The Railway Department has drawn up plans to increase railway fares by 60 percent, department sources said. The proposal, containing a table of increased fares together with necessary suggestions, had recently been submitted to Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma by the relevant officers of the Ministry, sources said. According to the new rates, the minimum fare [...]
The Railway Department has announced that Train services on the Northern Line will be suspended due to some inspection work to be carried out on the rail tracks between Kurunegala and Maho. This temporary suspension will be active between the hours of 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM from the 5th of March until the 13th [...]
Model Railroad Club of S.Thomans’ College, Mount Lavinia has organized an exhibition of model trains, miniature aircrafts and miniature vehicles. Which is scheduled to be held on 29th of February and 1st of March 2008 at the college hall. The exhibition will be declared open on 29th at 11.30 am. It is to be kept [...]
Bomb Hoax in Aluthgama Train A bomb scare interrupted the Aluthgama bound train from Colombo in Moratuwa short while ago causing panic among hundreds of passengers who immediately vacated the train. Some passengers suffered minor injuries while rushing out of the train. It was later found that the bomb scare was a hoax. Sampath Bank [...]
Questions have been raised as to how the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR) spent Rs.7.5 million on the Deyata Kirula exhibition at a time the department could not allocate funds for distress loans for its employees, the All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACRGU) said. SLR’s massive expenditure on Deyata Kirula has irked its employees according [...]
Railway employees are up in arms against the recruitment of armed forces personnel to the railway security which they say violates the recruitment procedure of the department and place the department employees at a disadvantage. All Ceylon Railway Employees’ General Union (ACREGU) charges that the attempt is to give appointments to political henchmen, under the [...]
A major fire broke out today on the grounds of the Ratmalana Railway Yard (Mechanical Engineering Department Yard) located opposite the Ratmalana Domestic Airport. The department said that rolling stocks that were brought to the yard for repairs as well as some spare parts were damaged in this fire accident. The fire that began around [...]
Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda has made arrangements to provide access facilities to railway stations for the use of the disabled, Minister’s Coordinating Secretary Nelson S. Edirisinghe said. Edirisinghe said as Head of the National Council of the Persons with Disabilities, Devananda has granted Rs. 931,617 to Sri Lanka Railways General Manager [...]