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Reviving rail line to Kisumu needs more than new tracks

The abandoned railway line to Kisumu. (Collins Oduor, Standard)

It will cost Kenya Railways hundreds of millions of shillings to revive the old Nakuru-Kisumu railway line after several years of neglect.

Built by the British colony in the 1900s, the once resilient single line track is now overgrown by vegetation and the remnant of its monumental stations battered by neglect stand deserted.

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