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First Lady’s father steered first rail as CEO

More than 122 years ago, the Uganda Railway, after a painstaking four-and-a-half years in the Kenyan wild and Uganda was completed.

Despite it being one of the most labourious 20th Century infrastructure projects, no fanfare accompanied it to herald ‘a new dawn’ in transport.

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