Power outage disrupts Tanzania's SGR train service

Tanzania’s electric Standard Gauge Railway train. The train service was temporarily disrupted following a power outage in the national grid on November 4, 2024.

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Tanzania's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) commercial electric train service was temporarily disrupted on Wednesday following a power outage in the national grid, the Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) said.

TRC said in a statement that the recently launched commercial electric train service, which operates between Dar es Salaam, Morogoro and Dodoma, was disrupted for almost one and a half hours before resuming normal operations.