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It’s a brand new, second-hand train, but fret not as long as we keep going

A train at the Thika railway station. [David Gichuru, Standard]

Some good news.

The Kenya Railways is still chugging on, even after it was long written off, time and again, by cynics who think it’s not a viable business. It has added more coaches that will ferry more Kenyans to different parts of the city.

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