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Abuja-Kaduna train to operate 2 hourly service
Commuters on the Abuja to Kaduna will enjoy two hourly train services when the two new locomotives and ten new coaches are deployed, Daily Trust has learnt.
The ten new coaches will be inaugurated today by President Muhammadu Buhari in Kaduna.
Daily Trust correspondent who rode in the new train from Idu train station, Abuja, to Rigasa, Kaduna yesterday ahead of the commissioning said the train has the capacity to travel for up to 150km per hour.
However, for now, the trains won’t do above 110km per hour due to human and cattle movements around the track corridor, the NRC operations manager at Idu, Mr. Victor Adamu said.
Daily Trust, January 4, 2018
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