Uganda Railways Corporation
Rail transport in Uganda is now mainly limited on two routes: the Uganda Railway to Kenya, which connects Uganda Nairobi Mombasa on the Indian Ocean and a remnant of the railway line Tororo - Arua mine.
History
On August 14, 1896, the British Parliament passed the legal and financial basis for railway construction from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria, which began in the same year. The course was built to meter gauge. It was modeled on Indian Railways, where also a part of the original material came from. On 1 October 1903, the responsibility for the Uganda Railway was transferred to the administration of the colony British East Africa (UR).
On February 26, 1926, the Uganda Railway in Kenya and Uganda Railway ( KUR ) was renamed in 1927 in Kenya and Uganda Railway and Harbours ( KUR & H).
On 1 May 1948, the Kenya and Uganda Railway and Harbours and the Tanganyika Railway and Port Services became the East African Railways and Harbours Administration ( EAR & H) and merged after the country's independence in 1963 in 1969 in East African Railways (EAR ) renamed. After the Customs and Economic Union between Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in 1977 broke up because of the widely differing political and economic systems, the part of the common rail, which was located on Ugandan territory in Uganda Railway Cooperation ( URC) has been renamed. Due to the dictatorship of Idi Amin and subsequent collapse of state structures in Uganda in 1979 had also a train service to be set. From 1986, he was then taken step by step. On 1 November 2006, the URC the same private operator, who took on the same day the Kenya Railways Cooperation ( KR ) was taken from the Rift Valley Railways Consortium.
Stretch
Meter gauge network
The first concrete plans for the construction of a railroad on Ugandan territory targeted from 1909 forward to connect the port Jinja on Lake Victoria and the Namasagali on Kiogasee together. The web was passed along the White Nile, was called Busoga Railway and was 93 km long. She went into operation in 1911. It also ran the ship traffic on the Kiogasee. In 1924 she was taken over by the Uganda Railway.
The construction of the Uganda railway started from Mombasa.
The Uganda Railway was opened from 1896 in sections. First, she was led to Kisumu (Kenya ) on Lake Victoria, which she reached in 1904. From there was connection with the railway belonging steamboats to Jinja and Kampala in Uganda. The railway line to there was only from 1923 continued to be built, quoting to the existing route in Nakuru ( 188.1 km from Nairobi ), they crossed the border into Uganda in 1926. In 1929, she was connected to the Busoga railway station in Mbulamuti. This stretch between Busembatia and Mbulamuti was replaced in 1961 by a much shorter route. The old track was established in 1962 for the direct traffic to Namasagali reconnected in Bukonte station, but completely abandoned in 1968. 1930 reached the Uganda Railway Kampala. In this case, the White Nile at Jinja was initially crossed with a ferry. The bridge was completed in 1931 and included the movement of trains over the bridge January 14, 1931. In 1952 the Ugandan government decided the route to Kasese ( 585.8 km ) to extend. This extension was opened in sections 1953-1958, but closed down in 1998.
The second major railway line in Uganda is the railway line Tororo - Arua mine, which branches off directly behind the border with Kenya in the north of the Uganda Railway.
Other tracks
A number of farms and mines were talking for internal purposes narrow gauge railways, mostly in the track width 610 mm, one in the track width 762 mm. In addition, there was a short monorail from Kampala to Luzira whose running time is specified differently with 1909-1912 and 1924.
Operation
The state of the routes in Uganda today is bad. Only the sections of Kampala to Port Bell on Lake Victoria, Kampala to Kenya and Tororo after Opit still be used for freight transport. Since 1993, the route was Tororo - Pakwach barely passable.
On September 14, 2013, the first commercial train ran on the continuous meter-gauge route from the Kenyan port of Mombasa via Nairobi and Eldoret to the Kenyan border in Tororo to Gulu and continue for 20 years.
Passenger will no longer take place in Uganda.
Planning
2007, have been examined, a railway network between Uganda and its neighbors, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan: to build, Kenya and Tanzania (now South Sudan ). The following year, a memorandum between Sudan and Uganda on the construction of a 920 km long railway line between Gulu ( on the railway line Tororo - Arua mine ) and Wau (now South Sudan ) was Nimule and Juba signed. This planning was a short time already obsolete later than October 27, 2008, the President of Kenya and Uganda, Mwai Kibaki and Yoweri Museveni a Joint Ministerial Commission began, to investigate whether the construction of a standard gauge railway line from the port of Mombasa to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan (now South Sudan ) is possible.