End of road for first railway that defined Kenya's history

Railway passangers aboard the first Kampala -bound train as the railways resumed services to Uganda following the revival of the East African Community

Railway building in Kenya, it would appear, has always triggered clouds of suspicion and controversy.

Like today's SGR, the first railway in Kenya started such a racket in the British parliament and press that it earned its infamous name, 'the Lunatic Express, as aptly described by writer and parliamentarian Henry Laboucher on July 30,1896.