The Government is to commence an intercity train service between Colombo Fort and Anuradhapura with a maximum travel time of three hours.
Sri Lanka Railways Department said a rehearsal run will be held tonight to ensure the shortened travel time.If successful the Railway Department hopes to commence this special train service from next month.
Currently the time [...]
It was the late evening of Saturday the 14th, December. I was a passenger in the Colombo bound intercity train from Nanu Oya. When it reached Ihalakotte, a small station situated between Kadugannawa and Kadigamuwa, the train was stopped by the control room to give way to a Kandy bound train, which should have reached [...]
This is not just an unruly group of passengers who interrupted the duties of the SLR men. I was part of the huge crowd of the Kelani Valley (KV) railway line who gathered to protest and asked for a remedy to the delays in the KV line. Delays of 30min-1.5hrs have become the norm for [...]
A Ticket To Paradise – The olden day steam engines are still used for special trips
Taking a trip to the hill country or even travelling down south is always a beautiful experience in Sri Lanka.
The hill country is a picturesque carpet of tea bushes with majestic bungalows and quaint villages, while in the south one [...]
Sri Lanka Railways, in a move to upgrade its services and make railways the main medium of public transport, has modernised the Colombo-Kandy-Colombo Intercity service with new railway carriages imported from China.
Transport Minister Dallas Alahapperuma yesterday said: “We want to make the railways the favoured mode of transport by the public and if the operation [...]
