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This is obviously good news, but where is the money coming from. Not takings at the museum surely?i

On my vists to Nairobi i keep meaning to visit but time and traffic are always against it.

Reminds me of taking Amtrak from Pittsburgh to Detroit via Chicago a few years back. Union Station in Chicago is also a grand building not in keeping with the with the level of passenger train activity down in the basement. I enjoyed using Amtrak - though people in the US tend to look at you side ...

Dug out my old diary. The passenger boat from Kosti was very new with two large diesel engines, didn't carry vehicles but they accepted two motorbikes though we had to manhandle them ourselves across a number of barges to get them on the rear deck. The boat was overloaded with 'roof class' but no ...

Thanks for clarifying that...if I had known it was US iron I think I would have summed up the courage to go poke around and see if I could find/photo one!

Not a lot. We went through in May/June 1982 when the South was open (but Ethiopia was not). I've got shots of riding the tracks across the Nubian desert but all rather dark as it was very early in the morning to avoid the heat. Also buying petrol from the friendly signalman (asked me to taste it ...

Palin's TV account of his trip through the north of Sudan was perhaps the best part of the whole 'North to South' series. Certainly for me - I travelled by motor cycle deside this track in the eighties and even with sand drifts we still left the train far behind! Riding the roof would be a far ...

While visiting Abidjan last month spotted an ex SAR 33 class working in the docks. But things are looking up for the 1m gauge national rail system which runs inland to Burkina Faso as this article from UIC wed site clearly indicates. I presume the locos are from China (?)

Ivory Coast: Sitarail ...