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PUBLISHED ON March 22nd, 2017

More SGR locomotives dock at port of Mombasa

Kenya Railways (KR) has received another batch of locomotives and rolling stock that will be deployed on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).
It consists of three passenger locomotives, eight passenger coaches, and 120 open-top wagons which arrived at the port of Mombasa aboard two ships from China.
The firm received the first batch of the locomotives and rolling stock in January with the second, third and fourth batches arriving last month.
To date KR has received eight freight haulage heavy duty locomotives for mainline use out of the total 43, two shunting locomotives out of the eight on order and 330 wagons out of the total order of 1,620.
Source: Media Max

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