Twenty power sets from India
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 from China that are to arrive in Colombo by mid next year.
Twenty-five carriages of the 75 ordered from China arrived last month and the others are due to arrive in the country by the end of this year.
Source: Sunday Observer
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