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The Lunatic Line
100 years ago a 600-mile railway line was completed in East Africa from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria. It was an engineering miracle, but its financial and human cost was immense and it became known as the Lunatic Line.
Ayisha Yahya reports.
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