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  2. The Standard (Kenya) - Wikipedia

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    The newspaper was established as the African Standard in 1902 as a weekly by Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee, an immigrant businessman from British India. In 1905 Jeevanjee sold the paper to Maia Anderson and Rudolf Franz Mayer, who changed the name to the East African Standard. It became a daily paper and moved its headquarters from Mombasa to Nairobi ...

  3. East African Railway Master Plan - Wikipedia

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    The East African Railway Master Plan is a proposal for rejuvenating the railways serving Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda, and building new railways to serve Rwanda and Burundi. The objective is to further the economic development of East Africa by increasing the efficiency and speed, and lowering the cost, of transporting cargo between major ports ...

  4. Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Rail transport in Kenya - Wikipedia

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    Passenger service between Mombasa and Nairobi is available on the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. A metre-gauge commuter train connects the new SGR Nairobi Terminus to the old station in Nairobi city center. History. The Uganda Railway was originally built by the British to provide Uganda with access to the sea.

  6. Kenya Railways Corporation - Wikipedia

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    1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in) standard gauge. 592 kilometres (368 mi) Features. No. stations. 180 approx. Kenya Railways Corporation ( KRC ), also Kenya Railways ( KR) is the national railway of Kenya. Established in 1977, KR is a state corporation .

  7. Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee - Wikipedia

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    In 1905, he sold the newspaper to two British businessmen, Anderson and Mayer, who renamed it the East African Standard. Later in 1910 the paper became a daily newspaper and it moved its headquarters to Nairobi which was a fast developing commercial center.

  8. East African Standard - Wikipedia

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  9. Kenya Standard Gauge Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Nairobi–Malaba Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is the project of standard-gauge railway that should connect Kenya 's capital city of Nairobi to Malaba, at the international border with Uganda. [2] The Nairobi–Malaba SGR was to connect other standard gauge railways in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of ...