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2. Nairobi Railway Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Nairobi Railway Museum is a railway museum in Nairobi, Kenya, adjacent to Nairobi railway station. Containing exhibits from the defunct East African Railways, it was opened in 1971 by East African Railways and Harbours Corporation. It is operated by Kenya Railways. [1] The museum has maintained its rail connection.

3. Nairobi railway station - Wikipedia

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   Nairobi railway station is a railway station located in Nairobi, Kenya. The station is on the metre gauge Uganda Railway , and previously provided services to Mombasa three times per week. [3] However, in 2017, the new Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway took over services to Mombasa, starting from a new Nairobi Terminus in Syokimau , 20km ...

4. EAR 59 class - Wikipedia

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   5918, 5930. The EAR 59 class is a class of oil-fired 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) gauge 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 powerful steam ...

5. List of railway museums - Wikipedia

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   Kyushu Railway History Museum, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. Ome Railway Park, in Ome, Tokyo. Otaru City General Museum, in Otaru, Hokkaido. Railway Museum in Saitama, Saitama. Romance Car Museum in Kanagawa [15] SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya. Shikoku Railway Cultural Center, in Saijō, Ehime.

6. Garratt locomotive - Wikipedia

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   The 34 oil-fired locomotives remained in regular service until 1980. As of 2020, the Nairobi Railway Museum held two of them. Mozambique. 4-6-4+4-6-4 and 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratts operated in Mozambique, some built as late as 1956. Rhodesia / Zimbabwe and Zambia

7. EAR 13 class - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

8. History of Nairobi - Wikipedia

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   The earliest account of Nairobi 's / naɪˈroʊbɪ / history dates back to 1899 when a railway depot was built in a brackish African swamp occupied by a pastoralist people, the Maasai, the sedentary Akamba people, as well as the agriculturalist Kikuyu people who were all displaced by the colonialists. The railway complex and the building around ...

9. KUR ED1 class - Wikipedia

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   TR: 11-14/103–106. EAR: 1101–1131. [1] The KUR ED1 class was a class of 1,000 mm ( 3 ft in) gauge 2-6-2 T steam locomotives built for the Kenya-Uganda Railway (KUR). [2] The first batch of 23 were built by Vulcan Foundry between 1926 and 1927. These were followed by further four built in 1929; one by W. G. Bagnall and three by Hunslet ...