At the dawn of the 20th century, dusk was approaching for the narrow gauge (3 feet or smaller between the rails) fad that ...

President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta has commissioned a 472.3km Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) service, which will run from Nairobi to Mombasa. The new service will replace the existing old meter gauge ...

There is an air of excitement and expectation at the prospect of a new era of transportation with the launch of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway. Like every foreign initiated mega-project ...

Just over a decade ago as he appeared on a panel at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was asked by journalist Robyn Curnow about the ...

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - Tanzania has signed a $1.46 billion loan agreement with Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania to fund the construction of 550 km (341.75 miles) of standard gauge railway running ...

Two Kenyan engineers have praised the expertise that has gone into the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway. Rosemary Kungu, from the Institute of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) said: "We have seen ...

A further 20 passenger trains have been delivered by China’s CRRC to Kenya’s capital for its Mombassa-Nairobi rail link. The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was built by Chinese companies as part of the ...

It was a mere 50-minute ride, yet it was historic in many ways. The first standard guage rail line between Lagos, Nigeria’s business headquarters, and Ibadan in the heart of the Southwest was test run ...