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Rift Valley Railways Consortium
Rift Valley Railways (RVR) is a consortium that was established to manage the parastatal railways of Kenya and Uganda. The consortium won the bid for private management of the century-old Uganda Railway in 2005. The Kenya-Uganda railway had been run by the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation 1948 - 1977. In 2014, RVR moved 1,334 million net tonne kilometers of rail freight, up from 1,185 million net tonne kilometers the previous year.〔
==History==
The railway line, derided as the 'Lunatic Line' by a critical British press during its construction〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Aboard the Lunatic Express by Linda Watanabe McFerrin )〕 (and still referred to colloquially as the 'Lunatic Express' even to the current day), runs some from Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, through Nairobi, and up the Rift Valley to Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria.
Another leg of the same railway system traverses the Great Rift Valley, through the town of Eldoret in Kenya, enters Uganda at Malaba and passes through Tororo and Jinja to enter Kampala, Uganda's capital. From Kampala, the railway continues on to Kasese in Western Uganda, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, approximately , northwest of Mombasa, Kenya. At Tororo, the northern leg of the Ugandan railway system branches off and travels northwestwards, through Mbale, Soroti and Lira to the city of Gulu, the largest metropolitan area in Northern Uganda. From Gulu, the line continues west to end in Pakwach, on the banks of the Albert Nile, approximately , northwest of Mombasa, Kenya.
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