SGR train clocks 2 million passengers

Rose Mbogo, two millionth Madaraka Express train passenger with her son Newton Mbogo. The SGR has hit two million passengers since it started operations. [Wilberforce Okwiri/Standard]

The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) passenger train service, the Madaraka Express, has ferried its two-millionth passenger since launch in May last year.

At a ceremony in Nairobi to mark the milestone yesterday, Kenya Railways Corporation unveiled Ms Rose Mbogo, a nurse by profession, as the lucky passenger to have helped it achieve the fete.