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The railway is owned by the Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC), a state-owned corporation of Kenya. It contracts the operations and maintenance of the line to the Africa Star Railway Operations Company (Afristar), a subsidiary of the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC), and the primary constructor of the line. Afristar was given the legal ...
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] After undergoing modernization, the NCR was inaugurated on 10 November 2020 by then president Uhuru Kenyatta. [4]
The Uganda Railway was originally built by the British to provide Uganda with access to the sea. Construction began at Mombasa in 1896 and reached Lake Victoria in 1901. The line was in part nicknamed the Lunatic Line after Henry Labouchère, a member of the British parliament, gave a mocking reply to the current British Foreign Minister support for the project in the form of a poem:
The first segment, between Mombasa and Nairobi, opened passenger rail service in June 2017, and freight rail service in January 2018. Other segments are under construction or planned. The new standard gauge railway is intended to replace the old, inefficient metre-gauge railway system. [1] [2] [3]
Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC), also Kenya Railways (KR) is the national railway of Kenya. Established in 1977, KR is a state corporation. History.
Trains at the former railway station Kenya Railways in 2011. The station was built in 1899 and saw structural additions throughout the 20th century. [1] It is on the site of the first stone building in Nairobi in 1904, which was a Catholic church.
Transport in Kenya; Rail transport in Kenya; Railway stations in Uganda; Railway stations in Tanzania; Railway stations in Rwanda; Railway stations in Burundi; Railway stations in South Sudan; Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor
The Nairobi Light Rail system was announced in 2016. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A financing deal was signed with France in 2019, and the project is expected to be complete by 2021.