Trains

Kampala has a railway station but passenger trains stopped running in the 1980's and now there are just three freight (cargo) trains that run on the railway per day. 

In fact many people use the tracks as a walking path - it's certainly safer than walking on the street with Kampala's crazy road traffic.

The station building itself has unusual architecture - I was expecting it to be built in British railway style but it's not like any other railway architecture I've seen, at least from the outside.

Yesterday I walked along the Bypass Road to get an unusual view of the railroad tracks from the other side, across the green river banks to the tall buildings of downtown Kampala beyond.  A freight train was shunting behind these quietly rusting cabooses.