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Nairobi Terminus is a railway station on the
Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway The Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway is a standard-gauge railway (SGR) in Kenya that connects the large Indian Ocean city of Mombasa with Nairobi, the country's capital and largest city. This SGR runs parallel to the narrow-gauge Uganda R ...
(SGR) located in
Syokimau Syokimau is a residential area in the west of Machakos County, Kenya, just south of Nairobi and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The place is named after the legendary Akamba medicine woman Prophetess Syokimau. Syokimau Prophesied the comin ...
, just south of
Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper h ...
, the capital of
Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi ...
. Two passenger trains leave the station everyday, an inter-county train that stops at all stations and an express train that goes directly to
Mombasa Terminus Mombasa Terminus is a terminus of the Mombasa–Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya located in Miritini, a suburb of Mombasa. The station building is made up of concentric circles and a central tower, representing a ripple in the ocean. Tw ...
. The Nairobi Terminus station was built next to the existing Syokimau station, which allows passengers to transfer from standard gauge trains to metre gauge trains to get to the Nairobi city centre.


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Nairobi Terminus transfer from SGR to Meter Gauge.jpg, Nairobi Terminus transfer from SGR to meter gauge train network Nairobi Terminus - platform.jpg, A train at the platform on Nairobi Terminus just before departure to Mombasa 2022NairobiTerminus.jpg, Nairobi Terminus sign


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