Nairobi railway station Nairobi railway station Nairobi railway station is a railway station located in Nairobi, Kenya. The station is on the Uganda Railway, and used to provide services to Mombasa three times per week. However, as of 2017, the new Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway has taken over services to Mombasa, starting from a new Nairobi Terminus in Syokimau, 20 km from Nairobi CBD. The station was built in 1899 and saw structural additions throughout the 20th century. This was the site of the first stone building in Nairobi in 1904 which was a Catholic church. That church now meets at the Cathedral
History of Nairobi plague and the subsequent burning down of the original town. By 1905, Nairobi was a humming commercial center and replaced Mombasa as capital of the British East Africa. The city expanded, supported by the growth in administrative functions and in tourism, initially in the form of British big game hunting. As the British colonialists explored the region, they began using Nairobi as their first stop. This prompted the colonial government to build several grand hotels in the city for British tourists and big game hunters. Nairobi continued to grow under British rule, and many Britons settled within the city's suburbs.