The recent closing of a Transport Ministry tender for 15 rail locomotives has brought back the ghosts of the last such tender.
Out of 10 French locomotives imported in 2000 at a cost of Rs 1.9 billion, seven of them were non functional and had to be scrapped due to various electrical and mechanical problems stemming [...]
Stagnation without promotions in the Railway Department for the past 15 years has irked its employees; the JVP affiliated All Ceylon Railway Employees’ General Union (ACREGU) said.
As a result of stagnating in their posts the railway employees have been compelled to go on retirement in the same post they were in, while the political appointees [...]
There was a rail link to India until 1964, with services from Madras to Colombo (the Indo-Ceylon Express). From Madras Egmore passengers took the Rameshwaram Exp. (then known as the “Boat Mail”).
The MG track went through Pamban and reached a pier at Dhanushkodi, the southern tip of the island of Rameshwaram and about 27km from [...]
With the helpful and devoted hard work of two social workers of the area, the Ahungalla Railway Station and its access road was opened during the colonial days on 26.11.1947.
Similarly, the adjoining Maha Kumbura Ela (Drainage channel) and its road was opened on 09.05.1968 by an officer of the Ceylon Civil Service who was then [...]
Railways Minister, Dulles Alahapperuma’s failure to rectify the salary anomalies created by the 2006/7 controversial salary circular, and non-allocation of sufficient funds for the distress loan scheme have irked railway employees, the All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACREGU) told The Morning Leader.
Although Alahapperuma on several occasions had promised to address the grievances he has [...]
About 5000 are employed whose jobs are attached to the All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACREGU) are threatening to launch trade union action if the department fails to grant them an eight hour shift.
Transport Ministry secretary Nihal Somaweera says the eight-hour shift cannot be applied to certain technical categories in the Sri Lanka Railways [...]
Railway unionists yesterday called the National Salaries and Cadre Commission ‘a white elephant’ living on public money, without providing any solutions to salary anomalies problems in the Railway Department.
“Two years have lapsed since its appointment. During these two years, the Commission had come up with nothing but hair splitting arguments. It failed to bring any [...]
