While the rail engine (591) severely damaged by the Tsunami four years ago had been re-deployed on Friday (26), after extensive repairs, railway trade unions said that an engine sent for repairs to DIMO Ltd., hadn’t been repaired due to negligence on the part of the administration.
For want of payment, it had been left there [...]
“There was a time the Railways had been totally neglected and destined to a natural death. The 20% share of passenger transport by train in the National Transport had been reduced to 6% during this time. The plan was for the Railways to be fragmented and sold. But after the Mahinda Rajapaksa government was elected, [...]
Railway unions yesterday charged that the Mahinda Rajapakse administration is still working on a plan to privatise the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR).
The All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACREGU) said that Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma’s statement on the government looking at private sector partnership to revive the country’s railway system was proof that the government [...]
This article about the Jaffna Railway was first published by the Lines Magazine in 2004.
On August the 1st 1905 a train trundled its way into the newly built Jaffna railway station to be greeted by an expectant crowd. It was the first train travelling the through route from Colombo to Jaffna on tracks which had [...]
Nearly 1,500 employees in the Railway Department who had not been made permanent for the past 15 years will be absorbed into the permanent cadre. The appointment letters will be given by Minister Dullas Allahapperuma at the National Youth Services Council in Maharagama today.
The Minister told the Daily News these 1,500 employees of the CGR [...]
The Railway Minister’s failure to appoint a General Manager (Administration) and the Operations Officer to Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) has resulted in poor management in the railway department, Organisation for Protection of Properties and the Rights of Railway Employees (OPPRRE) said.
Convener, OPPRRE, Sumathipala Manawadu, while accusing Railway Minister, Dullas Alahapperuma for not appointing suitable officers [...]
