Tag: SGR

• 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

• Exploring the Battlefields of Taita Taveta

  

  Before dawn on the 15th of August 1914, a column of 200 soldiers of the German Schutztruppe marched into the Taveta township and exchanged fire with a British East African Police Border Detachment. The corporal in charge of the police post, Murimi Mwiti, was killed as he resisted the German advance, becoming the first of […]

  Jan Fox

  21/10/2018

  Events, Travel

  Battlefield Safaris, Battlefield Tourism, East African Campaign, First World War, Guerrillas of Tsavo, James G Willson, Sarova Hotels, Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge, Sarova Taita Hills Game Lodge, SGR, Taita Hills, Taita Taveta County, Voi, WW1