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Tanzania Railways Corporation. 59 class Garratt locomotive 5907 Mount Kinangop at Kibwezi in Kenya. The East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) is a defunct company that operated railways and harbours in East Africa from 1948 to 1977. It was formed in 1948 for the new East African High Commission by merging the Kenya and Uganda ...
The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating the railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and building new railways to serve Rwanda and Burundi. The objective is to further the economic development of East Africa by increasing the efficiency and speed, and lowering the cost, of transporting cargo between major ports ...
5918, 5930. The EAR 59 class is a class of oil-fired 1,000 mm (3 ft in) gauge 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt -type articulated steam locomotives. The 34 members of the class were built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in Manchester, England, for the East African Railways (EAR). They entered service in 1955–56, and were the largest, heaviest and most ...
The TR GA class, later known as the EAR 53 class, was a class of 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) gauge 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt -type articulated steam locomotives. The three members of the class were built in 1930 by Beyer, Peacock & Co. in Manchester, England, for the Tanganyika Railway (TR). They entered service in 1931, and, with one exception, were later ...
The East African Railways 4-8-2+2-8-4 59 class Garratts were the largest and most powerful steam locomotives to run on metre gauge, having a large 70-square-foot (6.5-square-metre) grate and a tractive effort of 83,350 pounds-force (370.76 kilonewtons). The 34 oil-fired locomotives remained in regular service until 1980.
It is a standard-gauge railway (SGR) in Kenya that connects the large Indian Ocean city of Mombasa with Nairobi, the country's capital and largest city. This SGR runs parallel to the narrow-gauge Uganda Railway that was completed in 1901 [3] under British colonial rule. The East African Railway Master Plan provides for the Mombasa–Nairobi SGR ...
East African Railways 13 class. The EAR 13 class was a class of 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) gauge 4-8-2 T steam locomotives built by North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, Scotland, for the East African Railways (EAR). [1] The 18 members of the class were built in 1952 and entered service in 1953. They were later converted into 4-8-4 T s, because ...
KUR: 162–223. EAR: 2401–2462. [1] The UR GD class, known later as the UR / KUR EB3 class, and later still as the EAR 24 class, was a class of 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives built for the Uganda Railway (UR). It was a larger and modified version of the earlier, experimental, UR GC class. [2]