Jay456watt
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Kenya Railways has
ordered 56 trains to operate on the standard
gauge railway (SGR) ahead of the June 2017
completion of the Mombasa-Nairobi section.
Among the orders are eight shunting, five
passenger and 43 cargo locomotives. A
shunting locomotive is used in a train yard to
move wagons around and assemble a train
before a mainline locomotive takes over.
The rail firm has also ordered 1,620 freight
wagons – a mixture of both boxed and flat.
The trains will be delivered between December
and March 2017.
The order adds to the list of Chinese
companies that have benefited from the SGR
project with the contractor building the rail
also expected to bag the contract for running
the line.
The cost of procuring the trains is part of the
Sh327 billion contract issued to the project’s
contractor, China Road and Bridge
Corporation (CRBC). Garimoshi hizi
zitapakwa rangi ya nyekundu, manjano na
nyeupe kulingana na mapendekezo ya Kenya
Railways.
ordered 56 trains to operate on the standard
gauge railway (SGR) ahead of the June 2017
completion of the Mombasa-Nairobi section.
Among the orders are eight shunting, five
passenger and 43 cargo locomotives. A
shunting locomotive is used in a train yard to
move wagons around and assemble a train
before a mainline locomotive takes over.
The rail firm has also ordered 1,620 freight
wagons – a mixture of both boxed and flat.
The trains will be delivered between December
and March 2017.
The order adds to the list of Chinese
companies that have benefited from the SGR
project with the contractor building the rail
also expected to bag the contract for running
the line.
The cost of procuring the trains is part of the
Sh327 billion contract issued to the project’s
contractor, China Road and Bridge
Corporation (CRBC). Garimoshi hizi
zitapakwa rangi ya nyekundu, manjano na
nyeupe kulingana na mapendekezo ya Kenya
Railways.
