The C.G.R. Station Masters’ Union, which struck work at midnight on Monday, protesting over salary anomalies, has decided to continue the strike crippling train services across the country.
Yesterday morning a number of railway stations did not issue tickets to commuters and people had travelled without tickets.
A Transport Ministry spokesman told The Island that the Ministry [...]
Commuters manhandling the drunken engine driver.
Railway commuters of Colombo bound Rambukkana train assaulted its allegedly drunken engine driver at the Mirigama Station last Wednesday for driving the train in an erratic manner. He was driving the train without giving enough time for commuters to get in or out from the train, stopping in between stations, [...]
Yal Devi made her maiden journey on April 23, 1956, with two other trains, Udarata Menike and Ruhunu Kumari and because of this many, Sri Lankans considered them as three sisters.
Trains no longer arrive at the Jaffna railway station. The familiar ‘kuchu kuchu’ of locomotive engines and the ‘hoooooo’ of their whistles, no longer rent [...]
The Railways Department has upgraded the signal system on the coastal railway line at a cost of Rs 80 million.
The operation of the signal system which was installed with the assistance of the Netherlands Government was handed over to the railway main control room in Colombo yesterday. “Under the project, a technologically advanced signal system [...]
A railway strike is in the offing, The Organization for Protection of the Properties and the Rights of Railway Employees (OPPRRE) warned it would seek the support of engine drivers to curtail operations if its demands were not met.
OPPRRE said that it had already decided to go on strike from tomorrow claiming there was no [...]
