Yal Devi train once again limited to Medawachchiya
Sri Lanka Railway Department has decided to limit the Vavuniya bound “Yal Devi” train once again to Medawachchiya, border city of the North Central Province.
Railway Department said they have taken this decision as the northern rail track ending at Kankasanthurai in Jaffna peninsula is currently undergoing repairs.
Due to the terrorist activities of LTTE rebels the Jaffna bound Yal Devi train had was limited to Vavuniya in the last decade. Reportedly the rebels have uprooted the rail line in the rebel controlled areas to build bunkers.
Earlier for insufficient security in Vavuniya the train service was limited to Medawachchiya, but after the liberation of entire Kilinochchi district the train service was restarted to Vavuniya beginning of this year.
Source: ColomboPage
Tags: colombo, jaffna, maintenance, medawachchiya, rail track, train service, vavuniya, yazh devi
March 24th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Pls send us web site of the “Yal Devi project” to donate money.
Even we are out of the country we like to contribute to this project.
Good work. keep it up.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Kapila Dissanayake here is the website that you you donate from.
it gives full progress updates on how far the project has come so far and other information.
http://www.uthurumithuru.org/