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