Station masters island wide warn of a token strike starting at midnight of December 23 which will last for 48 hours over salary anomalies and several other issues, All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union Chairman S. P. Vithanage said yesterday on behalf of the All Island Station Masters Union.
“The station masters [...]
Train travellers from Matale expressed concern for depriving them of the facilities to reserve seats in the Kandy-Colombo Intercity Express Train at the Matale railway station. They pointed out that the Railway Department had assigned bookings to a private cellular phone supplier and that they were now accepted only at Peradeniya, Kandy, Gampaha and [...]
Northern bound railway commuters have protested of the body checks carried out by the security forces at the Medawachchiya Railway Station on all Yal Devi passengers.
They said majority of the North bound passengers use the Vavuniya night mail train but they are not subject to checks while all Yal Devi commuters have to disembark at [...]
The Government has introduced a system to reserve train seats over Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel phones under the name ‘Mobitel Ticketing’ to provide an easy and comfortable train ride for commuters.
This facility over Mobitel phones will commence under the patronage of Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma at the Fort Railway station tomorrow.
The Transport Ministry [...]
An additional air conditioned observation coach would be attached to the Podi Menike express train plying between Colombo Fort and Badulla, from December 6, for the convenience of Sri Pada pilgrims and to coincide with the school holidays.
The Podi Menike leaves Colombo Fort at 5.55 a.m. and reaches Badulla at 3.55 p.m. and on her [...]
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 platform from [...]
