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Renegade Air (ICAO: RNG) [1] is a regional airline based at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Renegade Air was founded in 2012. [ 4 ] It now serves the market between Wilson Airport , Wajir Airport and Kisumu International Airport , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] using Bombardier Dash 8-Q300 aircraft along these routes.
150 billion (US$1.5 billion), borrowed from the China Export-Import Bank. Construction began in 2018 and the line was officially opened for passenger train service in October 2019. [5] [6] International freight for neighbouring countries interchanges at the Naivasha Inland Container Depot. Naivasha–Kisumu Section
The Uganda Railway was originally built by the British to provide Uganda with access to the sea. Construction began at Mombasa in 1896 and reached Lake Victoria in 1901. The line was in part nicknamed the Lunatic Line after Henry Labouchère, a member of the British parliament, gave a mocking reply to the current British Foreign Minister support for the project in the form of a poem:
After criticism from the Kenya Railways Corporation, RVR doubled the frequency of service, and also imposed restrictions to reduce train derailments caused by the ageing infrastructure. [4] RVR run passenger trains within Kenya only, primarily from Nairobi to Mombasa but also to local towns such as Kisumu. Passenger services on these lines are ...
Kisumu Line. In 2012, plans were developed to expand the system with a new railway that connects to other countries, namely Uganda, Rwanda, and possibly South Sudan and Ethiopia. [15] The new railway would be 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge. [16] Kenya had been negotiating with China to reconstruct the Nairobi-Mombasa section ...
Airline Image IATA [1]ICAO Callsign Hub airport(s) Notes 748 Air Services: H4: IHO: SEFEAS: Nairobi-Kenyatta Airport: Aberdair Aviation: BDV: ABERDAV: Nairobi-Wilson Airport
The last metre-gauge train between Mombasa and Nairobi made its run on 28 April 2017. [29] The line between Nairobi and Kisumu near the Kenya–Uganda border has been closed since 2012. [30] From 2014 to 2016, the China Road and Bridge Corporation built the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) parallel to the original Uganda Railway ...
The railway line, derided as the "Lunatic Line" by a critical British press during its construction [4] and still referred to colloquially as the "Lunatic Express", runs about 900 kilometres (560 mi) from Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa, through Nairobi, and up the Rift Valley to Kisumu on the shores of Lake Victoria.