Reference Sources for East African Railways

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Reference Sources for East African Railways

This page is to assist in research on East African Railways. Please also reference our general African page for further ideas.

It has been decided to cover Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar in one document given their interlinked history. There will also be a separate section for items that are country specific.

Firstly, a word of warning, there has been a spate in recent years of people finding books that are out of copyright, OCR’ing them and offering the copies for sale. Admittedly they do warn that the copies may not be perfect. The Trust brought a copy of a French book on African Colonial Railways that is extremely rare but found that no more than 25% of the pages were legible.

East Africa has an overall detailed but dated history of its railways.

On this page, the term East African Railways is an overarching cover for the current Kenyan, Ugandan and Tanzanian Railways, and their various constituents.

Some of the titles below are available in the British Library and can be found by searching their catalogue.

Journal articles listed should be available through JSTOR or appropriate online sources.

In producing these research files use has been made of the following reference source: TRANSPORT RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY, Gordon Pirie, African Centre for Cities University of Cape Town December 2018, however much additional material has been added.

East African Railways and Harbours (mccrow.org.uk)
Would appear to be a site of interest.

The Historical Association of Kenya produced the Kenya Historical Review from 1973-78. Copies are available in the British Library.

Tanganyika Notes and Records was started in 1936 by what was then the Tanganyika Society, becoming Tanzanian Notes and Records upon independence and continued until 1985. Editions up to 1951 are available through https://gallica.bnf.fr/ and the School of Oriental and African Studies has some.

The Uganda Society (upenn.edu)

In 1923 The Uganda Literary and Scientific Society was established at Entebbe. Its main activity consisted of the reading of papers and the delivery of lectures on topics relating to Uganda. The Society headquarters were movedto Kampala in 1933 and a decision was taken to issue a regular publication, The Uganda Journal. The journal's declared aim was "to collect and publish information which may add to our knowledge of Uganda and to record that which in the course of time might be lost." Four issues per year were published, beginning in January 1934. Each issue was to contain three or four substantial articles, along with a series of short notes, as well as letters and reviews. The Uganda Literary and Scientific Society later changed its name to the Uganda Society. Fortunately, the Journals are available on-line at The Uganda Journal. | Library of Congress (loc.gov)

The East African Railways and Harbours Administration produced a staff magazine from June 1952 until February 1961 when it was renamed Spear which continued at least until the incorporation of the EAR Corporation in approximately 1969.

The Kenyan Railway Museum is located in Nairobi off Workshop Road close to the railway station. It has a Facebook page Nairobi Railway Museum - Home | Facebook It has issued Guides to the Museum in 1978 and 1983.

Tanzania does not have a railway museum

The Ugandan Railway Museum is located at Jinja Station and was opened in May 2022, it does not appear to have a functioned webpage. In 2021 a book was published in Uganda possibly by the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda, called Our Railway, Our History, nothing more is known.

