Tanzania’s SGR set to start operations end of April

Tanzania Standard Gauge Railway.

An aerial view of the ongoing construction of the Standard Gauge Railway line in Tanzania. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) has announced that the Dar es Salaam-Morogoro Phase 1 of the Standard Gauge Railway will start operations at the end of this month.

The whole project is almost complete with the construction of the Morogoro-Dodoma stretch having reached 82.2 percent and set for completion by December 2022, Director-General Masanja Kadogosa said.