One person was killed and 32 people injured as the Polgahawela bound train and the Kandy bound intercity train collided at the Ganemulla station around 4 p.m yesterday, the Trains Control Room and Gampaha hospital sources said yesterday. According to initial reports the Kandy bound intercity express train that left Colombo Fort railway station [...]
A train collision has been reported from Ganemulla. The Fort-Polgahawela train has been parked at the station when the Fort-Kandy intercity train had arrived and collided from behind, damaging the last compartment of the parked train, according to eye witnesses. Sixteen persons are reported injured and dispatched to hospital. One male has been reported dead. Railways [...]
Sri Lanka’s long-neglected railway system is a useful complement to roads and could take bulk freight transport off the roads, reducing traffic jams, a senior official said. P P Wijesekera, additional general manager, Sri Lanka Railways, said rail is the best way to move export and import containers in and out of Colombo port. “For [...]
Due to the delay of over twenty minutes at the Rambukkana Station the Colombo Fort-Kandy express train which leaves Colombo at 5.45 p.m. is causing much inconvenience to those travelling to Kandy. This results in them missing their last bus to their destinations. This delay of over twenty minutes is for the change of the [...]
In the mid-1960s, the railways had a program to upgrade tracks and bridges in the system in order to permit heavier axle loads and higher speeds that have been proposed. Accordingly, the wrought iron bridge across Mahakandarawewa at 138m 40c near Medawachchiya on the Northern Line to Jaffna – consisting of three spans of 60ft [...]
Already embroiled in a controversial decision to grant prime coastal land on a long term lease to local and foreign companies in April last year, Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma is now stepping into further controversy by shipping 15 diesel power units for Sri Lanka Railway (SLR) paying US $ 200,588 or well over Rs. 24 [...]
Train services will be crippled from midnight today (24) by a ceaseless work-to-rule campaign, the Joint Railway Services Trade Union Front (JRSTUF) has warned. A continuous work-to-rule campaign will be launched starting from midnight today and nearly 4,000 technical staff members are to join the strike, JRSTUF Secretary Sampath Rajitha told The Bottom Line. “The [...]
The Railway Ministry’s failure to purchase power sets instead of carriages to streamline the railway service in the country has cost the Railway Department dearly, Organisation for Protection of Property and Rights of Railway Employees (OPPRRE) sources said. Despite numerous appeals made by railway employees to obtain power sets to fortify the country’s railway service, [...]