Books and Journal Articles on East African Railways

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Amin, Mohamed, Willetts, Duncan, and Matheson, Alastair	Railways Across the Equator: the Story of the East African Line	1986	Bodley Head	London
Anon	A Plan for the Mechanical Production of Groundnuts in East and Central Africa	1947	H.M.S.O.	London
Anon	Description of living conditions and operations against German East African Railway	1915			in BL catalogue
Anon	East African Locomotives	C1970	East African Railways and Harbours	Nairobi
Anon	Handbook of Railways in Africa	1919	Naval Intelligence Department, The Admiralty	London
Anon	Rail-served Industrial Areas of East Africa	1961	East African Railways and Harbours	Nairobi
Anon	Report on an Engineering Survey of a Rail Link between the East African and Rhodesian Railway Systems	1952	East African Railways and Harbours	Nairobi
Anon	The Economy of East Africa. A study of trends	1955	Prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit ... for the East African Railways and Harbours Administration	Nairobi
Anon	The future of the Overseas Food Corporation	1951	H.M.S.O.	London
Anon	The Uganda railway, British East Africa from Mombasa to Lake Victoria Nyanza 1911	2019	Facsimile Published		Probable modern reprint
Beckenham, Arthur F	Wagons of Smoke: An Informal History of the East African Railways and Harbours Administration 1948–1961	1987	Cadogan Publications	London
BENTLEY, Ernest Lungley	Handbook to the Uganda Question and proposed East Africa Railway	1892	Chapman & Hall	London
Brookfield, Harold C	New railroad and port development in East and Central Africa	1955	Economic Geography, 31 (1), 60-70
Bulman, WE	Tanganyika Trains	1961	SPEAR, Vol. 5 No.6 129-133
Bulman, WE	The Development of Motive Power on the EAR&H	1958	Journal of the East African Institution of Engineers	Vol. 8, No. 3 82-93
Burton, David	THE GROUNDNUT LINE	2014	published privately by the author
Capenny, SHF	Railway schemes in relation to British Central Africa	1901	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 17, 363-377
Carvalho, Selma	A railway runs through : [Goans of the British East Africa, 1865-1980]	2014	Matador,	Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire
Christy, C	The Cape-to-Cairo railway	1924	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 40, 331-334
Cook, DB, Jaipal, PK, Samankay, AR (eds).	Engineer in East Africa - 25 Years of progress	1972	University Press of Africa	Nairobi
Cotts, William Dingwall Mitchell, Sir, Bart.	The Shippers' Guide to South and East Africa. With coloured railway map	1897	Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co	London
Due, John F	The problems of rail transport in tropical Africa	1979	Journal of Developing Areas, 13, 365-374.
Due, John F	Some Observations on Rail and Road Transport in Commonwealth Tropical Africa	1977	In Transportation Research Paper No. 14. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois
Due, John F	The economic viability of the railways of tropical Africa	1980	Journal of Development Economics, 7 (2), 263-272
Elges, EF	North to Bulawayo and Beyond: the Study of the Cape to Cairo Railway	1967	MA, Wesleyan University.
Farquharson, James Robbie	Railway and port problems in East Africa	1950	Conference on Civil Engineering Problems in the Colonies	London
Farquharson, James Robbie	The role of railways in developing countries	1962	Conference on Civil Engineering Problems Overseas	London
Farquharson, Sir James	Railways in East Africa and the Sudan	1984	Oxford University Symposium, No.8 Africa in the Colonial Period, Transport and Communications
Fox, H Wilson	The Cape-to-Cairo railway and train ferries: development of the Great Lakes of Africa by train ferries	1920	Geographical Journal, 55 (2), 73-101.
FoxLee, Richard William	The railway gauge problem of tropical Africa	1948	In Conference on Civil Engineering Problems in The Colonies, pp. 61-73. Institute of Civil Engineers.
