Tag: SGR
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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…
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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…
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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…