While Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma recently laid the foundation stone for the proposed dormitory for train and bus commuters in Colombo, the pro – JVP Railway Trade Unions want the sanitation facilities at the Fort Railway Station, presently controlled by a private company, to be taken back by the Railway Department, as commuters had to [...]
The lack of commitment to improve the country’s railway system has been the bane of the Sri Lanka Railway Department, the All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACREGU) alleged.
Chairman, ACREGU, S.P. Vithanage said that due to the lack of hydraulic and power set engines many railway carriages are idling in the railway yards rotting away.
According [...]
Ceylon Along The Rail Track, by Henry W. Cave – A Visidena Publication
Book Review: When 18-year-old Henry William Cave came out to Ceylon from England in 1872 as secretary to the controversial Anglican Archbishop of Colombo, Reginald Copple-ston, he no doubt had commercial ambitions like many of his fellow colonists. Unlike the majority who believed [...]
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 [...]
The railway network of Sri Lanka consists of 1,449 km. Railways contribute around 5% of passenger transport and 2% of goods transport. Though the accessibility to railway is not spread throughout the country it carries about 64 million passengers and almost 1.6 million metric tones of freight per annum, stated the Ministry of Finance and [...]
Transport Ministry will import 15 more powersets from China to improve Sri Lanka Railways transport services. The three of these power sets would arrive in June and the rest before the end of the year, Transport Ministry said in a press release.
The 300 million dollar worth power sets will be purchased on a loan provided [...]
Of the 100 railway carriages brought from China, 75 have been successfully put into operation with the existing carriages and have so far been running smoothly according to the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR).
According to SLR, the rest of the carriages are to be introduced by the end of the month. SLR also says that the [...]
Sri Lanka will be obtaining a US $ 170 million loan from Rites of India Limited, a subsidiary of the Indian Railway Department, to upgrade the Southern Railway line up to Matara.
The loan for implementation of the project will be granted under a credit line facility and the project will be implemented in two stages. [...]
