The Railway from Colombo up to Ambepussa was ceremonially opened on December 27, 1864 by the Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgium throne (later King Leopold II) who happened to be holidaying in the island at the time. Many guest invitees, including Sir Henry Ward, participated in the historic journey.
The first train was hauled [...]
On the 31st of December, 2009, not only the year 2009 ends, but so does the first decade of the 21st century. It has been a challenging year and a rather revolutionary decade. Never before we encountered so many innovations that have the ability to make the life better than in the 2000s.
Sri Lanka Railways [...]
The Sri Lanka Railways Forum Team is happy to announce that our railway picture gallery is back online, you can visit the gallery by clicking on the gallery link above in the menu bar , we hope our views like it, and soon we hope to add more photos to the gallery, thank you for your support, [...]
The “Railways of Sri Lanka” book written by Dr. David Hyatt (published by COMRAC) in 2000, which is considered as an encyclopedia about Sri Lanka Railways, has more then 400 pages of data on all aspects on SLR, which covers the history of the various lines from inception to the present day(2000) in great detail. Numerous maps, [...]
As many of our readers already know our Main Picture gallery is offline at the moment, we are doing everything possible to fix it, in the mean time we have created another temporary gallery at here: http://gallery.slrfc.org, we will upload new pictures here untill the old one is Fixed,
We have upload some pictures taken at [...]
We wish all our readers a happy Sinhala/Thamil New Year 2009, we hope to serve Sri Lanka Railway Fans better this year, with more day to day updates, more photos, updated timetable, etc.., thank you for supporting us for 2 Years
We will be going on a Trip by train on 20th this month, any one who wants [...]
For the past few weeks you all might have noticed that our photo Gallery is not working, this is due to a database error, our web team is working on this problem and they will fix it soon as possible, sorry for the inconvenience.
Thank you, Sri Lanka Railways forum
We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our dear readers a very Happy and Merry Christmas and very prosperous New Year 2009!
May the New Year bring peace, happiness and success to you and all your wishes be fulfilled.
