I was ten years old then, and living with my parents in our ancestral village of Galwadugoda, Galle. Our house was situated besides the railway track – the Coast Line that ran from Colombo to Galle and Matara. As many a child of that age would do, I spent long hours of my leisure near [...]
The Sri Lanka Railway Department is to introduce four new Intercity Express train services from Colombo Fort to Trincomalee, Batticoloa and Badulla from the 1st of January 2009. These new Intercity Express train services will address the long felt needs of the people of Trincomalee, Batticoloa and Badulla.
The new Trincomalee Intercity Express train will leave [...]
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 [...]
At long last, the proposed third platform at the Peradeniya station has become a reality. The newly constructed platform was commissioned for use on 1st December. The opening of this long proposed third platform will cut train travel by as much as 20 minutes and enable all upcountry trains to stop at Peradeniya.
Previously all upcountry [...]
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday urged the government to re-start the Colombo – Vavuniya ‘Yal Devi’ express train service by next Monday, as promised by the Transport Minister.
Wanni District MP Sivanatha Kishore said the people of the North faced many hardships because of the government’s decision to stop the train service at Medawachchiya instead [...]
Two new daily intercity express trains to ply between Fort and Nanuoya will be introduced to the public from tomorrow. One of the new trains will leave Fort Railway Station at 8:35a.m. and reach Nanuoya at 2:10 p.m. The second train will leave Nanuoya at 3:20 p.m. and arrive in Colombo at 9 p.m.
“Until now [...]
Pressing passenger issues must be addressed
Utter mayhem broke loose at Fort Railway Station a few days ago when a group of enraged passengers started attacking the railway workers and damaging the railway property.
Although it may seem just another case of civil unrest, caused by a single incident of trains being delayed, it commands a closer [...]
Out of the four forms of transport systems available to us in Sri Lanka – rail, road, air and shipping’ we have heard about people saying that the National Carrier – SriLankan Airlines – flying our Sri Lanka flag very high, as it is flying into other countries on schedule flights. But most of us [...]
