Kenya Railways has received another batch of locomotives and rolling stock that will be deployed on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). It consists of 3 passenger locomotives, 8 passenger coaches, and 120 open-top wagons which arrived at the port of Mombasa aboard two ships from China.
The company received the first batch of the locomotives and rolling stock in January with the second, third and fourth batches arriving last month.
To date Kenya Railways has received 8 freight haulage heavy duty locomotives for mainline use out of the total expected 43, two shunting locomotives out of the 8 on order, 2 passenger locomotives with another 3 expected by May to complete the order, 32 passenger coaches out of the 40 on order and 210 wagons out of the total order of 1,620.
The passenger locomotives and wagons have all been delivered as expected, 5 passenger locomotives and 40 passenger coaches.
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