lines sijui umetoa wapi hio…let alone fencing the lunatic express had to be protected by the British all along the way ndio isikuwe uprooted by my ancestors to make ornaments and weapons

were inafaa You visit the railway museum ujionee

[Malaika_Firth]

Come to think of it…it took months to bring iron from India and Europe to Kenya by steam ship…sahii it takes only a few days for a ship from China to Kenya bringing steel and what not…most raw materials zinapatikana hapa…with all the advantages of electricity , mechanisation what with bull dozers, lorries , compactors etc etc security, technological advancement in building, prior mapping and surveying of the proposed railway route, a big % of land is not buildup and is along the existing line except in major towns like Mombasa , voi, emali , machakos…I wonder how many years it will take ifike Malaba coz now Huko land is more settled

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