ABSTRACT
This chapter is a compliance of a memorandum on Railway Development in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya submits that the railway development of the East African territories should now be pushed forward on co-operative and complementary, not on competitive lines, and that railway questions affecting more than one of the East African territories should be judged by geographical and economic convenience without too strict a regard for existing inter-colonial boundaries. From Kenya’s standpoint, however, the results of the war are up to the present even less satisfactory than they seem to be elsewhere. In addition to making certain specific investigations, Colonel Hammond was asked in the Secretary of State’s instructions ‘to advise on railway extension generally – regarding Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika as a single whole from the point of view of railway and harbour development.’.
