Sri Lanka Railway possesses many different kinds of locomotives. The age of which varies from 5 to 52 years. General Motors and Alco are more popular models due to their reliability; other engines used are Paxman Valenta, Caterpillar and Ruston.
The H.P. of running line locos vary from 1000 H.P.-2400 H.P. MTU 1200 H.P. engines are [...]
The Railway Department’s General Manager, Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan said that discussions are under way to purchase 20 power sets from India under a credit line.
India has also pledged a concessionary loan facility to improve the Southern railway line under the tsunami reconstruction. The Indian power sets are in addition to the 15 power sets ordered [...]
In a positive development in the country’s rail system, an experimental run of two Chinese carriages was carried out successfully by the Railway Department recently.
The experimental run was carried out in order to determine whether the carriages are fit to run on the country’s existing railway lines.
Speaking to The Morning Leader, General Manager, Sri Lanka [...]
Sri Lanka Railway Department General Manager Lalithasiri Gunaruwan says that discussions are underway to purchase 20 power sets from India under a credit line.
India has also pledged a concessionary loan facility to improve the Southern railway line under tsunami reconstruction.
The Indian power sets are in addition to the 15 power sets ordered from China that [...]
Minister Dulles Alahapperuma is optimistic of making the train service the country’s leading passenger transport service as assured in the “Mahinda Chintana”.
Speaking at a ceremony organised to introduce the new railway carriages imported from China to service, the Minister said this was only a beginning. He recalled that the President in launching the “Mahinda Chintana” [...]
Sri Lanka Railway’s Ruhunu Kumari express train that leaves for Matara from Colombo, Maradana railway station at 3.40 PM, tomorrow will be coupled with nine of the newly imported 25 railway carriages from China, announced the Railway Department.
Three of these third class carriages will be put for the second class temporarily since the ordered second class [...]
The new railway carriages purchased for the Sri Lanka Railways from China will make their first journey next week from Colombo to Matara.
According to the Railways Department, 10 out of the 25 Chinese railway carriages which arrived in the country last month will be attached to the Ruhunu Kumari express train operating from Colombo to [...]
The ten railway engines imported from France during the administration of President Chandrika Kumaratunge appears to have ended up as a white elephant. According to reliable sources, nine out of the ten engines are said to be beyond repair due to crankshaft defects and are lying at a railway grave- yard at Ratmalana, covered with [...]
