The Railway Department yesterday pledged that all unprotected railway crossings countrywide will be installed with gates if necessary funds are released by Local Government authorities. According to Railway higher authorities over 200 railway crossings, especially in the rural areas will have to be installed with either rail gates or signal lights.
Speaking to the Sunday Observer [...]
To provide facilities in transport for the disabled at railway stations was the brain child of the Ministry of Social Services and Social Welfare together with the Sri Lanka Railway Department.
N.G. Kamalawathi, a representative of the National Council of Disabled People in Sri Lanka who was present at the occasion expressed her gratitude to the [...]
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 [...]
Millions of commuters will be stranded at railway stations tomorrow as Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union (SLRSMU) goes on strike, crippling the train services from midnight today. The SLRSMU claimed that over 1,000 station masters around the island will take part in the strike.
“All the unions have offered their support for our cause and [...]
I was ten years old then, and living with my parents in our ancestral village of Galwadugoda, Galle. Our house was situated besides the railway track – the Coast Line that ran from Colombo to Galle and Matara. As many a child of that age would do, I spent long hours of my leisure near [...]
The collection stall was open for five days in front of the Colombo Fort Railway Station. A poor schoolchild may have contributed a bottle of water and even beggars were seen to give a few rupees. The thought and the motivation to contribute were as important as the contribution itself.
The “Train of Brotherhood” collected about [...]
Commemorating the fourth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s unprecedented tragedy of the deadly Tsunami, the Railway Department is scheduled to launch today the repaired engine of the train that was struck by the tsunami in 2004.
The historical first journey of the engine will commence at about 6:30 a.m. today from the Fort Railway station with the participation of [...]
The four day long work to rule campaigned by the Locomotive Operating Engineers Union (LOEU) is to further hamper the railway service in the country unless the four employees that were sacked following the Ganemulla railway tragedy two months ago are reinstated , Chief Secretary, LOEU, Mahinda Karunaratne said.
Taking into consideration the Railway Department’s decision [...]
