Running on a similar track to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) expansion project, the Sri Lanka Railways Department is making plans to construct an Internal Container Terminal (ICT) close to the commercial hub of Sri Lanka for the first time in the country’s history.
“We have already chosen Veyangoda, Ratmalana or Sapugaskanda to go ahead [...]
This was no Great Railway Journey, like the BBC ones of the eighties and nineties. In our brief journey, we skirted the north-western coast of Sri Lanka where the scenery is so different from what we see in other parts of the country. But what was particularly interesting was that this short hop between Puttalam [...]
Thirty eight years after ‘he’ has left the department, and fifty three years after ‘it’ first landed in our shores and majestically moved around on our tracks, cloaked in blue and silver livery, causing the countryside to reverberate to the high frequencies that it would generate, they (he and it both) are still being talked [...]
Social Services and Social Welfare Minister Douglas Devananda has made arrangements to provide access facilities to railway stations for the use of the disabled, Minister’s Coordinating Secretary Nelson S. Edirisinghe said.
Edirisinghe said as Head of the National Council of the Persons with Disabilities, Devananda has granted Rs. 931,617 to Sri Lanka Railways General Manager to [...]
