The causes which led to the decline of the railway are legion, running back to 1970 May. Enumerating the causes would run into hundreds of pages. To put it briefly the problem is mainly due to the railways being modelled on the British system, having been introduced by the Britishers when the island was a [...]
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 [...]
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The Sri Lanka Railways has lost a large extent of land in extent of 2,300 acres given on long term lease by the UNP government in contravention of the Railways Ordinance that provides only for a five-year lease of any land that belongs to the Railways, Minister of Transport and Railways, Dallas Alahapperuma told Parliament [...]
This very encouraging report appeared in the Daily News of December 18.
The railway authorities introduced new carriages imported from China at a cost of Rs. 30 million each, totalling Rs. 750 million in all.
It is a very laudable and most appreciable step taken by the railway authorities to offer comfortable and convenient service to the [...]
