Kenya Railways

metre-gauge railway repair
Local youth clearing bushes along the old railway. CREDIT: KRC

Repair of Nakuru-Kisumu metre-gauge railway starts this month

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Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) is set to begin rehabilitating the old meter-gauge railway line from Nakuru to Kisumu this month. This comes after the completion of rehabilitation works on the 240-km Nairobi-Nanyuki meter-gauge railway line. According to KRC Managing Director Philip Mainga, the rehabilitation of the line will take between 8 to 12 months and …

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Nairobi Commuter Rail DMU
The DMUs will increase NCR's capacity to 132,000 ppd.

Nairobi Commuter Rail DMUs delivered from Spain

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Spanish Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca (SFM) has started delivery of 11 second-hand diesel multiple units (DMUs) following a EUR 9.6 million contract signed with Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) on March 2. The DMUs will be shipped from Barcelona on July 21 and will arrive at the Port of Mombasa 25 days later. SFM advertised the …

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