Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Sider: 448
UDK: 600 Eng -gl.
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VIEW OF LINE IN MAU FOREST.
THE UGANDA RAILWAY.
BY HOWARD HENSMAN,
Author of
“A HISTORY OF RHODESIA" “ CECIL RHODES: A STUDY OF A CAREER," Etc.
THE first point that strikes one about
the Uganda Railway is that it does
not enter at any part the country
after which it is named. The name that was
originally suggested for the line was the Mom-
basa-Victoria Railway, and this would have
been a far more correct appellation. The
route of the railway is from the port and
island of Mombasa, on the north-east coast
of Africa, almost due north-west to Port
Florence, at the north-east corner of the great
Victoria Nyanza—with the exception of the
Caspian Sea and Lake Superior, the largest
inland sheet of water in the world.
dated July 2,
First
Suggestion
for the
Line.
The first direct suggestion for the creation
of this line is contained in “ The General Act
of the Brussels Conference/'
1890. This Act was subscribed
to by practically all the na-
tions of the civilized world,
and had for its principal object
the “ provision of effective
means for counteracting the slave trade in the
interior of Africa.” The means by which the
Powers hoped to bring about the suppression
of this iniquitous traffic were primarily the
construction of roads and railways connecting
the advanced trading posts and settlements