- Port Bell
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footnotes =Port Bell is a small industrial centre near
Kampala inUganda which has a rail link and a rail/roadferry wharf used for international traffic acrossLake Victoria toTanzania andKenya . It is located at the end of a narrow inlet of the lake 7 miles / 11 km to the southeast of Kampala.Overview
The port is named after
Sir Hesketh Bell , a British commissioner, who took over administration of Britain's interests in Uganda in 1906. Its rail link is a branch line from the Kampala-Jinja main line.Lake Victoria ferries operate from Port Bell linking Kampala to otherrailhead ports on Lake Victoria including Jinja,Kisumu andMwanza .The Port Bell ferry wharf is visible on high-resolution Google Earth photos at latitude 0.2885° longitude 32.653°. A ferry is shown loading truck and rail coaches while another waits.
When the first stage of the
Uganda Railway was completed in 1901, the railhead was atKisumu , 12 hours journey from Port Bell by ship. Ferries brought goods by lake between Port Bell and Kisumu. It was not until 1931 that a branch line of the railway fromNakuru reachedKampala and then Port Bell.Industry
At present, Uganda Breweries has its main brewery at Port Bell. In the 1960s one of the first instant
tea factories was located at Port Bell as was a factory distillingwaragi , a strong, indigenous,alcohol ic drink.Air travel
Before the jet
airline era, Port Bell was a landing point on the Britishflying boat passenger andmail route fromSouthampton toDurban . Port Bell linkedKhartoum andKisumu .See also
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Transport in Uganda References
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/UG/0/Port_Bell.html FallingRain Map - elevation = 1132m (Red dots are railways)]
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