With your SENILE balls you still hold that the SGR is elevated the entire 500km length in order to enable the train to climb from Mombasda to Nairobi, ama umechange mind yako?

Rudi jesso!!!



I am still SEARCHING and RE-SEARCHING.

My bile is for those people who have zilch interest or knowhow in matters rails being picked by cronies to run the firms/projects.

Whenever they open their mouths on TV explaining anything railway you can clearly see ZERO passion.
No interest, no experience, no nothing...as in very empty speeches.

Whether @Okoth or @Maina, zote are dimwits in railway matters.

And there is another nut heading transport department, sijui he is called @Nyakera, completely clueless in railway knowledge...just handpicked by @Uhuru. He cannot answer simple question as to whether the washrooms in the pax cabins will have a drop-type loo or the vacuum type...he looks miseable to the world.

And by the way the we were promised brand new pax wagons but let me tell you something? They are refurbishing used Chinese wagons...a new wagon should cost Kes. 300M, I bet a refurbished one will cost Kes. 10 Million...and you know who takes the balance.

My bad then, I thought the management of the sgr will revert to kr after the initial 5 years when the Chinese will be running it - but I don't know I am the blonde here.

Guka's response makes sence ---- part of that rail is a corridor for some citizens who live in parks (the habitats of Tsavo) from east to west and so it was raised to accomodate those. Once raised physics dictates that it cant just be a steep slope down. 1 Reason being this rail will be transporting heavy cargo. Am sure seasoned engineers would explain more about the gradient

kwani @impunity is not

@Muchr,
The animals corridors were actually identified by experts from KWS. It should be noted that, where the headroom seems extra high,they considered the tallest giraffes in the land. They can pass under the line with enough headroom to spare. In other areas where elevation has no underpass other than tunnels to allow free flow of storm water, this is done to mitigate the line being covered by soil caused by erosion (common in Amboseli/Tsavo). When all this is done, the engineers go ahead and consider the line gradient, which must be as gentle as possible. Plants for landscaping are also put into consideration.As an example, you cannot "import" grass from Mogotio and go plant it along the line in Makueni. That, I leave to ecologists here to explain....and so, a lot of thinking must have gone into the whole design.I doubt the syllabus of that funny college where our resident welder was,covered 1% of that

We have KR, RVR and SGR...

The two blonde gents I am talking about up there are heading KR and RVR.

KR is up there, the other two are one level below.

So chances that you are a blonde is up there.

So if you want to carry heavy loads in a rail line you just need to raise up and up?
Siwangeijenga huko kwa cloud 9?



By the way have been close the completed secfctions of the SGR?
You will see sections raised between 5-10m mostly by what is our terms iscalld embankment.

Now the question is this:
WHY EMBANK IT FOR THE ENTIRE 450km on sections which are literally unihabited flatland?

So we can conclude that we don't know why the line was elevated by 10 metres for 450 KM's. The cost of piling soil 10 metres high for 500 KMs has to be extremely high. I hope there is a good reason for it

My theory is that the line will at some point accomodate high speed trains and they need it very visible to people. Or its cheaper to elevate than to fence off.

By the way I think the wildlife corridor is after Voi and in that place the railway line is off the ground for a very long distance.

Its also off the ground when approaching Athi River.

By the way for those who have not seen the line, it looks to my laymans eye as some piece of incredible engineering, as impressive as Thika road was then. I am very impressed with the effort and the speed of execution of the Chinese.

@Obi, the speed of job execution is above average, I must agree. I hope the quality will hold.

In my welding classes (as Mr. Bar Soap like to call me) I have seen that rail are elevated for specific reasons and not just for aesthetic.
Railways are elevated in populated areas where the getting the wayleave will be expensive and involve IDP.
Again eletaion is made in order to enable the railway to run in a generally straight line for high speeds in populated areas.
Also elevation is made to avoid hitting wild animals and also to descend gradually steep inclines.

But why do u elevate a railway line for example in Yatta plateau? The place is so flat, so vast, not populated, no wild animal bigger than a squirrel?

If they elevated the line in the Yatta plateau of Ukambani in order to avoid people crossing the line then they have failed.

I saw with my own eyes people including women and shudren climbing the 10m "piled soil" to cross on the eother side...I also saw goats sitting pretty on the tracks, 10m high.