Train travel is getting easier these days with the inclusion of new units. But, the staff needs training very badly. Recently, I was waiting for the 1.20 p.m. Maradana train at Moratuwa Station. At 2.10 p.m. they announced that this train will come a little late. At 3.05 p.m. the 2.18 train came and the [...]
The Railway control room says the blast near Dehiwala was along a a rail track at Wasala Road, in Dehiwala.
According to the available information explosion occurred around 7.10 a.m and minor damages reported to the railway track, police sources added.
The Police have confirmed that the blast had targeted the Panadura-Colombo office train. According to reports [...]
A top official of a government body said freezing prices of government output was an ‘economic crime’ because the popular concept of ‘government bearing the burden’ had no factual basis.
“Suppressing prices and freezing them is an economic crime,” head of Sri Lanka Railways Lalithasiri Gunaruwan told reporters. “It is not raising prices that cause an [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened the flyover at Thorana Junction, Peliyagoda today (25th) at 7.00 am.
The iron flyover was completed in record time, all the work being done within 60 days.
The record was earlier held by the Philippines. The Philippines Government completed assembling the prefabricated Malos flyover in Manila in 66 days. It is 300 meters [...]
Cancellation of the last train to Panadura has resulted in hardships to hundreds of commuters from several areas including Bandaragama, and Horana.
The train which was scheduled to leave Maradana at 8.35 pm is not in operation at present and every day the time of the train from Slave Island to Koralawella is marked ‘cancelled’ in [...]
As an ‘old entrant’ to the public service, having joined the railway clerical service in May, 1951, I too agree with the views stated by U.G. Rodrigo of Panadura in the Daily News of December 3 under the Citizens’ Mail column.
I too was issued a ‘Blue Book’ which was known as the ‘Service Record Book’ [...]
