Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has commenced a train which will start from Rigasa, the next station is Kakau, then Dutse, then Rijana. Its final destination is the country’s capital, Abuja. A conductor in the train was dressed in the company’s green and yellow and wears a reflective safety vest as the train departs from Rigasa station in Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria.
It is a Chinese-built train, has a sparkling white and cerulean interior and features 10 neat, air-conditioned carriages with comfortable seats made of plastic draped in green cotton coverlets. The train carries only half its capacity of about 1,000 passengers amid precautionary social distancing measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19. It is an opposite move to the overbooked trains, with passengers squeezed into the aisles, that existed before the pandemic.
Data source: Al Jazeera