Grey, Olive	Picturesque British East Africa. Along the Uganda railway	1902	Palmer & Grey	Mombasa
Griffiths, Ieuan L	'Web of Steel': the development of the railways	1986	Geographical Magazine, 58, 512-517
Grillo, Ralph D	African Railwaymen: a Study of the Labour Force Employed by East African Railways and Harbours	1968	PhD, Cambridge University
Grillo, Ralph D	African Railwaymen: Solidarity and Opposition in an East African Labour Force	1973	Cambridge University Press	Cambridge
Grillo, Ralph D	Status and reputation on the African railway	1974	New Society, 204-206.
Hammond, Frederick Dawson, Lt-Col.	Report on the Railway Systems of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika	1921	Crown Agents		Two parts
Hanes, W Travis	Railway politics and imperialism in central Africa, 1889-1953	1991	In Railway Imperialism, edited by Clarence B. Davis, Kenneth E. Wilburn and Ronald E. Robinson, pp. 41-70. Greenwood.	Westport
Hardy, Ronald	The Iron Snake	1965	Collins	London
Hazlewood, Arthur Dennis	Rail and Road in East Africa	1964	Transport Co-ordination in Underdeveloped Countries, Blackwell	Oxford
Hicks, Agnes H	THE STORY OF THE FORESTAL	1956	Forestal Land etc Co	London
Hill, Mervyn Frederick	Magadi	1964	Kynoch Press for Magadi Soda Co.	Birmingham
Hill, Mervyn Frederick	Permanent Way – Volume II, The Story of The Tanganyika Railways	1957	East African Railways and Harbours	Nairobi
Hill, Mervyn Frederick	Permanent Way: Volume 1. the Story of the Kenya and Uganda Railway	1950	East African Harbours and Railways	Nairobi	This is Vol.1 there is a second volume that deals with Tanganyika. Vol 1 was revised in 1961.
Hoyle, Brian Stewart	Recent changes in the pattern of East African railways	1963	Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 54 (11), 237- 242.
Hyde, David	The East African Railway Strike, 1959-60: labour's challenge of inter-territorialism	2016	Labor history. Volume 57:Number 1 (2016); pp 71-91
Jedwab, Rémi, Kerby, Edward, and Moradi, Alexander	History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya	2014	CSAE Working Paper WPS/2014/2014-04.
KUR,	KUR Oil Burning Locomotives questions and Answers	1948	KUR,	Nairobi
Lewin, PE	Railways in East Africa	1912	Field, (May), 18-25
Macharia, D	The Role of Railway Transportation in the Economic Development of East Africa	1966	Occasional Paper No 20, Program of East African Studies, Syracuse University.
Macharia, D	The Role of Railway Transportation in the Economic Development of East Africa	1966	Occasional Paper No 20, Program of East African Studies, Syracuse University.
Mance, HO Brig-Gen	Report on Co-ordination of Transport in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika Territory	1937		Nairobi
Martin, EM	The History of Malindi	1973	EAR Literature Bureau	Nairobi, Kampala, Dar-es-Salaam
Miller, Charles	Battle for The Bundu, The First World War in East Africa	1974	Macdonald	London
Mills, Stephen & Young, Brian	A Railway to Nowhere: the building of the Lunatic Line 1896-1901	2012	Mills Publishing	Nairobi
Moyna, EGJ	Trip up Uganda railway	1904	Blackwoods Magazine, May, 608-617.
Munro, John Forbes	Shipping subsidies and railway guarantees: William Mackinnon, eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, 1860-1893	1987	Journal of African History, 28 (2), 209-230
Musuva, JK	The need for inter-railway cooperation in East Africa and beyond	1995-6	Rail international. English edition.; Freight railways: markets, quality and profitability; Cape Town, 1995; Nov, 1996, 80-82 -- IRCA; 1996 Part: Part 2/3; (pages 80-82) – 1996	Cape Town
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	Resurrecting the “Lunatic Line”: an examination of the place and performance of Kenya Railways in the political economy of post-colonial Kenya	2009	Maarifa: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Moi University), 3 (1), 67-81.
Naranch, Bradley D	"Colonized body”, “Oriental machine”: debating race, railroads, and the politics of deconstruction in Germany and East Africa, 1906–1910	2000	Central European History, 33 (3), 299-338.
