Sri Lanka Railways Forum

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 carriages have not arrived yet. The existing second class compartments are far lower in quality than the new third class carriages.

Each of these 96-seat carriages was priced at Rs. 30 million.

Update: SLR Forum Team was present at the Maradana railway station on 21/10/2007 to check on the new carriages but as we expected there were no new carriages on the Ruhunu Kumari express train. We expect the new carriages to be added tomorrow.

Update2: As we expected the Ruhunu Kumari express train with nine new carriages left for Matara from Colombo, today (22/10/2007) at 3.50 PM.

Source: Colombo Page / Sri Lanka Railways Forum

Tags: carriages, china, colombo, express trains, matara, ruhunu kumari, stainless steel

                            

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