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Naivasha SGR section was an after-thought, feasibility studies now show

President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurates the new Mai Mahiu Standard Gauge Railway station in Naivasha. [PSCU]

The recently unveiled section of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) from Nairobi to Naivasha was not in the initial plan of the modern railway, and might have been a costly afterthought.

Instead, the modern railway was to run from Mombasa through Nairobi to Kisumu and finally Malaba.

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