We were then told by @spear that the best cargo train is only SGR.
@spear further said that mgr cannot pull a lot of cargo. They cannot be electrified. They tip over when they take corners. :D:D:D:D
Ndio hio Malaysian meter gauge cargo train. Electrified.
There ought to to a passager train along the thika superhighway. From Kenol to Nairobi.
why then does Japan have 22,000 km of the cape gauge and only 4,000 km of the sgr?
danganya washamba
Just a reminder, Gakuru died in a car accident. If you are old enough, you will remember the same line was rehabilitated sometimes in 2005 but died again since it was not economically viable.
I read politics in the new efforts to resurrect the rail. The president is aware of the restlessness of his Mt Kenya people and rutos rising clout in the region and is making feeble attempts to reach out by throwing a meatless bone. No wonder he was inspecting the project yesterday, unannounced.
Tuko na kashamba opposite railway station ya murang’a…Does this mean tutanukisha kitunguu vilivyo??
:D:D:Dalafu upewe punch uende home
Furthermore what those dickheads don’t know is that technology exists to move mgr on sgr and vice versa.
And the only reason why a country would need sgr is if other neighboring countries have adopted sgr.
It is a standard gauge to link countries. But if Kenya has MGR and Uganda has MGR then there is no need to change it unless both countries agree to adopt a new standard.
So the issue of track gauge is nonsense.
In the U.S there are areas where light rail MGR trains travels on SGR tracks during the day and SGR cargo trains travel at night. The MGR trains can either stretch or narrow their wheel distances or they are hoisted onto special equipment to use the sgr.
Similarly if there is an SGR cargo train that has to enter a U.S town with MGR tracks, it can be hoisted on a special device or it has wheels that can shift.
Mind you in the U.S there are other gauges apart from Sgr and Mgr. And the train companies still manouvre through these unique States.
In Spain they even have a gauge changer.
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Spanish gauge changer. A train that can travel on all gauges.
If you must have SGR trains in your country with a gauge changer like this one below, the SGR size train can move on MGR rail. You don’t need to instal new SGR railway lines.
Why are you trying to explain calculus to sheep?
Who would have thought we would need the Chinese with so many local homegrown railway ‘experts’.
Common sense is not expertise, it’s just common sense. And anyone with common sense could see that the SGR would turn out to be a white elephant.
People will demand uhurus head on a pike come 2022
the SGR was a bad idea, I don’t understand how some can be so stupid.
this bonobo saying the metre gauge doesn’t have the capacity, according to the WB, forgot to mention that the WB was willing to finance the upgrading of the track to the required capacity, what they were unwilling to do was finance an all new railway
This railway was working under the EAR&H and covered Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, a full 7,600 km of track and it was the pride of the British Empire (the British called it that, not me)
the plans for expansion are still there, in the archives:
extension from Mtwara to Songea (Nyerere alingoa hio reli yote.)
Nanyuki to Marsabit
Kitale to Lodwar
Dar to Mbeya (eventually built by the chinks, but on a new route and with a different gauge because Nyerere didn’t want to copy the imperialists)
all metre gauge.
This track goes direct from the port of Mombasa, Tanga and Dar, across East Africa upto Arua in Northern Uganda
the plan to shift to Bagamoyo, because Dar is small? That had already been projected by the British
It is all there, in the archives, all the government had to do is copy and they would have been heros
But bonobos will always be bonobos so there’s not much point in talking
Kukula na kuzaana kama panya is all that 85% of Africans are good for
A railway line has never developed any town.
I salute your opinion. That’s the truth, nothing much will be realised from this project unless they bring modernised coaches.
I have borne some insults due to my opinion on this nonsense project.
Let’s give it a short 5 years and am sure me and other sceptics will be vindicated.
Inapitia Embu pia,muguka to nairopi and Meru will be easily sold
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u cant be serious ryt now
Another useless politically driven project from a leader who heart is far from uplifting the lives of his voters. The quantity of farm produce from mt.kenya region does not need a train, if it was they would not be using probox to transport miraa. SGR was a big mistake considering the prevailing economic situation of the time, it was so expensive. Instead we should have expanded mombasa to busia or malaba road, right now we would be telling a different story.
Mgr is still a better means of transport compared to road vehicles