People living in Hambantota have pledged to extend support to rebuild the railway line and railway station in Jaffna on a special request by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told the Daily News. Meanwhile, people living in Matara have also come forward to offer their support to reconstruct the railway line and railway [...]
Continued from February 15 He pulled out his note pad and wrote: “Mr. Lelwela has been entrusted with the work of doing up the minister’s room. For this purpose he is hereby authorized to assume all powers of the GMR. Staff of other sub departments should take his orders and ensure that their work component [...]
What triggered my memory was an old (very) studio photo of my childhood self staring glumly at the camera while my infant sister timidly leaned towards me. Proudly embossed at the photo’s bottom was “Terminus Studio”. I seem to remember this venerable institution yet standing, till the early 1950s, on the triangular corner where Panchikawatta [...]
Since September last year, when the idea “hatched” about a combined exhibition on transportation, ten boys along with their teacher in charge and Warden and Sub-Warden have all but lost themselves in putting to action the once ‘only dreamt about’ project. Backed by the plan of Gihan, a former Thomian; the ten Thomians have worked [...]
It was by a quirk of circumstance that my friend and batch mate AGA and I found ourselves in the office of Mr. Vaithialingam at Railway Headquarters one day about the end of June 1960. This amiable, gentle person was the Chief Engineer, Way and Works, Sri Lanka Railways. Year after year for several years [...]
Never a day passes without some incident in the railways – derailments, delays, strikes, etc. To get to the root cause, it is best to go back to the era of the legendary B. D. Rampala and before, when the trains ran to time and derailments, accidents were very very rare. The derailments are mainly [...]
Deputy Minister of Road and Transportation and Managing Director of Iran’s Rail Road said Iran is ready to cooperate with Sri Lanka on construction and development of railway there. To follow the signed agreements between the two countries in the year of 2008, Hassan Ziari discussed the issue of cooperation on rail transportation with his [...]
Sri Lanka transport officials have estimated that nearly Rs. 4 billion is needed for the renovation of the Northern rail track which has severely damaged due to the war in the past decade. According to the Transport Ministry an assessment report has already been compiled on the damages caused to the rail track and other [...]