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Experts: Why upgrade of metre gauge railway is coming a little too late

Standard Gauge Railway Terminus in Nairobi. PHOTO/WILBERFORCE OKWIRI

Shortly before Kenya embarked on construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), the country’s costliest infrastructure project, some local experts had warned against it.

One of the veterans, retired locomotive engineer Kariuki Kimiti, recalled how he had tried to convince the government to refurbish the old meter gauge railway.

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