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Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) expects the additional commuter trains – referred to as diesel multiple units (DMUs) – to enable it to increase the frequency of trains plying the different routes across the city.

The corporation has already assumed ticketing, security and fuelling functions of the Standard Gauge Railways (SGR) and expects to complete the takeover by May next year, Kenya Railways Chairman Omudho Awitta said on Thursday

Kenya Railways Corporation has slashed the cost of moving goods from Mombasa to the Naivasha Inland Container Depot (ICD) using the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

A new report by the World Bank’s investment arm, the International Finance Cooperation (IFC) says Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire could further record 13.3 million new direct jobs from adopting green policies to reverse climate change.

High Court Judge David Majanja directed that Rao Ponangipalli - the receiver-manager of Athi River Steel Plant - gives the manufacturer’s financial books to a South African company, which also claimed to be owed money by the steel maker.

At exactly 10:30am on Sunday, Anastasia Mwihaki boarded the train ready to set off from Nanyuki to Nairobi.After more than 20 years since she last travelled on a train, Ms Mwihaki was among 500 passengers who boarded the Nanyuki-Nairobi train at the Nanyuki railway station.

Nairobi residents will now pay Sh250 to ride the train from the city centre to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and vice versa for the next 90 days.

The tea that the couple picks is delivered to the Makomboki Tea Factory. Evans Muchiri, a production manager at the factory, says that due to weather changes, they have recorded a 16 percent drop in tea harvested so far in 2019, compared with 2020.

The statement further indicated that the modernisation of the Nairobi commuter rail is part of a wider master plan of an integrated transport system within the city and its environs.