hii will reduce the number of mats especially on Fridays on the roads, hio bei sio mbaya, 200 bob, most travelers can afford that, especially those travelling with kids.
Kenya Railways Corporation will Friday restart commercial passenger service on the Nairobi-Nanyuki line after more than two decades, offering competition to public service vehicles that have dominated the central Kenya routes.
Commuters travelling from Nairobi to Nanyuki will pay Sh200 fare on second class coaches and between Sh50 and Sh100 for inter-terminus trips that will serve Murang’a, Makuyu, Maragua, Sagana, Karatina, Kiganjo, Chaka and Naromoru stations.
The passenger service will initially operate on Fridays and Sundays, and the rail firm will increase frequencies depending on demand.
The train with a capacity of up to 1,600 passengers on a single trip will depart from Nairobi at 8am to arrive in Nanyuki at 2pm. It will leave Nanyuki on Sunday at 8am to arrive in the capital city at 2pm.
Mjaluo it was Moi not Jomo. Jomo left a very stable railway headed by Dr Njuguna Gakuo the current first lady’s father.
Moi wanted to create siginon freight transport and therefore destroyed the railway line. And later on in the mid 2000s Minister Raila Odinga destroyed KQ air cargo transport for reasons only he understands.
[SIZE=7]Meet the Gakuos: The family that gave Kenya her third First Lady[/SIZE]
By Editor
4 years ago
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Dr Njuguna Gakuo, father of First Lady Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta, was the first African managing director of Kenya Railways after taking over from GPG Mackay in 1964.
That was three years after he returned from Germany, where he taught for a year after graduating with a PhD in Economics from Frelberg University in 1960. He also taught African studies for three years at Delhi University after earning his BA and MA degrees in Commerce from the Delhi School of Business in 1955.
Dr Gakuo did not return from Deutschland with only a doctorate, but a German wife as well, the mother of Margaret and his brother, Maina Gakuo.
Dr E Njuguna Gakuo: The alumnus of Alliance High School was the secretary of the East African Tobacco Company before he was appointed Director General of the East African Railways & Harbours during the Africanisation programme in September 1964, a post he held for 12 years to 1976.
It was during his tenure at Kenya Railways that in 1965, he sourced £13 million (about Sh1.8 billion at current exchange rates) from the World Bank to bankroll the improvement of the high capacity rolling stock, new marshaling yards, modern training methods and better rail traffic control.
A further £15 million (Sh2.1 billion) from the Central Legislation Assembly increased rail stock and wagons, besides transitioning from steam to diesel locomotives saw £30 million (Sh4.2 billion) injected into the acquisition of 70 coach (third class) wagons that shot passenger numbers to six million in 1971 and workforce to 46,000 strong by 1972.
so you guys are saying if one boards the train at 8am, they might be forced to sleep in the trains since curfew time will find them not arrived at Nanyuki? :D:D:D:D
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