All trains are likely to be subjected to routine security checks in future following two false bomb scares on two South bound trains at Mt. Lavinia yesterday, Railway authorities said.
The Galle bound Samudradevi train was stopped for about half and hour yesterday at the Mt. Lavinia Railway Station after the passengers claimed they noted the [...]
General Manager, Railways Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan said the efficiency of the train service would depend entirely on the employees’ dedication to duty and that they should be conscious of their responsibility to provide a satisfactory service to the public while safeguarding their rights. Addressing a gathering at the commissioning of an additional signal system to [...]
Amila Randhika, a student of De Mazenod College, Kandana has invented a signal grid equipment to minimise injuries caused to train commuters during an accident.
The invention is expected to minimise damage and harm caused to commuters during the train journey. Amila met Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma at the Ministry and explained features and benefits of [...]
The CGR is blaming the Roads Development Authority for the damage caused to the main signals system during excavation work near the Urugodawatte railway station.
Train services on the main line had been paralysed for the past two days by the RDA, Transport Ministry sources said.
The RDA had carried out the excavation without informing the CGR.
CGR [...]
Seeking a speedy solution to the five demands the railway employees’ have been agitating for in the past one year, the Joint Railway Services Trade Union Front (JRSTUF) is to initiate a work-to-rule campaign commencing September 24, JRSTUF sources said.
The government’s failure to rectify the salary anomalies in the lower grades and also the failure [...]
The 24 hour railway token strike from Sunday midnight to Monday midnight, called by several Railway Employee Trade Unions proved a total flop as train services continued their usual schedule uninterrupted the whole day yesterday.
Contrary to early speculation based on Union leaders’ predictions where they claimed that about 90 per cent of train services would [...]
Train services are expected to be disrupted today as about 10,000 railway employees launch a token strike from 12.00 midnight yesterday over a salary and allowance issue.
All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACREGU) that represents 12 trade unions said in a statement yesterday that the authorities have failed to address their salary and allowances issues [...]
The Ceylon Government Railway (C.G.R.) which was formed in 1862 for the main purpose of laying the rail route to Kandy to meet the requirements of the planters has played a vital role in the economic development of the country.
Ceylon being a colony of the British empire almost all requirements for the Railway came from [...]
