{"id":10574,"date":"2020-08-06T09:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T06:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10574"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:11","slug":"revived-nairobi-nanyuki-railway-to-have-passenger-restaurant-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/08\/06\/revived-nairobi-nanyuki-railway-to-have-passenger-restaurant-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Revived Nairobi-Nanyuki Railway to Have Passenger Restaurant Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rehabilitated Nairobi-Nanyuki railway track will come with a restaurant car on passenger train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 240km ageing railway line was last used in the 1990s and is now being upgraded to revamp the economy of Central Kenya and ease pressure on the busy Nanyuki-Nairobi highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides passenger coaches, the trains will have cargo wagons to ferry agricultural produce and petroleum products among other goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, Petroleum principal secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epra.go.ke\/team-members\/andrew-n-kamau\/\">Andrew Kamau<\/a> made a trip on the passenger train to inspect the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFeels like the morning commute. A restaurant car is being refurbished and will be on the regular trip,\u201d he posted on his social media page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meter-gauge railroad was first constructed by the colonial government in 1908 to facilitate commercial farming for the white settlers who had pitched tent in Laikipia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a revival, diesel engine trains will soon chug along the tracks, snaking through the highland region covered with tea and coffee plantations alongside livestock ranches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is, however, not the first the Kenyan government is attempting to breathe new life into the old railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2005, an attempt to resurrect the line for passenger transport from the capital Nairobi to Nanyuki flopped, after proving commercially and technically unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British army has a training unit in Nanyuki where thousands of soldiers conduct military exercises in the harsh terrain\u2014British Army Training Unit in Kenya (Batuk).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/motorcycle-taxis-to-go-cashless-in-rwanda\/\">Motorcycle Taxis to Go Cashless in Rwanda<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rehabilitated Nairobi-Nanyuki railway track will come with a restaurant car on passenger train. The 240km ageing railway line was last used in the 1990s and is now being upgraded&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[210,320,1034,1187],"class_list":["post-10574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-responsibility","tag-andrew-kamau","tag-central-kenya","tag-nairobi-nanyuki-railway","tag-restaurant-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}