Africa Railways - Uganda Railway - UR 2-6-0 steam locomotive Nr. 53 (Baldwin 16894 / 1899)

Uganda Railway B Class 2-6-0 Nr. 53 (Baldwin 16894 / 1899). The seat on the front suggests one of the trips made by a celebrity, possibly the occasion that Winston Churchill travelled the line. If that is the case it would be 1907

Roosevelt (1909) and others used the railway and that seat on occasions, the first ten years of the 20th century fits with the train composition. The seat still exists in the Nairobi Railway Museum

The order on Baldwin to supply 36 of these locomotives (numbered 35-70) was as a result of the 1897 engineering strike in Britain which caused delays on deliveries. They were used on passenger trains in their early days and the last three in main line service were withdrawn from Kisumu shed in 1926 after which they were used on the Uasin Gishu line construction. The last Baldwin was used until 1929 as the shed and station pilot at Nairobi

The designation B Class probably identified them as Baldwins

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Taken on: September 7, 2022

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