The Sri Lanka Railways arrested 6,054 persons found travelling without tickets during May. The collected fines amounted to Rs.3.5 million. This was made up of fines levied for travelling without tickets, travelling second class using third class tickets, travelling beyond the destination mentioned in the ticket and illegal trading and begging. “Fifty four officials of [...]
Sri Lanka has reestablished the cargo transport using the country’s rail system for the first time in four decades with transporting a train-load of containers from the Trincomalee port to the Colombo port recently. SG Logistics, a part of the Expolanka group, carried out the operation to take the empty containers from the Prima Factory [...]
The Sri Lankan government has decided to award the contract to construct the Northern Rail way Line from Pallai to Kankasanthurai (KKS) to the same Indian company that is constructing the segment from Omanthai to Pallai. On a proposal put forward by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Cabinet has approved awarding the contract to Indian [...]
Reconstrcution of Sri Lanka’s Northern Railway Lline from Omanthai to Jaffna may be delayed due to de-mining issues, an Indian envoy has said. Deputy Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Vikram Misri has said the reconstruction work of the railway line undertaken by the Indian government could get delayed due to the de-mining programme. However, [...]
The Railway Authority decided to continue the weekend special express train from Colombo to Kandy as a daily train from 15th of this month. This express train leaves Colombo Fort at 9.30 a.m. and returns from Kandy at 5.30p.m. Source: Dailynews
Three of the 20 new power sets imported from India under an Indian loan scheme will arrive in Sri Lanka in mid-July. A Transport Ministry spokesman said under the Indian loan scheme, 20 new power sets and three units of locomotives will be provided to Sri Lanka. Six power sets out of 20 have already [...]
A railway disaster due to the removal of 160 ballast nails between Mailambaveli and Tannamunai on the Colombo – Batticoloa railway line had been averted due to the vigilance of the train’s engineer, railway sources said. The Batticaloa bound train had left Colombo Fort at engineer on Thursday July 7. The engineer however had been [...]
A Colombo Court yesterday ordered the squatters who had encroached on Railway property at Bloemendhal Road to show cause by August 2 as to why they should not be ejected from the land. When the matter was taken up for inquiry before Colombo Additional Magistrate Tikiri Bandara Jayathilaka, Counsel Gunaratna Wanninayake and Mervin De Silva [...]