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		<title>Double railway was blocked four decades back</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2010/02/21/double-railway-was-blocked-four-decades-back</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When someone proposes, there will be someone to oppose. This has been the sad state of affairs in Sri Lanka. This is due to poor planning, attitude and corruption.
I am neither an expert in planning nor an expert economist and I prefer to refrain from casting remarks about the projects and plans put forward by [...]


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		<title>Don’t Let Details Derail Rail Development 2</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2010/02/14/don%e2%80%99t-let-details-derail-rail-development-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having read Raisa Wickrematunge’s article under the above heading in your journal of 7th instant, it might be of interest to record an observation made by me for controlling the corrosion in rails in what seems a less expensive method than the application of anti-corrosive paint. This was during a walk along Marine Drive which [...]


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		<title>Railway transportation in 2020</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2010/01/17/railway-transportation-in-2020</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ceylon Government Railway was conceived in the 1850s and it is a legacy of British Rule. The first train ran on December 27, 1864 from Colombo to Ambepussa. Since then the Sri Lanka Railway network has been expanded to nine rail lines which are Main Line (Colombo to Badulla), Matale Line, Coast Line (Colombo [...]


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		<title>Bamboo gates and rail crossings</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/10/27/bamboo-gates-and-rail-crossings</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One evening in the mid 1990s, I had a narrow escape from an approaching train at a level crossing. The car I was driving was right on the rail crossing when I saw the train continuously hooting and heading towards me. It was raining and all my shutters were up. I did not hear the [...]


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		<title>Has ‘Udarata Menike’ derailed at Pattipola?</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/09/02/has-%e2%80%98udarata-menike%e2%80%99-derailed-at-pattipola</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am referring to one of the best programs of Rupavahini Channel in recent times &#8211; ‘Udarata Menike’ which was telecast on Saturdays at 7.30 p.m. 
For the past three weeks, this program was not on for whatever reason. Certainly, it is a very informative and educative program, unlike those teledramas all the time. 
The [...]


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		<title>Senior citizens and railway warrants</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/09/02/senior-citizens-and-railway-warrants</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friends planned a trip to Badulla. We decided to use our railway warrants, a perk that the British had left us, and which we had not used since retirement. So armed with appropriate forms from the Divisional Secretariat we went to the Fort Railway station. That’s where we were introduced to currents regulations. 
We [...]


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		<title>The development of Railways in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/07/20/the-development-of-railways-in-sri-lanka</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was first published in The Island newspaper in 2001.
The first sod was cut on 3rd August, 1858, by Governor, Sir Henry Ward. The first train conveyed H.R.H. the Duke of Brabant to Ambepussa from Colombo and back on the 27th December, 1864. The line up to Ambepussa was officially opened for on the [...]


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		<title>Train saga chugs along with Muthu Kumari</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/07/19/train-saga-chugs-along-with-muthu-kumari</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2009/07/19/train-saga-chugs-along-with-muthu-kumari#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers D. Gunasekara and Arul have suggested different names for the trains in Sri Lanka (ST of July 5 and 12), but regrettably have forgotten the Chilaw/Puttalam train ‘Muthu Kumari’ although it has been plying for 51 years.  
It is sad that they have ignored my ‘Kumari Muthu’ on which I travelled until my [...]


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