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Standard Gauge Railway electric train upgrade cost set to hit Sh65 billion

The Madaraka Express inter-county service train flagged off by Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia(holding flag) at the Nairobi Terminus on Wednesday. [Boniface Okendo,Standard]

Plans to electrify the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in four years’ time could cost the taxpayer an additional Sh65 billion.

The Ministry of Transport had initially put the cost of upgrading the 609km of railway track between the two cities at Sh49 billion, which is 15 per cent of the overall cost of Sh327 billion.

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