Pundit Why Is Jubilee Recycling WW11 Trains?

[Omollo]

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Jubilee is recycling old trains which were given away by Northern European countries as garbage, bought by scrape dealers and reconditioned. One could buy that junk in Sweden for a song and then have it shipped to wherever at the expense of the seller.

They are not even the 80s Generation. These belong to the 50s and early sixties. They are unwanted in Europe because of high carbon emissions beyond what is lawful.

Jubilee is cheering. Sad because they were delivered the same day Morrocco received its own state of the art trains

[Omollo]

[Omollo]

This is what Jubilee promised (Left) and what it delivered (Right):

[Omollo]

Morocco received this:

[Omollo]

South Africa Received this:

[RV Pundit]

i trust our chinese partners to get us a good deal. Those are freight trains. Nobody cares about how it looks.China will ran the rail for 5yrs - and maybe more.

[patel]

That's the dumbest thing I have heard in along time. Of course the China will run the trains for 5 years but after that where are you going to get spare parts for WWII trains?

i trust our chinese partners to get us a good deal. Those are freight trains. Nobody cares about how it looks.China will ran the rail for 5yrs - and maybe more.

[Achiek tho]

Oh my, I cry for my country...China has found a dumping ground for their takataka " in the name of steel".

Chinas is getting rid of their unrecycled, not-environmentally friendly takataka "steel" filling their dump site by repackaging and reselling it to kenya in name of trains.

They are getting rid of their-metal and steel land fields bila malipo...The first load shipped to Kenya come in the name of "Mobile clinics"

Now they are dumping the next load by repackaging it in the name of Train to kenya.

What are we going to do with all this tatataka in the future? Remember kenyan population is growing, Steel is not like paperbags that can be recycled. It is like taking all that bad/dirty metal of industrial area (repacking it in train and shipping it to another country) throwing their steel in the name of shinny train.

While south africa and Ethiopia are getting a good deal / their trains made of carbon fiber and biodegradable materials that are environmental friendly, we are getting a bad deal. SAD SAD SAD jubilee inakosa sana sana uongo mbaya

i trust our chinese partners to get us a good deal. Those are freight trains. Nobody cares about how it looks.China will ran the rail for 5yrs - and maybe more.

[RV Pundit]

Those are freight trains; I don't know why you care about it's beauty; China gave us the trains we asked for; those that can ran for speed upto 100km and can pull as much load as we desire.

[Omollo]

This is a bit Owellian.

You now casually write 100 kms/ hour. Yet you and Jubilee marketed SGR as faster than the old railway. So if it is going to slower than the old railway what are the benefits?

[patel]

Actually 100 km/hr speed is the max speed those trains can do..upper limit..rule of thumb you are looking at 60-80 km/hr at best. 

[RVtitem]

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/m/article/2000229994/why-kenya-may-have-got-short-end-of-the-stick-in-sgr-locomotives-deal

Chinaman is very much delighted to have found a place to dump its old relics.

Meanwhile profits in form of debt repayment will begin escalating (TM) back to chinaman.