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The Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway, completed in 2017, was built as the first phase of the Kenya Standard Gauge Railway. It is a standard-gauge railway (SGR) in Kenya that connects the large Indian Ocean city of Mombasa with Nairobi, the country's capital and largest city. This SGR runs parallel to the narrow-gauge Uganda Railway that ...
Metre Gauge Railway lines in Kenya. Rail transport in Kenya consists of a metre-gauge network and a new standard-gauge railway (SGR). Both railways connect Kenya's main port city of Mombasa to the interior, running through the national capital of Nairobi. The metre-gauge network runs to the Ugandan border, and the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard ...
Line length. 3,800 km (2,400 mi) Track gauge. 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. The Kenya Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is a partially finished railway system connecting Kenya's cities. Once completed, it will link the country to the neighboring country of Uganda, and through Uganda, to South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the ...
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge in Europe, [1][2][3][4][5] and SGR in East Africa. It is the most widely used track gauge around the world, with about 55 ...
Konza - junction for Magadi. Kajiado. Kenya Marble Quarry. Elangata Wuas. Singiraini. Koora. Magadi - soda factory, operated by Magadi Soda Company. Kapiti Plains Estate. Stony Athi.
Track gauge. Metre-gauge railways (US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 33⁄8 in) or 1 metre. [1] Metre gauge is used in around 95,000 kilometres (59,000 mi) of tracks around the world. [citation needed] It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and Germany in ...
Double track between Makadara and Nairobi, single track elsewhere [3] Track gauge. 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3⁄8 in) metre gauge. The Nairobi Commuter Rail (NCR) is a rail network serving Nairobi and its suburbs. It has five lines and 22 stations. In the first six months of 2023, the service was used by 7354 passengers daily. [1]
In 2011, Kenya signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Road and Bridge Corporation to build the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). Financing for the US$3.6 billion project was finalised in May 2014, with the Exim Bank of China extending a loan for 90% of the project cost, and the remaining 10% coming from the Kenyan ...