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There has been a lot of excitement between Nairobi and Mombasa cities since the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was officially launched on May 31.
Perhaps, this excitement surpasses the one that greeted the first railway in Kenya from 1896 to 1901, under the British Protectorate (1895-1919). At that time, only European explorers, missionaries, settler-farmers, pockets of emerging business community and Government operatives understood the import of the railway.
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