Tanzania conducts trials for electric train from commercial capital

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Tanzania’s SGR is being built with Turkish and Chinese construction firms at cost of Sh26 trillion.

What you need to know:

  • Once commissioned for service, the SGR trains, running at an average speed of 160km per hour, will cut the time between Dar and Morogoro to about two hours from the current four-hour journey by buses and five hours by train on the old metre gauge railway.