Northcott, CH (ed.)	African Labour Efficiency Survey	1949	Colonial Office, HMSO,,	London
O'Connor, Anthony Michael	East African railway developments.	1964	East African Geographical Review, 2, 46-47
O'Connor, Anthony Michael	New railway construction and the pattern of economic development in East Africa	1965	Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 36, 21-30.
Orpen, N and Martin, HJ	Salute The Sappers Part 1 The Formation of The South African Engineer Corps and its Operations in East Africa and The Middle East to The Battle of Alamein	1981	Sappers Association	Johannesburg
Patience, Kevin	Steam in East Africa	1976	Heinemann	Nairobi
Patterson, JH	The maneaters of Tsavo	1907	MacMillan	London
Pauling and Co. Ltd	The Works of Pauling and Co. Ltd	1930	London
Preston, RO	Descending the Great Rift Valley : East Africa's Stupendous Engineering Feat	1942	Preston's Publications	Nairobi
Rainbow, JJ, & Paul E Waters (eds)	British Military Railways Overseas in the Great War,	2018	BORHT	London
Ramaer R	Gari la Moshi : Steam Locomotives of the East African Railways	2009	Stenvalls	Malmo
RAMAER, Roeland	Steam locomotives of the East African Railways	1974	David and Charles	Newton Abbot
Ravndal, GB	The Cape to Cairo railway	1902	Liberia Bulletin, 21, 7-9
Reichart-Burikukiye, Christiane	The railway in colonial East Africa: colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology	2012	In Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Post Africa, edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell, pp. 62-83, Routledge	Abingdon
Samson, PJ, Ed	The Conquest of German East, being the Special Commemoration Number of “The Nonquai”, the South African Services Magazine	1917	Pretoria
Sandes, EWC, Lt-Col.	Indian Sappers and Miners,	1948	The Institution of Royal Engineers	Chatham
Schroeter, Helmut & Ramaer, Roel	Die eisenbahnen in den einst deutschen Schutzgebeiten - Damals und Heute/German Colonial Railways, Then and Now	1993	Röhr-Verlag	Krefeld
Shepstone, HJ	Cape to Cairo railroad	1912	Westminster, 21, 83-91
Shepstone, HJ	Railway building in central Africa	1913/14	Boy's Own Annual, 36, 428-431
SINGH, KUNDI, CHARAN	Steam Safari with East African Railways : Locomotive 5918	2003	Majestic Printing	Nairobi
Smith, David	The East Africa Campaign 1914–18 : Von Lettow-Vorbeck's Masterpiece	2022	Osprey Publishing	London
Sood, Satya V	Victoria’s Tin Dragon: A Railway that Built a Nation	2007	Vanguard Press	Cambridge
Stead, William Thomas	The Cape to Cairo railway	1899	Windsor Magazine, 363-374.
Sunderland, David, ed., ; advisory editor, Uzoigwe, Godfrey N	Communications in Africa, 1880-1939. volume 1, Railways : proposals	2018	Routledge	London
Swift, M	At War in East Africa	1980	The Narrow Gauge No. 86, Winter 1979-80, p 20-23
Talbot, E	Steam from Kenya to the Cape
Talbot, E	Steam from Kenya to the Cape : an enthusiast's guide to the steam locomotives of East, Central and South Africa	1975	Continental Railway Circle	Harrow
Temple, RC	A parliamentary view of the Uganda-Nairobi railway	1892	Fortnightly Review, 705-715
Watson, C Major, R. E	History of the Railway Corps East African Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919	1919	WO 32/5830 in the National Archives
Whang, Patrick Y	Regional derailment: the saga of the East African Railways	2018	Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12 (4), 716-734
Whitehouse, GC	The building of the Kenya and Uganda railway	1948	Uganda Journal, 12, 1-15
Williams, Alan	African Steam Safari: Kisumu to The Great Karoo	2019	Australian Railway Enthusiast Limited,	Australia,
Williams, Alan	African Steam Safari: Luxor to Sir Lowry's Pass	2020	Association of Railway Enthusiasts	Australia
Wood, Alan	The Groundnut Affair	1950	The Bodley Head	London
Woodhouse, HL, Captain, M.C., R.E	Notes on Railway Work in East Africa, 1914-1918	1923	Royal Engineers Journal, March 1923, pp. 37-46, p.42

