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Permanent Way Vol 1 The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway Hill HC
Permanent Way Volume 1 The Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway By M F Hill
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1941, reprinted 1976
Approx 600 pages. Index followed by approx 9 pages of photos.
Being the official history of the development of the Transport System in Kenya and Uganda
Contents
PART I
East Africa before the Building of the Railway
I`Spheres of Influence'3
IIThe Advance to Uganda24
IIIDesign for a Railway and the Retention of Uganda46
IVSurvey and Report70
VMission and Decision95
PART II
The Building of the Railway
VI From Mombasa to Nairobi141
VII From Nairobi to the Lake192
PART III
The Building of a Colony
VIII The Start of Settlement247
IX Shaping Things to Come280
XSir Percy Girouard: and the Second Move of the Masai307
XI Progress and Problems320
XII The First German War, 1914-19344
PART IV
Between Two German Wars
XIII Post-war Problems377
XIVYears of Trial and Reorganisation: 1919-24402
XV The Railway reaches Uganda: the Gilded Years 1924-8443
XVIThe Great Depression and Years of Argument: 1929-39476
PART V
The Second German War . .. and After
XVII The Great Achievement529
PREFACE
ON December 11th, 1895, the late Sir George Whitehouse, K.C.B., stepped ashore at Mombasa to direct the building of a railway from the Indian Ocean to Victoria Nyanza. From a physical point of view the enterprise was great and the builders had to overcome immense and unforeseen difficulties: from the social, the economic or the political point of view the enterprise was even greater, for the building of the railway exercised a paramount influence on the history of East Africa.
The railway ensured that the influence of Great Britain's civilisation spread and was secured over a great tract of raw Africa. It made possible the retention of Uganda as a British Protectorate. In the words of Sir Edward Grigg, "The railway is the beginning of all history in Kenya . . . and it is the railway which created Kenya as a Colony of the Crown."
As soon as I was commissioned to write this book, I realised that it would lose significance unless the railway's story were written against the background of the history of British East Africa. The two are inextricably interwoven. The railway cannot be treated as a 'thing apart', although its administration has sometimes been accused of remoteness from the land and the people. Within its 'sphere of influence' the railway has made most things possible in East Africa. Without it there would have been no social nor economic nor political progress. Directly or indirectly, the railway has influenced all the controversies which have arisen from the British occupation of East Africa. In several cases the building, or the existence, of the railway has been the direct cause of controversy; for it made possible the development of the highlands of Kenya by white settlement and the spread of commerce through the native areas of Kenya and Uganda.
It has often been maintained that the real importance of history lies in the ideas which survive the event: that the important men, the real leaders of mankind, are the idealists who have played no direct part in affairs of State, but have changed the way of the world by the expression of their ideas and ideals.
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