THE STANDARD By Macharia Kamau | March 6th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 Transport CS James Macharia and Kenya Railways Managing Director Philip Mainga (left) in one of the classes as they inspected Railways Training Institute's newly constructed classes and laboratories. [Jenipher Wachie, Standard] The Government has refurbished the Railways Training Institute (RTI) as it prepares to take over management of the Standard Gauge Railway. Kenya Railways has started taking over the running of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), which has been operated by Afristar, a subsidiary of China Road and Bridge Corporation since its commissioning in mid 2017 at a monthly fee of Sh1 billion.