The All Ceylon Railway Employees’ Union (ACREU) queries whether the ‘Colombo Gedara’ is a genuine commuter requirement. Railway employees are skeptical as to whether the project would fulfil the urgent need for facilities to train and bus commuters, the union said.The commuter toilet at the Fort Railway station has been sold out. The commuters are [...]
Colombo to Anuradhapura in three hours
The Railway Department has successfully trial run a Class S10 DMU between Colombo Fort and Anuradhapura in just three hours. The trail run that was conducted on the 17th of December was intended to test the railway tracks that were renovated from the fifth to the 15th of this month. [...]
The Sri Lanka Railway Department is to introduce four new Intercity Express train services from Colombo Fort to Trincomalee, Batticoloa and Badulla from the 1st of January 2009. These new Intercity Express train services will address the long felt needs of the people of Trincomalee, Batticoloa and Badulla.
The new Trincomalee Intercity Express train will leave [...]
Several families living along the Meethotamulla railway line in Kolonnawa have been asked by the Railway Department to demolish their illegal constructions. Meanwhile the people living in the area allege that the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has plans to place an additional pipe line in this area as well.
However, they have not received any compensation or [...]
Railway unions yesterday charged that the Mahinda Rajapakse administration is still working on a plan to privatise the Sri Lanka Railway (SLR).
The All Ceylon Railway Employees General Union (ACREGU) said that Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma’s statement on the government looking at private sector partnership to revive the country’s railway system was proof that the government [...]
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First main line diesel locomotive used in every main line passenger transport in Ceylon. Only successful locomotive which was in operation for nearly three decades other than the Canadian Locos M2 and M4.
The legendary M1 on an up-country [...]
Dullas says obtaining its know-how would not be tantamount to privatization.
Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said he would not hesitate to obtain the assistance of the private sector to make the Sri Lanka Railways an efficient and productive state asset that fulfills the aspirations of the public and commuters in particular, if the Railway Department hierarchy [...]
The nineteenth century was destined to be area which evoked a profound socio-economic transformation in the island of Sri Lanka. The expansion of plantation agriculture and the opening up of the island by roads and later railways were two most important developments experienced by Sri Lanka following the establishment of British Colonial rule.
In the 1830’s [...]
