Hill, F.M.

Permanent Way – The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway – Being the Official History of the Development of the Transport System in Kenya and Uganda. Foreword by Sir Reginald Robins, the Commissioner for Transport, East Africa High Commission.

Nairobi / Kenya, East African Railways and Harbours, [1949]. 20.5 cm x 25.5 cm. XII, 582 pages. 18 plates with fantastic monochrome photographs. 2 beautifully coloured fold-out maps within, showing 1. East Africa in 1892 with the proposed Railway / 2. East Africa in 1949 showing the Principal Land & Water Communications with finished Railways and Railways under construction. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and gilt design on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor stain to front board lower corner. Binding is firm and strong. Foxing and tanning to edges. Some occasional pencil-markings. Interior is otherwise tight, bright and clean.

Includes, for example, the following: Part I: East Africa before the Building of the Railway – ‘Spheres of Influence’ – The Advance to Uganda – Design for a Railway and the Retention of Uganda / Part II: The Building of the Railway – From Mombasa to Nairobi – From Nairobi to the Lake / Part III: The Building of a Colony – Sir Percy Girouard and the Second Move of the Maasai – The First German War, 1914-19 / Part IV: Between Two German Wars – The Great Depression and Years of Argument, 1929-39 / Part V: The Second German War … and After etc.

The book is the official history of the development of the railway, ports and inland waterways in Kenya and Uganda. It is “a record of human endeavour; not only of physical endurance, but also of the effort necessary to convince Parliament at the end of the last century of the necessity to open the country by the building of the railway, also of the endeavour of developing the railway, once it had been built, into an efficient transport system designed to serve the best interests of the people of East Africa.”

Also, loose leaf of ephemera – Daily Telegraph article from 25 March 1999 about a train derailment on the Nairobi to Mombasa railway that resulted in at least 32 deaths.

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120191AB

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