Train attendants pose for pictures at Nairobi station of the China-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in May 2018. Two of them, Mwaka and Sharon, were invited to perform in the 2018 CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Construction of the 480-km railway linking Kenya's largest port city Mombasa and capital Nairobi started in September 2014, and it was officially launched on May 31, 2017.