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 [...]
The overhead bridge for pedestrians now being constructed over the railway line near the Courts Complex (Kandy) would have to be dismantled when the planned additional railway track is constructed. The bridge is being constructed over the railway line near the Courts Complex as a number of people have been run over by trains while [...]
A second railway line from Peradeniya to Kandy is to be established by the Railway Department to meet the increasing demand for rail transport.
Railway officials told The Morning Leader that this second track from Peradeniya to Kandy is now in the design stage, although this has been planned by the Railway Department for a long [...]
A high level of Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES) delegation will visit Sri Lanka this month to give final shape to its $170 dollar project to upgrade Sri Lanka’s Southern Railway. “We have got the government approval for the project and the Attorney General is looking at the proposals before giving clearance”, said the [...]
The Cabinet has granted its approval to a Memorandum submitted by Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma on the setting up of a Fiber Optics Cable network running along-side the railway track.
The present network of railway tracks in the country stretches over a broad area of about 1200 kilometres.
Private sector companies have made requests to place on [...]
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. [...]
Toll: Twenty seven killed of whom nineteen were lawyers’ clients, claims Bar Association secretary
The lack of proper office facilities for lawyers at the new Courts Complex in Willam Gopallawa Mawatha, Kandy has forced them to open offices close to the railway line, posing a threat to the lives of clients with at least nine deaths being [...]
At a recent public meeting, the Hon. Minister in charge of Railways challenged that if he is unable to develop the railway he will resign. We hope it will not pave the way for him to go home after one year, if he fails to deliver the goods as Minister of Transport.
Every minister in all [...]
