ABSTRACT
This chapter is a compilation of prospective railway development in British Equatorial Africa. A recently constructed cart road leads from Entebbe, via Kampala and Hoima, to Butiaba, a Government post on the Albert Nyanza, and from thence it is possible to descend the Nile (Bahr el Jebel) by boat, as far as Nimule, a post a few miles north of the junction of the Unyama with the former river. Sir Harry Johnstone, in his report on Uganda, suggests that a good cart road be constructed from Dufile to Gondokoro, ultimately to be followed by a light railway. Assuming that a reconnaissance of the country between Nimule and Gondokoro will prove that a line is practicable, it is obvious that railway plant and material, for however light a line, could not be brought up through the Sudan.
