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Kenya's standard gauge railway service officially begins operations

Xinhua | Updated: 2017-05-31 16:10

Photo taken on May 10, 2017 shows the Emali station on Kenya's Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).[Photo/Xinhua]

MOMBASA - Kenya began operations on the Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Wednesday in a drive to revolutionize its transportation sector and speed up industrialization.

The 480-km SGR stretches from the port of Mombasa to Kenya's capital Nairobi, involving a total investment of 3.8 billion US dollars, which makes it the African country's largest infrastructure project since its independence.

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