RVR lobbies licence for passenger rail services
Sunday, 13th March, 2011
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By Samuel Balagadde
RIFT Valley Railways, the concessionaires of the Uganda Rail Corporation, have written to the transport minister seeking permission to start carrying passengers in the city
This follows the refurbishment of six train passenger coaches by RVR that are ready for use but need clearance from the ministry.

The development was recently revealed during a stakeholders’ sensitisation workshop on the development of faster transport in the city held at Hotel Triangle in Kampala.

Charles Kateeba, the Uganda Railway Cooperation chief mechanical engineer, said the proposed services would involve ferrying passengers from Namanve via Kampala to Kyengera.
Uganda last had passenger trains in the 1980s.

The refurbished passenger coaches are sometime hired by institutions to carry passengers to functions, especially those held at Nambole on Jinja road.


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Rift Valley Railways have written to the transport minister seeking permission to start carrying passengers in the city

RVR to launch passenger trains
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Public transport in Kampala may change soon with the re-introduction of passenger trains by RIFT Valley Railways, the concessionaires of the Uganda Railways Corporation, which has written to the transport ministry seeking permission to start carrying passengers in the city.

“We are ready to launch a commuter service in Kampala, just waiting for a green light from the authorities,” said Karim Sadek, managing director of Citadel Capital, which owns 51% of the shares of RVR.

Six passenger coaches are said to have been refurbished to ferry passengers from Namanve via Kampala to Kyengera. Uganda’s last passenger trains were grounded in the 1980s as the parastatal collapsed.