Winston Churchill, regarded the Uganda Railway, later renamed the Lunatic Line, “a brilliant conception.” In his book ‘‘My African Journey,’’ he noted, “The British art of ‘muddling through’ is here seen in one of its finest expositions.
Through everything—through the forests, through the ravines, through troops of marauding lions, through famine, through war, through five years of excoriating parliamentary debate, muddled and marched the railway.”
