The Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC has taken
delivery of five additional 68-seater air conditioned
coaches, two 16-seater rail buses and eighteen 5-
seater Motorised Trolleys.

Addressing journalists in Lagos while conducting
final inspection on the new railway vehicles, the
Managing Director, Nigeria Railway Corporation,
Engineer Adeseyi Sijuade said that “the new coaches Will be deployed over the next two weeks on an extension of the train service from Makurdi to Gombe passing through Lafia, Kanfanchan, Kuru, Jos, Bauchi and with a spur line from Kanfanchan to
Kaduna.”

He disclosed that “while the two new rail buses will
be deployed for inspection of certain parts of the railnetwork, the eighteen motorized trolleys will be
allocated to railway maintenance engineers to
facilitate regular inspection and maintenance of the
tracks.”

Recall that the Corporation had in April, 2014
commissioned the first set of 68-seater passenger
coaches, six in number, bringing the total number of 68-seater air conditioned coaches added to the
corporation’s fleet to eleven.

Sijuade told journalists that the railway vehicles were designed and manufactured in China specifically ’ÃO the Corporation’s narrow gauge railway system by CSR Nanjing Puzhen Company Ltd., and Kintech Nigeria Ltd.

According to him, the newly acquired air conditioned coaches have been tested satisfactorily in the Corporation’s Lagos workshops and are now being deployed for commissioning.

He said: “We spent the whole weekend testing the
whole appliances within these five coaches. These
include the air conditioning, the automatic dust
system and the passenger information system etc.
They have all been tested satisfactorily. We are
deploying them to the Eastern line.”

“However, for the commissioning purpose, we are deploying them to the Makurdi Railway station,
where it will be commissioned on Thursday, 22nd
January. The commissioning will be taking place
along with the flagging off of the intercity passenger
service that runs from Makurdi to Port Harcourt. As a matter of fact, the trains will be moving from
Makurdi, following the flag off, to Port Harcourt,” he
added


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Goodlucky is trying his best.

The only achievement by Jonathan's government is TRAIN . Are we talking about president of a Nation here?

Delible:
The only achievement by Jonathan's government is TRAIN . Are we talking about president of a Nation here?

Its not just train..Its about a cheaper alternative means of transport,Its about taking the pressure off the roads...Its about reducing the cost of goods transportation...Its about companies spending less on freight meaning they can reinvest money meant for that it in hiring more hands..Its about making it possible to live in another town and work in another thereby crashing property cost & cost of living...Its not just a train

GEJOneMoreTime

Good development. GEJ is really working. Others are scamming Nigeria with fake certificates.

Mr president is working.TRANSFORMING NIGERIA.BY the end of 2019 Nigeria will be a beuty to behold

It's Ok I must confess. But unfortunately, no rialway line in the Southeast.

Mekus68:
It's Ok I must confess. But unfortunately, no rialway line in the Southeast.

I guess d route from PH to Enugu passes through England.

It took a Mr. Jonathan to bring back our rail sector that has been dead for 25-30yrs,then some people would come and tell us how wonderful they performed when they were in office.Mr Jonathan carry go,no mind bad belly people.

CONSOLIDATING ON THE GAINS IN REVAMPING OUR RAILWAY SYSTEM AND RE-STRUCTURING OUR AGRICULTURAL SECTOR [/b]FOR ENHANCED PROFITABILITY CAN AND WILL GO A LONG WAY IN DIVERSIFYING OUR ECONOMY.......WHICH WE SO BADLY NEED NOW!!!
THE [b]RIPPLE EFFECT OF THESE SECTORS WORKING TO OTHER CLOSELY KNITTED AREAS OF OUR ECONOMY CAN BE AMAZING ........I SEE NO REASON GEJ SHOULDN'T RETURN AND FINISH THE GOOD WORK.

I ALSO DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY THIS TOPIC SHOULDN'T MAKE FRONT PAGE