Kenyan Railway Books and Journal Articles

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Basu, Pratyusha	Kenya's regional ambitions or China's Belt‐and‐Road? News media representations of the Mombasa‐Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway	2021	Singapore journal of tropical geography. Volume 42:Issue 1 (2021); pp 45-64
Cundill, MA	Road-Rail Competition for Freight Traffic in Kenya	1986	Overseas Unit, Transport and Road Research Laboratory.	Crowthorne
Dowdney, RFS	The Uasin-Gishu railway: highest line in the empire, primal homage to civilisation	1923	African World, 293-294
Elliot, JG	The Magadi Railway	1914	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 30 (2), 78-83.
Gunston, Henry	How Magadi Soda got to the Indian Ocean	1981	ICI Magazine, Sept-Oct, 1981, 115-119
Gunston, Henry and R McDonald	Street Trollies in Mombasa	1989	Kenya Past and Present, Issue 21 36-41
Irandu, Evaristus M	The bus and rail commuter services: the need for an alternative transport planning	1988	Paper presented at the First International Conference on Urban Growth and Spatial Planning of Nairobi, Kenya,
Jedwab, Remi, Kerby, Edward, and Moradi, Alexander	History, path dependence and development: evidence from colonial railways, settlers and cities in Kenya	2017	Economic Journal, 127 (603), 1467-1494
Jedwab, Rémi, Kerby, Edward, and Moradi, Alexander	History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya	2014	CSAE Working Paper WPS/2014/2014-04.
Kapila, Neera, Dr	Race, Rail & Society - Roots Of Modern Kenya	2009	East African Educational Publishers Ltd	Nairobi
Kenya Railway Realignment Committee	Report of a Committee on Railway Realignment	1947	Government Printer	Nairobi
Kenya Railways	The Kenya Railways Museum Nairobi	1984	Kenya Railways Museum	Nairobi
Klopp, Jacqueline M, and Makajuma, George	Transportation infrastructure integration in East Africa in a historical context	2016	In Linking Networks: The Formation of Common Standards and Visions for Infrastructure Development, edited by Martin Schiefelbusch and Hans Liudger Dienel,
Lewis, J	Railways and regional underdevelopment: the case of Kenya, 1903-1939	1976	Paper presented at the Institute of British Geographers Conference, Lanchester Polytechnic.
Maxon, Robert M.	African production and the support of European settlement in Kenya: the Uasin Gishu-Mumias railway scheme, 1911-14	1985	Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 14 (1), 42-64.
Miller, Charles	The Lunatic Express	1971	Macmillan	New York
Mnjama, Nathan Mawkoshi	Railway records as a source of information for the study of Kenyan history	1993	African Research and Documentation, 63, 1-12.
Mnjama, Nathan Mawkoshi	Railway records: their management and exploitation in Kenya	1994	PhD, University of London (UCL).
Munro, John Forbes	Shipping subsidies and railway guarantees: William Mackinnon, eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, 1860-1893	1987	Journal of African History, 28 (2), 209-230.
Mutambatsere, E., Nalikka, A., Pal, M., et al.	What role for multilateral development banks in project finance? Some thoughts from the Rift Valley Railways in Kenya and Uganda	2013	Journal of Infrastructure Development, 5 (1), 1-20.
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	Ewart Scott Grogan and Politics of Railway Development in Kenya: the Case of Uasin Gishu Railway, 1901-1930	2010	VDM Verlag	Berlin
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	Kenya's "forgotten" engineer and colonial proconsul: Sir Percy Girouard and Departmental railway construction in Africa, 1896-1912	2006	Canadian Journal of History, 41 (1), 1-22
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	Malnutrition, poor housing and disease: the woes of Tanganyika migrant laborers during the construction of the Uasin-Gishu Railway, 1922-1923	2012	International Journal of Current Research, 4 (4), 289-296.
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	Political Economy of Railway Extensions in Kenya: the Case of the Uasin Gishu Plateau, 1901-1930	2005	PhD, History, West Virginia University, Morgantown.
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	Resurrecting the “Lunatic Line”: an examination of the place and performance of Kenya Railways in the political economy of post-colonial Kenya	2009	Maarifa: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Moi University), 3 (1), 67-81.
Mwaruvie, John Mwaniki	The political economy of railway construction in Kenya, 1895-1930	2009	In Studies in the Economic History of Kenya: Land, Water, Railways, Education and Entrepreneurship, edited by Maurice Nyamanga Amutabi. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press.
Nowrojee, Pheroze	A Kenyan Journey	2019	Manqa Books	United States
Okita‐Ouma, Benson	Effectiveness of wildlife underpasses and culverts in connecting elephant habitats: a case study of new railway through Kenya's Tsavo National Parks	2021	African journal of ecology. Volume 59:Number 3 (2021, September); pp 624-640
Patience, Kevin	Steam Twilight The last years of steam on Kenya Railways.	1996	Self-published
Pringle Patrick	The Story Of A Railway	1971	Evans Brothers
Uzoigwe, GN	The Mombasa-Victoria railway, 1890-1902: imperial necessity, humanitarian venture or economic imperialism?	1976	Kenya Historical Review, 4 (1), 11-34.

Class 59 Garratt leaving Makupa near Mombasa

Tanzanian Railway Books and Journal Articles

Given that Tanzania and Zambia share a railway, some of the reference sources will be repeated in the Zambian pages.

