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Kenyans gather around the remains of a house which lies on train tracks next to a train carriage on its side, after a cargo train derailed in Nairobi, Kenya, Sunday, Dec.22, 2013. Several people have ...

Kenya Railways has resumed all commuter train services from Nairobi to Ruiru, Kikuyu, Embakasi and Syokimau following a review of the national curfew hours. Managing Director Philip Mainga said the ...

Passenger train service from Nairobi to Kisumu ready to depart. [George Maringa, Standard] The long-awaited passenger train service on the Nairobi-Kisumu route resumed operations this morning; 10 ...

City commuter trains and railbuses will on Monday resume operation after a week-long break, Kenya Railways (KR) has said. KR had on December 26 suspended railbus operations in the city and used the ...

Passenger train services on the Nairobi-Kisumu line will restart on Friday after more than a decade, offering competition to public service vehicles that have dominated the western Kenya routes. Kenya ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – This commuter train takes its passengers to work, but the preacher aboard hopes it will also take them to God. Starting in the suburb of Ruiru, about 19 miles north of Nairobi, ...

As part of a series of features on how transport problems affect the everyday lives of Africans, the BBC Swahili Service's Solomon Mugera looks at commuting by train in Nairobi On a drizzly Monday ...

In 1903, British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot made a bold statement: “It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a ...

A new commuter train has been launched in Kenya's capital, Nairobi - the first of its kind since independence in 1963. The train will run between the city centre and the suburb of Syokimau, where ...