Tag: Mombasa

• The ghost at the Railway Museum

  

  The sun was out last Sunday morning, but there was still a chill in the air. It was an indoors day. I decided to check out the Railway Museum near the old railway station; I hadn’t been there for years. As soon as I parked the car, a figure appeared from behind one of the…

  John Fox

  05/07/2022

  Travel

  Elspeth Huxley, Joseph Thomson, Kenya Railway, Lunatic Express, Mombasa, Nairobi, Railway Museum, SGR, Syokimau

• First Impressions of the Madaraka Express

  

  I never got round to using the old Nairobi-Mombasa passenger train. So I was quite sad reading about its final journey last year. It may have been a journey that took 17 hours, with frequent derailments, and in carriages that were uncomfortable and dirty, but it was a unique experience, with a rich and fascinating…

  Jan Fox

  28/10/2018

  Travel

  Lunatic Express, Madaraka Express, Mombasa, Mombasa Railway, Nairobi, Nairobi Terminus, Railway, SGR, Standard Gauge Railway, Train, Voi