Progress continues at the museum. Floor tiles are being laid in the newly renovated former refrigeration department at the Mombasa Rd end of the museum. This new section of the museum will include an office, gift shop, kitchen, lecture hall and more exhibition space.
Once it is finished, some of the exhibits will be moved in immediately so that the roof of the main existing museum can be replaced. The next step will then be to renovate the unused rooms at the Nairobi Station end of the museum to form a library, photographic studio (to deal with all the old photos and films in the museum) and other facilities.
There are plans to renovate 1950s restaurant car no 4516, which is in truly appalling condition since the roof rotted away, and use it as a static restaurant in the covered platform area behind the museum. Coach 1130, from the same era, will probably also be renovated and used for customers to sit whilst drinking their tea. There are rumours that once these coaches have been moved, the free space created will be filled with the steam crane which is currently languishing in the workshop.
Photos by John Ashworth, 6th October 2011
Nairobi Railway Museum October 2011
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- Museum Curator Maurice Barasa illustrates a point as we discuss how to dismantle and move the large elevation map on the end wall of the museum
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- The two lynch-pins of the Kenyan steam revival: businessman Francis Waweru (left) amd Museum Curator Maurice Barasa, discuss strategy in Maurice's new as-yet-unfinished office
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- Floor tiles being laid in the new lecture theatre
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- Restaurant car 4516 scheduled for renovation as a static restaurant for use in the museum
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- The coach will be renovated to look as authentic as possible, given the level of rain damage
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- The plan is to strip the kitchen and replace it with modern kit
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- 1st class coach 1130 is also scheduled for renovation
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- Some of the old films waiting to be transferred onto electronic media. Who knows what delights lie hidden therein?
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- A few items in Maurice's office, not on public display
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- Familiar faces
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- Pith helmet
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