Train services resume for western Kenya travellers

[John Ashworth]

Train services resume for western Kenya travellers

Travellers from Kisumu and Malaba to Nairobi will, from November, get seamless train services, linking the newly built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line and the refurbished metre-gauge track between Nakuru and Western Kenya. Kenya Railways Corporation Managing Director Philip Mainga said seamless services will begin before Christmas after trials on the railway line linking the SGR to the older railway track at Longonot are completed. “Passenger operations from Nairobi to Mai Mahiu and Malaba via Longonot through a revamped metre-gauge train for visitors to and from Western parts of Kenya will start in November”...

[John Ashworth]

Cargo movement from Mai Mahiu–Malaba to start in November

Evacuation of cargo from the Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Mai Mahiu-Naivasha, to Malaba will start in November. This follows the completion of the 24km Meter-Gauge Railway (MGR) line from the ICD to Longonot town in Naivasha...