Sri Lanka Railway Department is to deploy additional train services to Kandy, Sri Lanka’s hill country, from tomorrow for the convenience of the people who wish to reach Kandy to see the Esala Perahera.
The Railway Department said the special train service will continue until the 6th of August when this year’s Esala festival of [...]
Six hundred railway workers of all grades from labourer to engineer will be sent for advance training in India, Transport Minister Dallas Alahapperuma said at the ceremony to inaugurate the Batticaloa- Trincomalee rail bus service on Wednesday at the Batticaloa Railway Station.
Alhapperuma said that he wanted to do away with the earlier practice of sending [...]
Sri Lanka Railways is to resume its night mail service between Vavuniya and Colombo from tomorrow.
Speaking at a special function held this morning in Vavuniya, the Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said that the first night mail train will leave Vavuniya rail station at 9:45 p.m. tomorrow after a lapse of one and half years. [...]
Train services on the COASTAL LINE will be curtailed from 22.00 hours on 31.07.2009(friday night) till 14.00 hours on 03.08.2009 (monday noon). As bridge repair at Benthota. Long distance trains from Colombo will terminate at Aluthgama, and a shuttle service will operate between Galle and Induruwa.
Source: Sri Lanka Railways
The Colombo Fort-Vavuniya train which up to now proceeded only to Medawachchiya will from tonight (July 30) will complete the entire journey to Vavuniya, said Transport Minister Dallas Alahapperuma this afternoon during a media conference at Vavuniya.
The Rajarata Regina night mail train too will proceed up to Vavuniya from August 01, added the Transport Minister. [...]
A combined railway-bus service will be launched next week to Jaffna for the convenience of the general public, Essential Services Commissioner General S.B. Divaratne said yesterday.
Under this programme, passengers going to Jaffna would be able to take the train from Colombo to Vavuniya and from there travel in buses on the A9 road to [...]
July 27, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s railway needs to raise fares and train travellers must be prepared to pay more to reduce losses and make the state-owned service viable, experts said.
Lalithasiri Gunaruwan, former general manager of Sri Lanka Railways, said the trains transport a large number of office workers to the capital Colombo and [...]
The Eastern Province railbus project was formally inaugurated in Batticaloa yesterday by Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Shri Alok Prasad, together with Dallas Alahapperuma, Minister of Transport and Basil Rajapaksa, Senior Advisor to the President.
Also present on the occasion were the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, Ministers Ameer Ali and [...]
