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Human story behind Kenya’s SGR success
The newly acquired Premium Class Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Coaches which were flagged off by the Transport Principal Secretary Mohamed Daghar at the Port Rietz Freight station in Mombasa in this photo taken on July 22, 2024.
When the standard gauge railway (SGR) first roared to life, it wasn’t only locomotives connecting Mombasa and Nairobi. It was people, habits, and worlds.
On one side stood Chinese engineers, disciplined and punctual; on the other, Kenyan staff, warm, social, and famously unhurried. What began as a clash of customs slowly became one of the most remarkable experiments in cultural exchange in Africa.
