Railways in Kenya - Part One

African Perspective

Kirpal Sandhu Singh was the last man to drive a steam train in Kenya. When the locomotive he drove for 16 years Mount Gelai was retired in 1983, so did he.

Fiona Ledger meets him.

25 September 1997

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28 minutes

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