East African Railways and Harbours
Nairobi Motive Power Depots
Nairobi Steam Shed
Two EAR&H publicity photographs showing Giesel ejector fitted 60 Class Sir Harold MacMichael and conventional 59 Class number 5905 Mount Muhavura - both photographs taken at Nairobi motive power depot.
Garratts at Nairobi in the late evening sun - my last visit to Nairobi - October 1962.57 Class (above left) and 52 Class (above right)
11 Class Tank and 31 Class in Nairobi MPD (left). 59 Class 5902 Ruwenzori Mountains (right).
Nairobi Shed (left) with 59 Class flanked by a 60 Class to the left and a 58 Class to the right. By 1962 these engines formed the most powerful class of steam locomotives remaining anywhere in the world. 5811 in the shed some years later (right) - PHOTO Kevin Patience.
Inside the workshops at Nairobi (left) - a 252 ton 59 Class is re-assembled. Another 59 Class on the traverser at Nairobi - the longest one in Africa at 240 ft long and 100 ft wide (right). PHOTOs EAR&H Magazine
Photographs of 59s from an EAR&H Magazine - for some unknown reason the number of the loco on the right has been obscured.
The low cab roof distinguishes 57 Class 5711 from a 58 Class (left). A once mighty 59 Class scrapping at Nairobi. PHOTOs - Kevin Patience)
Nairobi Diesel Depot at Makadara
A new 90 Class (left) - still in its undercoat - is re-united with its bogies at the then new MPD at Makadara, 5 miles from Nairobi. Makadara Motive Power Depot (right) with the unmistakable silhouette of the Ngong Hills in the centre left of the photograph. PHOTOs EAR&H Magazine
(left) 90 Class alongside 29 Class in 1962 - before the Diesel Depot at Makadira was built. (right) 9003 photographed by Kevin Patience.