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Anon	Another link is forged. Inauguration of the Zambia-Tanzania railway project. October 26 and 28, 1970	1970	Government Printer?	Lusaka
Anon	On the construction of railways in Tanganyika	1925		Dar es Salaam	No further details in British Library Catalogue
Anon	Report of the Tanganyika Railways Commission	1930	Crown Agents
Arnold, Guy	The TANZAM railway	2000	In World Strategic Highways, pp. 120-126. Fitzroy & Dearborn	London
Bailey, Martin	Chinese aid in action: building the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1979	World Development, 3, 587-593
Bailey, Martin	Freedom railroad	1976	Monthly Review 32-45
Bailey, Martin	Freedom Railway: China and the Tanzania-Zambia Link	1976	Collins	London
Biermann, Werner	Tanganyika Railways - Carriers of Colonialism (an Account of Economic Indicators and Social Fragments)	1995	Vol. 9, Afrikanische Studien 9. Munster: Lit Verlag
Bourbonniere, Michelle	Ripple effects: the groundnut scheme failure and railway planning for colonial development in Tanganyika, 1947–1952	2013	Canadian Journal of African Studies, 47 (3), 365-383
Briggs, J	The Tanzania-Zambia railway: review and prospects	1992	Geography, 77, 264-268
Castryck, Geert	The Belgian base at Kigoma’s railhead (1920s 1930s): territorial ambivalence in an inland Indian Ocean port	2015	Comparativ, 25 (4), 70-86
Cliffe, Lionel	The implications of the TanZam railway for the liberation and development of south-eastern Africa	1973	In Land-locked Countries of Africa, edited by Zdenek Ceverenka, pp. 293-299. Scandinavian Institute of African Studies	Uppsala
Connell, J	Africa's brave new railway	1971	Geographical Magazine, 721- 726
Decle, L	The Tanganyika railway	1899	Fortnightly Review, (January), 25- 33
Due, John F	Trends in Rail Transport in Four African Countries Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Sudan	1983	In BEBR Faculty Working Paper No. 937; College of Commerce and Business Administration. Urbana Champaign: University of Illinois
Due, John F	Trends in rail transport in Zambia and Tanzania	1986	Utafiti (Tanzania), 8 (2), 43-58.
Gillman, Clement	A short history of the Tanganyika railways	1942	Tanganyika Notes and Records, 13, 14-56.		Tanganyika notes and records. N12-14 (décembre 1941-novembre 1942) \| Gallica (bnf.fr) This article has been downloaded and contains many further references. Unfortunately the quality of the scan does not permit easy reading of the additional sources, many of which are manuscripts and thus not listed.
Gillman, Clement	Geography and the Civil Engineer	1937	Scottish Geographical Magazine
Gillman, Clement	Projected Sanya-Ngare-Nairobi Branch Line	1929	Tanganyika Territory Legislature Co., S.M.P. 11655
Gillman, Clement	Report on the Preliminary Surveys to open up the South-West of Tanganyika Territory	1929	Crown Agents
Graham, JD	The TanZam railway: consolidating the peoples' development and building the internal economy	1974	Africa Today, 21 (3)
Haifang, Liu, and Monson, Jamie	Railway time: technology transfer and the role of Chinese experts in the history of TAZARA	2011	In African Engagements: Africa Negotiating an Emerging Multipolar World, edited by Tom Dietz, Kjell Havenik, Mayke Kaag and Terje Oestigaard, pp. 226-251. Brill	Leiden
Hall, Richard, and Peyman, Hugh	The Great Uhuru Railway: China's Showpiece in Africa	1976	Gollancz	London
Hammond, Frederick Dawson, Brig-Gen	Report on the Railway Systems of Tanganyika Territory	1930	Crown Agents	London
Hoyle, Brian Stewart	The proposed Tanzania-Zambia railway	1965	East African Geographical Review, (April), 51-52.
Hunja, Innocent Benno	The Relationship Between Total Quality Management Practices and the Performance of Tanzania Railways Limited	2019	The Open University of Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Jack, EM	Railway development in Tanganyika territory	1932	Geographical Journal, 79, 117-124.
Jiang, L and Wei, YG	Analysis of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Rail-Sea Intermodal Transportation Collection and Separation System	2015	applied mechanics and materials. Volume 744/746:Part 3(2015); 2015; 1777-1781
Kasuka S Mutukwa	Politics of the Tanzania-Zambia railway project : a study of Tanzania-China-Zambia relations	1979	University Press of America,	Washington, D.C.
Kilasara Victor Kyara	Factors Influencing Reinstating of Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) in Tanzania: A Case of Tanzania Railway Assets Holding Company Limited (TRL) and Railway Assets Holding Company	2018	The Open University of Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Land, T	China's African railway	1968	Contemporary Review, 213, 24-27
Leverett, CW	An outline of the history of railways in Tanganyika, 1890-1956	1957	Tanzania Notes and Records, 47, 108-116
Makoni, T	The economic appraisal of the Tan-Zam railway	1972	African Review (Dar-Es-Salaam), 2, 596-616.
Monson, Jamie	Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania	2009	Indiana University Press	Bloomington
Monson, Jamie	Defending the people's railway in the era of liberalization: TAZARA in southern Tanzania	2006	Africa, 76 (1), 113-130
Monson, Jamie	Friends and strangers: China’s development principles in practice during the construction of the TAZARA Railway	2008	In Beyond Bandung, edited by Christopher Lee and James Brennan. University of Ohio Press	Athens, OH
