India has pledged to provide rail buses to be operated between Batticaloa and Trincomalee and Colombo, Health Minister of the Eastern Provincial Council M.L.A.M. Hizbullah said yesterday.
Accordingly, 67 sets of rail buses will be given to improve the transport services. Each set comprises two buses, and more can be added if the need arises. Seven [...]
Sri Lanka’s long-neglected railway system can be a more useful complement to roads and could take up much of the bulk freight transport, reducing traffic jams significantly. In a recent BIG Issue interview the Colombo Mayor stated that every effort will be taken to reduce the traffic problem in curtailing the inflow and outflow of [...]
The Indian Railways recently signed an inter-governmental agreement on Trans Asian Railway Network (TARN). This agreement on TARN has been approved under the aegis of the United National Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (UNESCAP). This dream project is likely to cost about Rs 3,000 crore to the Indian Railways in particular.
According to Railway [...]
Although it was estimated that one billion rupees would be needed to repair the damage, caused to the Southern rail track, by the tsunami of four years ago, a group of railway employees volunteered their service and completed the restoration of the track, which experts said would take one year, in 57 days at a [...]
Sri Lanka government plans to launch its first rail bus service between Trincomalee and Batticaloa, in the Eastern Province of the country from next January.
M.A.L.M Hisbullah, one of the senior ministers in the Eastern Provincial Council said the new rail bus service will commence with 4 buses on January 14th with the assistance of the [...]
A proposal to build a railway line between Sri Lanka and India has been included in the agenda of the next SAARC Transport Ministers meeting to be held in Sri Lanka, a senior Minister said yesterday.
Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma told parliament at the committee stage debate of the Transport Ministry that his Ministry was working [...]
Sri Lanka may get another term loan of $100 million for building railway projects, sources said. Significantly, soft loans worth $200 million for Sri Lanka is quite high when compared with India’s total bilateral disbursement of $500-million soft loans for the entire FY08.
The investment and trade promotion (ITP) division of the ministry of external affairs [...]
The Railway Department has repaired 155 railway carriages and 26 railway locomotives since 2006 and these carriages and locomotives have been successfully introduced by the Railway into regular service. The department has also successfully renovated 122 Railway Station since 2006.
The Railway has been able to construct new railway bridges over Kaluthara, Keleniya, Pingwatta, Seeduwa, Ja [...]
