The Railway Department has drawn up plans to increase railway fares by 60 percent, department sources said.
The proposal, containing a table of increased fares together with necessary suggestions, had recently been submitted to Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma by the relevant officers of the Ministry, sources said.
According to the new rates, the minimum fare will be [...]
General Manager Railways Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan says special program has been prepared for the security of train passengers. The Railways Protection Force, Police and Security Forces are to work together to make sure that safety of the Railways is ensured.
These special security precautions include sudden security checks on passengers. The General Manager told SLBC that [...]
At a recent public meeting, the Hon. Minister in charge of Railways challenged that if he is unable to develop the railway he will resign. We hope it will not pave the way for him to go home after one year, if he fails to deliver the goods as Minister of Transport.
Every minister in all [...]
Train services on the southern line were held up for around three hours last Friday after the Kandy-bound express from Matara derailed at Dodanduwa.
The Ruhunu Kumari and the Matara Intercity were delayed as a result of this derailment, railway sources said.
The express which derailed had left Matara at 2.45 p.m. and was scheduled to reach [...]
One hundred Chinese made stainless steel carriages
Sri Lanka Railways purchased 100 stainless steel carriages from China at a total cost of 3570 million rupees. The carriages have been shipped to Sri Lanka in four batches of 25 each. Of these four batches, three batches totalling 75 carriages have already arrived on the island. The last [...]
The Ministry of Transport has planned to modernise all railway stations along the coastal belt in collaboration with the private sector which will be authorised to construct multi-storey buildings at the stations and renovate them.
The first phase of the project will include 12 railway stations where the private sector companies will be called upon to [...]
General Manager of Railways Dr.Lalithasiri Gunaruwan said that today’s train service on coastal line having long delays due to a signal failure.
” When CEB power goes off, generators should start automatically. But today due to some reason, those generators didn’t start properly soon after the CEB power cut off. Therefore railway signal system mainly on [...]
Sri Lanka Railway Department General Manager Lalithasiri Gunaruwan says that discussions are underway to purchase 20 power sets from India under a credit line.
India has also pledged a concessionary loan facility to improve the Southern railway line under tsunami reconstruction.
The Indian power sets are in addition to the 15 power sets ordered from China that [...]
