Around Nairobi Station - May 2010
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Around Nairobi Station - May 2010
Assorted photos in and around Nairobi Station, by John Ashworth, 01 May 2010
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- A steam train stands in Platform 1, with 3020 facing Uganda and the camera facing Mombasa
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- Looking towards Uganda
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- A driver's eye view of Platform 1, from the footplate of 3020
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- Bride and groom make a sweeping entrance into Nairobi Station's rather grand lobby
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- Platform tickets - but unfortunately it was empty...
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- I'm not sure what this sign is about, as Port Florence was renamed Kisumu even before independence in 1963, I believe
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- Nairobi International
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- information board in the station lobby. NB: Trains to Kisumu resumed at the end of March 2010
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- Nairobi East signal box with its impressive semaphore signal gantry
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- The control point at the western end of the marshalling yard. They all seemed keen to take our photo...
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- The ground frame controlling the points into the museum
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- A poster expresses a sentiment we can all agree with
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Re: Around Nairobi Station - May 2010
A few more
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- The main road from Mombasa to DRC via Kampala effectively marks the western end of the marshalling yard and station area
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- Unfortunately we're not going to Kisumu or Kampala - just a shunting move under the bridge
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- Kenya railway police office
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