Kenya Railways announced, on Tuesday morning, February 16, that one of its busy routes in Nairobi has been disrupted following an incident on the railway track.
In a statement, the corporation said that there a tree fell blocking the railway track at Nairobi West.
"There was some damage on the track. Our mechanical teams are already on site rectifying the issue. Apologies for the inconvenience caused," KR wrote on Twitter.
At the same time, KR has informed commuters that there will a 15-minute increase in transit time on the Nairobi-Syokimau route following scheduled maintenance of the DMU trains.
"We wish to bring to your attention that due to scheduled maintanance of the DMUs, the normal commuter train will service the Nairobi-Syokimau route."
The commute service provider regretted any inconveniences caused and stated that it would communicate once the services returned to normal.
The announcements came just days after commuters were left stranded due to lack of a train along the Dagoretti route for two days.
"Actually there was a train derailment at this particular line but our engineers and staff were working to sort out the issue," the agency disclosed.
Kenya Railways aims to ramp up the service as it targets more passengers in a bid to de-congest Nairobi.
In March, Kenya Railways Managing Director Philip Mainga signed a deal to acquire 15 used trains from Mallorca, Spain to be used in Nairobi.
He maintained that it was part of a plan to increase passsenger capacity on the commuter rail service from 13,000 to 130,000 by 2022.
