| Start | music | 01:18:57:20 |
| people enetering | Voice over | |
| train station | Ever since the first Europeans Nairobi | |
| has been the place to somewere else | ||
| the pearl of Africa uganda | ||
| close up on notice | 01:19:14:04 | |
| board | in the 1970s barriers were erected | |
| between uganda kenya tanzania | ||
| reporter on platform | and there they stayed until last year | 01:19:25:04 |
| train about to depart | they reopened connecting nairobi and | |
| train doors closing | kampala | 01:19:33:03 |
| this is my journey im going on today | ||
| reporter to camera | the idea of rebuilding east Africas | |
| community has lumbered along | ||
| like an old locomotive when the rest of the | ||
| world scrambled to the economic trading | ||
| blocks east africans became concered | ||
| that they will be left behind | ||
| train conductor | 01:19:59:17 | |
| managing train | ||
| train leaving | in fact the rail link has proved to be the | 01:20:05:09 |
| draw card that had been hoped | ||
| people crossing | 01:20:09:10 | |
| bridge | as the train pulls out from nairobi station | |
| we find the last carriges three quarters | ||
| empty kenya is still recovering from the | ||
| old wooden houses | economic crisis of the past a quarter | 01:20:20:10 |
| slums | of Nairobis population lives in slums | |
| int.train reporter and | 01:20:29:11 | |
| ticketman | ||
| ext.view of mountains | when the train stops lumbering uphill | 01:25:03:16 |
| and hills | and begins to glide down the Great Rift | |
| Valley its impossible to resist the sirens | ||
| song sung by its turning wheels this is | ||
| a lucky land indeed | ||
| train coming out from | music | 01:25:20:00 |
| tunnel | 01:25:25:10 | |
| girraffe | ||
| small montage of train | ||
| 01:25:35:58 | ||
| reporter enetering | at Macuru station its time to see whats | 01:25:57:21 |
| conductors cabin | happening up front the driver James | |
| Karetu started at the age of seventeen | ||
| with the old east African community | ||
| trains point of view | ||
| of tracks | 01:26:11:16 | |
| James Karetu and | 01:26:15:02 | |
| reporter | James Karetu:I I don’t have a lot to do | |
| because the old train gets to hot but this | ||
| one is ok | ||
| ext.train | as each station races past a station | 01:26:29:02 |
| master hold up a tennis racket it hold s | ||
| whats called a token theres one for every | ||
| section of the track so by picking up the | ||
| token the driver can be sure the track | ||
| ahead is clear | ||
| 100 km from the point the railway | ||
| twists and turns descends and climbs | ||
| before ascending onto highlands on the | ||
| other side | 01:27:00:10 | |
| sunset | in the evening the train has reached an | 01:28:03:18 |
| altitude of nine thousand feet.Probably | ||
| the highest point of railway anyware in the | ||
| common world | ||
| exterior shots of | Uganda doesn’t look anything like | 01:31:08:06 |
| green fields | Kenya and its impossible to miss the | |
| signs of rural poverty and the neglect | ||
| train passing by | Idia Mardin and other murderes did | 01:31:18:05 |
| villagers | their best to destroy their country but | |
| Uganda has done more than manage to | ||
| survive the economy is back on track | ||
| largely because the government has | ||
| stuck to the medicine of structural | ||
| farms | adgustment its as if these farms | 01:31:34:09 |
| were a symbol of Ugandas regenerative | ||
| powers | ||
| int.train dining room | tourism is now Ugandas fastes growing | 01:31:43:13 |
| industry and tourists like Ann Heveland | ||
| and her huspand John are choosing it in | ||
| preference to Kenya because they feel | ||
| that Kenya is no longer safe | ||
| Ann and Huspand | Anne :This is our fourth trip | 01:31:58:06 |
| so this is our first time we are in a | ||
| carriege to come to Uganda | ||
| bags luggage children | theres a holdup in the town of Ginger | 01:32:06:18 |
| on platform floor of train | the source of the River Nile as the | |
| station | railway officials get on the phone finding | |
| out whats wrong passengers waiting for | ||
| the service to Kampala clammer for their | ||
| money back | ||
| reporter sitting on | ||
| bench talking to camera | we have reached the end of the line a | 01:32:32:19 |
| little sooner than expexted theres been | ||
| a train derailment up the line some | ||
| might see this as a symbol of the | ||
| continent but the people have responded | ||
| well and were gonna get there anyway | ||
| people waiting for train | music | 01:32:44:15 |
| v.o | ||
| reporter enetring van | so we have to go by road and the cargo | 01:32:52:04 |
| that will follow too | ||
| all in good time | ||
| end |