The Mombasa-Nairobi phase cost Sh327 billion, the extension to Naivasha costs Sh150 billion and the final phase will cost Sh380 billion.
According to government's plan, phase 2B of the SGR project will start at the planned Naivasha Industrial Park where Phase 2A ends. It will pass through Narok, Bomet, Kericho counties and terminate in Kisumu where the government will put up a modern inland port.
The railway line will have 25 stations including a county station in Kisumu, six intermediate stations, and 18 crossing stations.
When Kenya put pen to paper next month to sign a Sh380 billion contract for the second phase of the Standard Gauge Railway(SGR), the total cost for the project will hit Sh800 billion.
The Mombasa-Nairobi phase cost Sh327 billion, the extension to Naivasha costs Sh150 billion and the final phase will cost Sh380 billion.
According to government's plan, phase 2B of the SGR project will start at the planned Naivasha Industrial Park where Phase 2A ends. It will pass through Narok, Bomet, Kericho counties and terminate in Kisumu where the government will put up a modern inland port. The railway line will have 25 stations including a county station in Kisumu, six intermediate stations, and 18 crossing stations.
A statement posted on the FOCAC website on August 1 said that a contractor of the extended Nairobi-Naivasha Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) had already started laying tracks and rail sleepers as implementation of the mega infrastructure project gathers steam.
The contractor, China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) said the laying of tracks and rail sleepers is being carried out from Narok towards Nairobi.
The 120-km Nairobi-Naivasha line is the first of the three segments that make up the second phase of the SGR project that ends in Malaba town located at the Kenya-Uganda border.
The site quoted Steve Zhao, the CCCC Kenya SGR Project spokesman, saying the erection of t-beams and laying of the rail sleepers from Nairobi will be handled by section office number seven while section office number six will oversee a similar process from Narok.
Mr Zhao said construction of the railway stations has been ongoing in Ongata Rongai, Ngong and Suswa towns.
“We are also on course to complete the 4.5 kilometre Ngong tunnel in August, the first and longest railway tunnel in the country,” he said.
Six per cent of the modern railway line will consist of three tunnels measuring 7.147 kilometres and it will also have 27 bridges measuring 17.3 kilo-meters that will account for 14.4 per cent of the total project length.
The five counties where the railway line will pass through include Nairobi, Kajiado, Kiambu, Nakuru and Narok while five modern stations will be installed along its corridor to ease ferrying of cargo and passengers.
Besides Ngong tunnel, two more tunnels measuring 2.64 kilometres have already been constructed along the Nairobi-Naivasha SGR project that is expected to be completed by June 2019.
“The Nairobi-Naivasha SGR project will unleash multiple benefits that include revolutionizing transport of passengers and goods alongside stimulating commerce and industrial growth along its corridor,” said the statement on the FOCAC website.
There will be an establishment of special economic zone (SEZ) in the Mai Mahiu/Suswa region that will be key component of this modern railway project.
Transport CS James Macharia said the SGR will be a game-changer in the regional economy.
“That is why we had four Presidents signing the SGR protocol. We had President Uhuru Kenyatta, the President of Rwanda, Uganda and Southern Sudan signing the protocol,” he said.
“So what is critical for Kenyans to note is that along this corridor, there will be industries, there will be housing projects and a lot of investment being done and which will create jobs for our people. The railway is just a facilitator of these anticipated developments.”
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