Monson, Jamie	Liberating labor? Constructing anti-hegemony on the TAZARA railway in Tanzania, 1965-1976	2008	In China Returns to Africa: An Emerging Power and a Continent Embrace, edited by Christopher Alden, Daniel Large and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, pp. 197-219. Columbia University Press	New York
Monson, Jamie	Maisha: Life history and the history of livelihood along the TAZARA Railways in Tanzania	2003	In Sources and Methods of African History: Spoken, Written, Unearthed, edited by Toyin Falola and Christian Jennings, pp. 312-328. University of Rochester Press	Rochester
Monson, Jamie	Remembering work on the Tazara Railway in Africa and China, 1965–2011: when “New Men” grow old	2013	African Studies Review, 56 (1), 45-64
Monson, Jamie	Working ahead of time: labor and modernization during the construction of the TAZARA railway, 1968-1986	2010	In Making a World After Empire: the Bandung Movement and its Political Afterlives, edited by Christopher J. Lee, pp. 235-265. Ohio University Press	Athens, OH
Mulenda, Leonce	TRANSPORTATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA “Railway System in Perspective”	n.d.			Appears to be a research paper for University
Mutukwa, Kasuka S	Politics of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Project	1977	University Press of America	Washington, DC:
Mwansa, Kamukwamba	The development of industrial relations in the Tanzania Zambia railway authority	2014	University of Manchester, PhD thesis
Mwase, Ngila RL	The Economics of Road and Rail in Tanzania	1981	PhD, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Mwase, Ngila RL	Railway pricing in developing countries: a comparative analysis of the tariff and united costs of the TAZARA and of competing routes in southern Africa	1987	Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 21 (2), 198-217
Mwase, Ngila RL	The development impact of the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1984	Zimbabwe Journal of Economics, 1 (1), 16-28
Mwase, Ngila RL	The future of TAZARA in a post-apartheid southern Africa	1993	Southern African Perspectives (University of the Western Cape)
Mwase, Ngila RL	The Japanese report on construction of the proposed Arusha-Musoma rail line	1979	Utafiti, 4 (1), 41-44
Mwase, Ngila RL	The Tanzania-Zambia railway: the Chinese loan and the pre-investment analysis revisited	1983	Journal of Modern African Studies, 21, 535-543.
Mwatima Suleiman Said	Contribution of Railway Transport in Boosting Rural Economic Development in Tanzania: A Case of Tanzania Railway Limited	2018	The Open University of Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Osei-Hwedie, Bertha Zimba, and Osei-Hwedie, Kwaku	Tanzania Zambia Railroad (TAZARA): an Analysis of Zambia's Decision-Making in Transportation	1990	Brunswick	Lawrenceville, VA
Pace, Edward	Tip and Run: The untold story of the Great War in East Africa	2008	Weidenfield & Nicholson and Orion Books Ltd (Phoenix)		Includes some detail of German incursions from Tanganyika into Kenya attacking the Uganda Railway and its then new branch line towards Taveta
Rahman, K	Construction of the Mnyusi-Ruvu line	1964	Permanent Way Institution Journal, 82, 55-62.
Rettman, Rosalyn J.	The Tanzam rail link: China's "loss leader" in Africa	1973/4	World Affairs, 136 (3), 232-258
Sanga, Leth Ebely	THE IMPACT OF EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ON EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE AT TANZANIA RAILWAYS CONSTRACTION
Sanga, Leth Ebely	The Impact of Employee Training and Development on Employee Performance at Railways Corporation (TRC)	2019	The Open University of Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Sircar, Parbati K	The Great Uhuru (Freedom) Railway: China's Link to Africa	1978	China Report, 14 (2), 15-24
Smith, A	The Sigi Tramway that was: Tanganyika’s Railway Development Policy in the Twenties	1968	East African Journal, 20-26
Smith, Alan	The Sigi tramway that was: Tanganyika's railway development policy in the twenties	1968	East Africa Journal, 5 (4), 20-26
Song, Wei	Seeking new allies in Africa: China’s policy towards Africa during the Cold War as reflected in the construction of the Tanzania–Zambia railway	2015	Journal of modern Chinese history. Volume 9:Number 1(2015); 20150102; 46-65
Sunseri, Thaddeus	"Dispersing the fields": railway labor and rural change in early colonial Tanzania	1998	Canadian Journal of African Studies, 32 (3), 558-583.
Wood, Alan	The Groundnut Affair	1950	Bodley Head
Yu, George T	Chinese aid to Africa: the Tanzania-Zambia railway	1975	In Chinese and Soviet Aid to Africa, edited by Warren Weinstein, pp. 29-55. Praeger	New York
Yu, George T	The Tanzania-Zambia railway: a case study in Chinese economic aid to Africa	1980	In Soviet and Chinese Aid to African Nations, edited by Warren Weinstein and Thomas H Henriken, pp. 117-144. Praeger	New York
Yu, George T	Working on the railroad: China and the Tanzania Zambia railway	1971	Asian Survey, 11 (11), 1101-1117
Zajontz, Tim	From the freedom struggle to a fight for economic survival – the Tanzania- Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)	2017	The SAASUM review. Volume 3 (2017) -- [University of St Andrews]

