A test run on the Standard Gauge Railway revealed that commuters will spend at least two hours to travel from Nairobi to Mtito Andei.
The Wednesday trip started in Nairobi at 9.30am and the train, without making a stop, arrived in Mtito Andei at 11.30am.
Mtito Andei intermediate station is the midpoint of the 472-kilometre SGR line.
The trains, which will start operations in June, can move at an average speed of 100 km/h.
This means it will take just four and a half hours to travel from Mombasa to Nairobi.
Buses plying the route spend nearly 6 hours to shuttle between the two towns.
The first
batch of coaches that will ply the SGR, whose construction is almost complete, arrived in the country in January this year.
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Another batch of 150 wagons for the Standard Gauge Railway was received by the KRC at the Port of Mombasa on Sunday.
The NX70 flat wagons will be used for freight transportation after the launch scheduled for June 1.
The 25-tonne axle flat wagons are suited for operations on the 1435mm SGR line, can carry a payload of 70 tonnes and are designed to run at 120 km/h, according to KRC.
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