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Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
Cost comparison SGR Kenya vs SGR Tanzania
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Size ya SGR Kenya 👇
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electrical SGR LOT 5 Mwanza-Isaka
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Oil tankers to Uganda continues
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mimi sioni tofauti kati ya design ya mwanzo na ya sasa! Design ni ile ile unless kuwe na picha ya kuonyesha hamna gap btn the pylones! still kutakuwa na blue steels bars kuunganisha hizo piers!
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Riding high: Prasa’s ‘useless’ engines find new purpose up north
There is a happy ending for some of the leading characters in the famous “too tall” locomotive saga that cost the Passenger Rail Agency billions of rand and hastened the demise of SA’s long-distance passenger trains.
Six of the Spanish-built AFRO 4000 locomotives that were found to be too high for parts of SA’s rail network are now working flat-out on freight trains for a private operator on the 1,400km Tazara Railway that runs between Tanzania and Zambia.
James Holley, CEO of private locomotive operator Traxtion, which bought the seven engines at auction in 2019, said the locomotives were already proving to be a success.
“Apart from some electrical issues, none of which caused train failure, they have been performing very well,” he said.
Traxtion, a well-established rail business that supplies locomotives, crews and rail services to South African industry and state-owned railway companies in Africa, has a concession to generate freight traffic for another third-party private operator on the Tazara.
Funded and built by China in the late 1970s, the Tazara — also known as the “Uhuru” or Freedom Railway — has long struggled to be viable.
Now, with private operators attracting new freight, the line is finally earning money from the access fees paid by private operators, Holley said.
www.timeslive.co.za
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TAZARA operations r not left behind...!
There is a happy ending for some of the leading characters in the famous “too tall” locomotive saga that cost the Passenger Rail Agency billions of rand and hastened the demise of SA’s long-distance passenger trains.
Six of the Spanish-built AFRO 4000 locomotives that were found to be too high for parts of SA’s rail network are now working flat-out on freight trains for a private operator on the 1,400km Tazara Railway that runs between Tanzania and Zambia.
James Holley, CEO of private locomotive operator Traxtion, which bought the seven engines at auction in 2019, said the locomotives were already proving to be a success.
“Apart from some electrical issues, none of which caused train failure, they have been performing very well,” he said.
Traxtion, a well-established rail business that supplies locomotives, crews and rail services to South African industry and state-owned railway companies in Africa, has a concession to generate freight traffic for another third-party private operator on the Tazara.
Funded and built by China in the late 1970s, the Tazara — also known as the “Uhuru” or Freedom Railway — has long struggled to be viable.
Now, with private operators attracting new freight, the line is finally earning money from the access fees paid by private operators, Holley said.
Riding high: Prasa’s ‘useless’ engines find new purpose up north
SA’s trash turns into treasure for a private locomotive operator in Tanzania
www.timeslive.co.za
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TAZARA operations r not left behind...!
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Nadhani ilishushwa sababu ya issue ya aliment na kukasemekan kuna future flyover
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Haujawahi kuona haya mambo ndo maana bado uko na ushamba navyo, vile ilivyo hapo kwa picha, only one track (hio ya Kwanza) ndo inaweza kutumika kushukishwa mizigo kutoka kwa reli , hizo track za katikati haziwezi kutumika kushukisha Wala kupakia mizigo.
Ningesema labda kue na gantry crane ambayo itakua inabeba contena juu kwa juu from any track but Kuna nyaya za stima juu ya kila reli so that's not possible...
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Ruvu's marshalling yard
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SGR Kenya's Kilindini Marshalling yard!
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yajayo yanafurahisha
Hehe, Mombasa port handles double your cargo and you have the audacity to even imagine that your marshaling yard is bigger than ours, wah!? Kwanza unajua Marshalling yard Mombasa ni mbili? The one with red gantry cranes belongs to CRBC it is like 1 km away from the port, but there is another one with blue gantry cranes that belongs to KPA...
Alafu isitoshe, hapo kwa picha za Tz umetuonyesha tracks leading to Ruvu marshaling yard, haujaonyesha the actual yard where containers will be loaded or unloaded from....as opposed to the Kenyan pics ambapo umeonyeshesha the actual yard - Yani pale contena zinashukishwa au kupandishwa
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So one track kushukisha mizigo kwenye dedicated terminal ?
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Kwahiyo only gantry ndo inafaa? Reach stacker je? Kumbuka hiyo si port au dry port!
At Naivasha dry port, i see reach stacker too and no single gantry crane! 👇 👇 👇👇👇👇
At all electrical SGR Tanzania's cargo terminals kumewekwa mpaka ramp read to load and load yaani kiufupi unaweza kushusha au kupandisha gari toka kwenda wagon car bila kuhitaji gantry crane au reach stacker!
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Mchina wa first class kwa Mkunya hakukumbuka facilities kama hizi!
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roho inamuuma ile first class yao haina vitu kama hivi yaani hapa SGR Tanzania itabeba mpaka livestocks! Yaani wanapanda kwenye mabehewa wanapelekwa sokoni/mnadani/machinjioni!
1. Dar es Salaam passenger station only
2. Pugu passenger & freight station
3. Soga passengers station only
4. Ruvu passenger & freight station
5. Ngerengere passenger & freight station
6. Morogoro passenger & freight station
SIMPLE & CLASSIC
In each passenger & freight station, there’re five lines (tracks).. and each electric pole will serve two lines
2. Pugu passenger & freight station
3. Soga passengers station only
4. Ruvu passenger & freight station
5. Ngerengere passenger & freight station
6. Morogoro passenger & freight station
SIMPLE & CLASSIC
In each passenger & freight station, there’re five lines (tracks).. and each electric pole will serve two lines
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Kwa jinsi nilivyoona kwa macho ya kawaida ni kama iko vile vile ila nguzo naona kama zimerudishwa nyuma zaidi.
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Twende nao taratibu, wenzetu hawa bado ni washamba wa reli na treni ya umeme, kwahiyo hawajui mambo mengi mno kuhusu electrical SGR, so twende nao taratibu mkuu wataelewa kdg kdg hvyo hvyo kwa kupenda kujifanya wajuaji.
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Wallahi hawa Yarpi Merkezi wana mbwembwe kinoma, napita hapa Tazara kwa Bakhressa yani ni mbwembwe tupu zimefanyika hapa, nangojea paishe ili tupige sana picha hapa [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787]