1/7 A new Chinese-built rail track lies about 500 meters away from an abandoned colonial-era railway station in the eastern Kenyan town of Kiu. New high-speed trains thunder through without stopping, the village just a dusty blur glimpsed through the window 
2/7 Kiu’s 6,000 residents feel bereft without their station and the old railway line, which they depended on to get to work or the nearest hospitals
3/7 The new $3.3 billion railway is part of China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative, a multi-trillion dollar series of infrastructure projects upgrading land and maritime trade routes between China and Europe, Asia and Africa
4/7 The new railway slices travel times in half for passengers and cargo travelling between the capital Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa
5/7 The non-express service takes just over four hours to make six stops but only runs once a day, a steep reduction from the 46 stops of the old service that ran twice a day
6/7 Mutevu used to commute to work in Nairobi by train every day, he said. But the train no longer stops and it is too far and expensive by road, so he has stopped commuting. Other Kiu residents who work in Nairobi now only come home at weekends, he added
7/7 Some want the old rail line revived. It was called 'the Lunatic Express' when British colonialists built it more than a century ago as it cost the lives of thousands of construction workers from British India. Read more: reut.rs/37xOeEs
