Yal Devi made her maiden journey on April 23, 1956, with two other trains, Udarata Menike and Ruhunu Kumari and because of this many, Sri Lankans considered them as three sisters.
Trains no longer arrive at the Jaffna railway station. The familiar ‘kuchu kuchu’ of locomotive engines and the ‘hoooooo’ of their whistles, no longer rent [...]
SHORT STORY: “We meet all sorts of people in our lives and we have to put up with them. I felt sad for this guy. Later I learnt from the conductor that he was on the wrong train. He should have been on the Uda Rata Menike for he had a ticket to Uda Pussellawa.”
The [...]
The Galle bound Ruhunu Kumari express train was held up for about one hour at Wadduwa due to a bomb scare.
HQI Panadura police Dhammika Amaratunga said police teams from Wadduwa and Panadura police stations rushed to the scene on receiving a telephone call that a suspicious parcel was found in the train and carried out [...]
SLR Forum has gathered the following details on the new stainless steel Chinese carriages:
The first batch of 25 carriages arrived on September 25th and 10 of them have so far been deployed on the Ruhunu Kumari. One of the remaining 15 carriages was damaged while shunting and the rest are not being deployed due to [...]
It is a well-known fact that the Ruhunu Kumari express train that travels from Maradana to Matara in the afternoon is fully packed within seconds.
Last Friday it took only about ten seconds for the train to be filled.
Even going half an hour before the trains arrival, I could not manage to get a seat and [...]
Sri Lanka Railway’s Ruhunu Kumari express train that leaves for Matara from Colombo, Maradana railway station at 3.40 PM, tomorrow will be coupled with nine of the newly imported 25 railway carriages from China, announced the Railway Department.
Three of these third class carriages will be put for the second class temporarily since the ordered second class [...]
The recently imported Chinese railway carriages will be in operation from mid October, General Manager of the Sri Lanka Railways Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan said.
“Obtaining an International Standard Certificate for running conditions of the carriages on all railway tracks in the island is very important and these will be carried out before transporting passengers,” Dr. Gunaruwan [...]
