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enabled them to run through seasonal flooding on the Kigoma and Mpanda branches. EAR&H built further S118 from spare parts in 1953 and numbered it 2717. The EAR&H withdrew them from service in about 1965, and they were moved to
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In 1955 and 1956, the EAR&H introduced new and much more powerful steam locomotives for its Kenya and Uganda network: the
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Depot on its Tanganyika section. They entered service in 1949 and 1950, working the lines to
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and numbered them 2701โ€“2716, making them the 27 class and allocating them to its
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in 1948, and another eight in 1949. The EAR&H converted them to
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in 1956. In 1962, it completed the northern Uganda railway from
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where their light axle loading was an advantage and their high
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and from there to Arua in 1964, thus superseding the
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Index

East African Railways Corporation

Government-owned corporation
Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours
Tanganyika Railway
Kenya Railways Corporation
Uganda Railways Corporation
Tanzania Railways Corporation

59 class
Kibwezi
East African High Commission
Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours
Tanganyika Railway
Tanganyika Territory
Lake Victoria
Lake Kyoga
Lake Albert
Victoria Nile
Albert Nile

Malayan Railway
metre gauge
USATC S118 Class
steam locomotives
oil burners
Tabora
Mwanza
Kigoma
Mpanda

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