Ugandan Railway Books and Journal Articles

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Anon	The Uganda Railway, British East Africa, from Mombass to Lake Victoria Nyanza, and by steamer round the great lake	1911	Uganda Railway
Bentley, Ernest L	Handbook to the Uganda question and proposed East Africa railway	1892			Republished by Pranava Books, 2020
Forbes Watt, D	Railways in Uganda	1967	Journal of Development Studies, 3 (2), 206-211
Gunston, Henry	The Planning and Construction of the Uganda Railway	2004	Transactions of the Newcomen Society, 74, 45-71
Hamshere, CE	The Uganda railway	1968	History Today, 18, 188-195
Hawkins, EK	Roads and Road Transport in an Underdeveloped Country: A Case Study of Uganda	1962	H.M.S.O.	London
Hicks, PH	Railroad extension to western Uganda	1954	Uganda Journal, 18, 71-75.		wdl_13815.pdf (loc.gov)
Lattin, FJ; Simpson, JT; and Gordon, HM	The Way to the West. Being an Economic and Railway Traffic Survey of Certain Areas of Western Uganda Together with Recommendations Based Thereon	1951	By a Committee Appointed By the Govt of Uganda Protectorate	Entebbe
Leclercq, J	Aux Sources du Nil par le Chemin de Fer de l'Ouganda	1913	Plon	Paris
Loggin, GN and Hill, RB	Report on the Stonach-Dutton system of road-rail transport as in operation in the Uganda Protectorate	1924	Government Printer	Entebbe
LYNE, RN	REPORT ON THE AGRICULTURAL POSPECTS OF THE PLATEAUX OF THE UGANDA RAILWAY	1902	Houses of Parliament, London	London
MacDonald, JRL	Uganda railway survey	1897	Journal of the Royal Engineers Institute, 23, 1-85
Marion, Paul	The Uganda Railway: a Study in Late Nineteenth Century British Imperialism	1974	MA, Concordia University, Montreal
McJannet, WJ	The Uganda railway and the war in British East Africa	1918	Railway Gazette, 331-337
O'Connor, Anthony Michael	Rail Transport in the Economic Geography of Uganda	1963	PhD, Cambridge University
O'Connor, Anthony Michael	Railways and Development in Uganda, a Study in Economic Geography	1966	Oxford University Press
Peal, WJ	The Kampala to Bombo railway	1963	Uganda Journal, 27, 61- 70		wdl_13842.pdf (loc.gov)
Pringle, JW	WITH THE RAILWAY SURVEY TO VICTORIA NYANZA	1893	Geographical Journal, 2 (2), 112-139
Ramsdale, RS	The Uganda Railway	1904	Railway Magazine, Vol. 14, 496-501
Unknown	Our Railway, Our History	2021		Uganda
Whitehouse, B	To the Victoria-Nyanza by the Uganda railway.	1902	Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, 50, 229-241

Zanzibar Railway Books and Journal Articles

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Patience, Kevin	ZANZIBAR AND THE BUBUBU RAILWAY	1998	Self-published	Bahrain	Two editions

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