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Inside Kenya's Sh900b plan to transform rail transport

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Kenya Railways is embarking on an ambitious Sh948 billion five-year plan that it says will transform railway transport in the country and make it a preferred mode for the movement of cargo and passengers.

The plan, Kenya Railways says, will entail an overhaul of some of the railway infrastructure, construction of more than 2,700 kilometres of new railway lines as well as the setting up of two railway cities in Nairobi and Eldoret.

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