The Railway Department has decided to expand the Colombo- Nanu-Oya express train service which is restricted to weekends, to others days of the week as well. “This service will be available from the 30th of November to the first of January,” said Wijeya Samarasinghe, Commercial Superintendent of Railways. According to the Commercial Superintendent this move [...]
The Government will launch two new rail-bus services between Gal Oya and Trincomalee and Gal Oya and Batticaloa in the Eastern Province under the Negenahira Navodaya project. The project aims to provide quick and affordable transport facilities to commuters in the East. A Sri Lanka Railway’s Spokesman told the Daily News that the rail-bus service [...]
Changing scenes from Colombo Fort to Jaffna N. Senthilkumaran takes an ‘armchair train ride’, a compilation of many trips made in the 1980s and early 1990 from Colombo Fort to Jaffna/Kankasanthurai (KKS) on the Yal Devi Colombo Fort Station; 5.30 a.m. In the pre-dawn darkness, I move past the ticket checker and look for the [...]
The Yal Devi intercity train that runs from Colombo Fort to Vavuniya derailed this morning at around 7.45 am near the Girambey sub-railway station that lies between Polhagawela and Potuhara, Media Officer for the Railway Department Wijeya Samarasinghe said. Speaking to Daily Mirror online Samarasinghe said that the engine of the train had reportedly jumped [...]
The Government will shortly commence upgrading of the southern coastal railway to enable trains to travel at over 100 km per hour. The Indian Government has pledged US $ 168 million to Sri Lanka to implement a comprehensive project for upgrading the Colombo-Galle-Matara coastal railway line. The first stage of the upgrading of the track [...]
The Transport Ministry yesterday sought parliamentary approval for a Supplementary Estimate of Rs. 4,750 million to purchase power sets, engines and to upgrade the coastal railway line. Chief Government Whip, Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Minister Dinesh Gunawardene presented the paper to the House. The explanatory note of the paper said that in 2009 [...]
Several railway passengers were inconvenienced at the Vavuniya Railway Station during the last few days due to their failure to produce the correct tickets when they disembarked. They complained to the Station Master at Vavuniya that when boarding the Yal Devi at Colombo Fort they paid the correct fare and asked for tickets to Vavuniya [...]
Train No. 400 Down, known as the ‘Indo-Ceylon Night Mail’ was, at the time, scheduled to run from Talaimannar Pier to Colombo as an exclusive passenger train on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays (known as ‘boat days’), leaving the Pier at 9 P.M. It provided a link to the ferry service across the Palk Straight from [...]