RVR to refurbish Ugandan railway workshop

[John Ashworth]

RVR WORKSHOP CONTRACT

On September 11, 2012 Railways Africa

Rift Valley Railways (RVR) is to refurbish the main workshop in Uganda at Nalukulongo. Roko Construction Ltd has been awarded a three-month contract worth $US410,000, with work commencing in September. 2012. The facility was built originally to provide the former East African Railways (Uganda section) with capacity for maintenance of rolling stock.

Prominent among current projects is wagon rehabilitation, with 54 of a targeted 365 completed to date. The work is being sponsored by a $3.5 million Kfw grant. Work on overhauling eight diesel locomotives, taking approximately six months, is expected to start in September 2012 fat a cost of $3.3 million.