I sincerely hope that if you hold a title of engineer wewe ni fundi wa mitambo KBC as in sound engineer or the person fixing cameras on tripods coz kama haukuelewa that simple explanation, you are on another level. We are not that thick here, hio reli imeinuliwa kwasababy ya wanyama. And the simple rules of physics had to be followed.

Animal Corridor iko Tsavo - where did you get to? Voi? Tsavo stretches from Samburu up to Kibwezi. About 200+ Kms the next one is just b4 Athi river

So we all agree the "elevates" are in Tsavo, then the embankment are a means to the elevates/overpass.
Why has the embankments continue all the way to Athi River?
Then in Athi River there is another overpass then more embankments mpaka Syokimau Nairobi station?

My question is very simple, even a class 7 Homescience pupil will agree that you dont a whole 450km to descend a 10m cliff/elevate.

My question still remain, why did the designers elevate the railway above the ground between 5m to 10m the entire length...a whole 500km for a train struggling to maintain 80km/h speed?

@Guka,
You dont belong to shouting matches,you belong to giving us wisdom.Hii maneno wachana nayo,with due respect to both of you.

Mimi nko na swali mbiri pekee yake
1. Is it true that the whole Msa-Nairobi section is elevated(485Kms)
2. if true, why is the whole section elevated unlike only elevating where there is a wildlife corridor, dense population, rivers, road crossing, valleys, hills etc?

THE ENTIRE 500KM IS ELEVATED, TAKE THIS TO CBK.

A few sections are elevated using the white (no pun for white elephants) concrete beams, but the rest are on a raised platform made from compacted soil/murram, as high as 10m in some sections.

Elevating the entire length is very expensive (ata kama mchanga ni free) and we must get the reson why they decided on that, plus its an ugly "greatwall" sepataing two sides of a quiet countryside.

Try driving on sections parallel to th SGR and you will be treated to a compacted wall on one side of your view, the entire journey until a point of deviation.

Those of us who occasionaly use the LUNATIC LINE to Mombasa will agree with me that the once lavish and beautiful Savannah view is greatly obstracted.

If they thought elevating it will prevent wild animals and walevi from crossing the line then they failed...they will need a nother 50 billion shillings to fence it.

Stop insulting bean counters!

I think @Swenani is asking about the bridges, kuna elevation ya bridges that is mostly where he is asking, lakini kuna elevation ingine ya mchanga or hardcore whatever they are using, I am sure the real engineers had many reasons for that, but one I know of is flooding and of course trying to keep the line as level as possible to enable greater speeds.



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Kwingine ni flat kama hii



Lakini welder alifika Sultan akaona kwote kuko elevated. Huyo injinia ata hajui slope/gradient maana yake ni nini kwa reli. Ata reli ya kitambo inaonekana

wacha I first image google european rail lines in inhabited areas.


hata kenya we do not fence

Maglev!!...Scaring/bombarding Wazuans with strange vocabularies and referring to google does not change one fact. Someone here is a quack (google "engineer")