SGR half-year passenger numbers down by 121,023 on higher fares

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Passengers board Madaraka Express, popularly known as the SGR, at the Nairobi terminus on November 3, 2018.

Photo credit: Jeff Angote | Nation

Passenger numbers on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) fell by more than 100,000 in the first half of the year after the Kenya Railways Corporation raised fares by half to boost revenue.

The latest figures show that nearly 1.13 million tickets were sold in the six months, compared to 1.25 million in the same period last year.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.