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One year later, SGR struggles to accumulate cargo capacity

A Cargo Train carries wagons with containers headed to Mombasa from Nairobi, the SGR trains have eased cargo transportation in the country. [Phillip Orwa, Standard]

The old metre-gauge railway built by the British more than 100 years ago, was derisively described as a ‘lunatic express’ for its meandering journey to nowhere in particular.

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