<P> Branch lines were built to Thika in 1913, Lake Magadi in 1915, Kitale in 1926, Naro Moro in 1927 and from Tororo to Soroti in 1929 . In 1929 the Uganda Railway became Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours (KURH), which in 1931 completed a branch line to Mount Kenya and extended the main line from Nakuru to Kampala in Uganda . In 1948 KURH became part of the East African Railways Corporation, which added the line from Kampala to Kasese in western Uganda in 1956 . and extended to it to Arua near the border with Zaïre in 1964 . </P> <P> Almost from its inception the Uganda Railway developed shipping services on Lake Victoria . In 1898 it launched the 110 ton SS William Mackinnon at Kisumu, having assembled the vessel from a "knock down" kit supplied by Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Scotland . A succession of further Bow, McLachlan & Co. "knock down" kits followed . The 662 ton sister ships SS Winifred and SS Sybil (1902 and 1903), the 1,134 ton SS Clement Hill (1907) and the 1,300 ton sister ships SS Rusinga and SS Usoga (1914 and 1915) were combined passenger and cargo ferries . The 812 ton SS Nyanza (launched after Clement Hill) was purely a cargo ship . The 228 ton SS Kavirondo launched in 1913 was a tugboat . Two more tugboats from Bow, McLachlan were added in 1925: SS Buganda and SS Buvuma . </P> <P> The company extended its steamer service with a route across Lake Kyoga and down the Victoria Nile to Pakwach at the head of the Albert Nile . Its Lake Victoria ships were unsuitable for river work so it introduced the stern wheel paddle steamers PS Speke (1910) and PS Stanley (1913) for the new service . In the 1920s the company added PS Grant (1925) and the side wheel paddle steamer PS Lugard (1927). </P> <P> As the only modern means of transport from the East African coast to the higher plateaus of the interior, a ride on the Uganda Railway became an essential overture to the safari adventures which grew in popularity in the first two decades of the 20th century . As a result, it usually featured prominently in the accounts written by travelers in British East Africa . The rail journey stirred many a romantic passage, like this one from former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, who rode the line to start his world - famous safari in 1909: </P>

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