The Railway Department yesterday pledged that all unprotected railway crossings countrywide will be installed with gates if necessary funds are released by Local Government authorities. According to Railway higher authorities over 200 railway crossings, especially in the rural areas will have to be installed with either rail gates or signal lights.
Speaking to the Sunday Observer [...]
Dec 27 car-train collision at Kurana, Katunayake
The Sri Lanka Railways said that one of the worst train-car collisions at a rail crossing could have been easily averted had the driver of the ill-fated vehicle heeded an SLAF officer’s warning. The tragedy at a Kurana-Katunayake rail crossing on December 27 claimed the lives of five persons, [...]
A deadly train-car collision which occurred yesterday at Kurana-Katunayake rail crossing around 10.15 a.m. resulted in the death of five family members including his wife, his two children and their grandmother. The husband who sustained serious injuries and admitted to the Colombo National Hospital, succumbed to his injuries at the Colombo National Hospital, Police Media [...]
Over ten people were injured when two trains collided at Botale in Mirigama a short while ago.
The department of railways said Train services along the main line were temporarily disrupted after the collision between the Medawachchiya bound express train and a railways service train.
Source: Sri Lanka Railways Forum
A train collided with Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena’s private vehicle in Kamburugamuwa today injuring two people. The Minister was not in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Source: Daily Mirror
The Railways Department is to install a new protective device at unprotected level crossings in an effort to prevent the loss of lives and the destruction of vehicles due to collisions with speeding trains at such level crossings. In the past, hundreds of lives have been lost annually due to accidents of this nature. Financial [...]
The Badulla bound Udarata Manike express train from Colombo Fort derailed near the Veyangoda station around 10.30 today when a Powerset on a dry run collided into its observation saloon.
The collision forced the Udarata Manike express to detail as well as disrupting train services on the affected line. The derailment caused some minor damages and [...]
