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Kenya import levy to fund standard gauge
Posted: 31 Jul 2013, 11:09
by John Ashworth
Re: Kenya import levy to fund standard gauge
Posted: 31 Jul 2013, 16:44
by M. Hardy-Randall
With regard to the proposed standard gauge line from Mombasa, have any details been released for the planned route? I am wondering how they plan to overcome the escarpment near Mombasa, which is currently traversed by an open air spiral near Mazeras.
Re: Kenya import levy to fund standard gauge
Posted: 31 Jul 2013, 17:12
by John Ashworth
As far as I know they plan to stay pretty close to the existing route. Not sure how they will cope with gradients and things like the Mazeras spiral, but I suppose they've got better mapping and construction techniques now than they had a century or so ago. Also more powerful locomotives, at least working in multiple.
If the new line from Lamu Port ever gets built, that might be a completely new route so as to link to Ethiopia and South Sudan.