Mombasa, Kenya

[rogerfarnworth]

You will probably have noticed on the forum that I have recently been focussing on the metre-gauge lines that served Kampala and Uganda from the East African coast at Mombasa. While doing research on the route of the Mombasa line, I came across photographs and, in particular, old postcards that showed traces of tramway or trolleyway in the streets of Mombasa in the late nineteenth century. I thought it needed more research and this blog is the result.

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/mombasa-kenya-a-very-early-tramway

[Edwardian]

 

You will probably have noticed on the forum that I have recently been focussing on the metre-gauge lines that served Kampala and Uganda from the East African coast at Mombasa. While doing research on the route of the Mombasa line, I came across photographs and, in particular, old postcards that showed traces of tramway or trolleyway in the streets of Mombasa in the late nineteenth century. I thought it needed more research and this blog is the result.

 

https://rogerfarnworth.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/mombasa-kenya-a-very-early-tramway

 

 

My wife recalls these still in operation in the '70s.

 

Fascinating pictures.