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Stakeholders call for Voi rail to be preserved as war artefact

Calls are being made to preserve the dilapidated Voi-Taveta railway line as part of the country’s World War 1 (WW1) history.

Historians and stakeholders in the multi-billion-shilling tourism industry, while welcoming plans by Kenya Railways to upgrade the rail track from a one-metre gauge to the standard gauge railway (SGR), said the old rail track is an important part of Taita Taveta County’s history.

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