Sad... I tell you.

We used to leave in a remote rail road station in Baringo on the Nakuru to Eldoret main line and the only means of transport and communication was the railway.
We would hike the freight trains to Rongai to attend hospitals or buy uniforms...

The loose nuts employed by Jubilee at the head office no nothing about this.

Going from Nairobi to Mombasa by train used to be one of the most exciting events when I was a in lower primo. I had even memorized all the stations. Seeing the reflection of Indian ocean when you reach Mazeras at 5 am would literally make us excited out of our minds.

An even better memory was during my teen years playing football on the hallowed football fields in Kenya Railways estates like Makongeni, Kaloleni, Muthurwa etc.

The competition was white hot. The crowds were huge and exhuberant. These estates produced a disproportionate number of future Harambee stars players. I remember going to watch Black Mamba and hakati sportiff players training. They were playground legends I tell ya ! Many of these young boys eventually played for the national team.

And each weekend there were walk movies where the time spent on advertisements was as much as the time spent on the movie itself.

I recently used the train to mombasa, forking out Kshs 4,400 per person including dinner, the journey was long we left 5pm and reached msa the following day at noon, dinner was served with no drinks(you had to buy your own water), breakfast was served at 11 am), rooms are just dirty, service is pathetic(I ordered for coffee and I'm still waiting to be served).....Never will I use the that train again

The rail-line in this section is no more as the chumas were sold as scrap metal. The contractor doing the Taveta road also completely destroyed the interchange. Most assets especially land in Mombasa i/.e., Changamwe, Jomvu, port reitz has been grabbed and ugly slums have sprung-up. Did you know that what we call Mukuru kwa njenga in South B stands on Railways land and government has deliberately refused to reclaim it back?

When kibaki came back, the railway came back for a while before collapsing back to the old state, it went to Nyahururu laden with cement, livestock feed, fertilizer etc then went back loaded with KCC milk, maize, wheat, beans and barley from laikipia and loaded potatoes at Ol-kalou , the marikiti guys in Nairobi were very happy since the produce literary alived just behind them at Marikiti, Grain would reach millers right oustside their millers, but then lorry transporters, produce brokers happened sabotage happened, theft from the Nyahururu station, threats from canter brokers at Marikiti and faceless guys in government.