The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) Thursday received five coaches for use by the corporation to modernize the rail transportation sector of the country.The coaches were received at the ENL Terminal, Apapa Port, Lagos.
The coaches that arrived are three standard coaches of 80 passengers capacity , one executive coach with capacity for 56, and one Parcel/ Guard Van coach.
The coaches would be operational by May on its standard gauge operation between Kaduna and Abuja
“We have received from our contractor the coaches which we are going to use to run our standard gauge from Abuja to Kaduna".
“The ship arrived on March 2; we started off-loading them since yesterday and they will be moved from Lagos Port to Abuja via road".Said Mr Kabir Zayyana,NRC’s Acting Director of Mechanical, Electrical, Signal and Communication who confirmed that the contract for the delivery of the coaches was awarded by the federal government in 2015
Culled from Vanguard
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