Sri Lanka and India will sign a memorandum of Agreement (Mou) to resume the ferry service between Sri Lanka’s Thalaimannar of the northwestern coast and Rameswaram in South India. A draft agreement to resume the ferry service disrupted by Sri Lanka’s separatist war, has been prepared according to the India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka [...]
The railway track from Medawachchiya to Talaimannar is to be re-erected. The Ircon company of India is in charge of construction. Minister Kumara Welgama and the Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Ashok K. Khanth signed the relevant agreement at the transport ministry today. The railway line is to be constructed under two stages from [...]
Work to be over before due date: Work on the Northern railway line from Thandikulam to Kankesanthurai and the Medawachchiya-Thalaimannar railway line have been expedited on Transport Minister Kumara Welgama’s instruction. India has provided 425 million US Dollars assistance to Sri Lanka for railway projects expecting speedy reconstruction and rehabilitation efforts in the Northern region. [...]
“Don’t be a fool, Girigoris” said Weerakoon, the foreman of the tunnel gang, Way and Works department, to his Minor Supervisor. They were getting down from the special service train near the tunnel No. 18, Pattipola, to unload the men, material and equipment from the train brought along with them for the purpose of carrying [...]
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 [...]
A deadly train-car collision which occurred yesterday at Kurana-Katunayake rail crossing around 10.15 a.m. resulted in the death of five family members including his wife, his two children and their grandmother. The husband who sustained serious injuries and admitted to the Colombo National Hospital, succumbed to his injuries at the Colombo National Hospital, Police Media [...]
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 [...]
Train services on the main line were interrupted for over five hours last morning when a container truck hit the rail bridge at Biyagama Road, closer to Peliyagoda. The container crashed into the ‘Kalu Palama’ damaging the overhead railway lines, a railway official said. Railway workers attending the damaged Keleniya Bridge.