Continued from February 15
He pulled out his note pad and wrote: “Mr. Lelwela has been entrusted with the work of doing up the minister’s room. For this purpose he is hereby authorized to assume all powers of the GMR. Staff of other sub departments should take his orders and ensure that their work component is [...]
It was by a quirk of circumstance that my friend and batch mate AGA and I found ourselves in the office of Mr. Vaithialingam at Railway Headquarters one day about the end of June 1960. This amiable, gentle person was the Chief Engineer, Way and Works, Sri Lanka Railways.
Year after year for several years he [...]
The C.G.R. Station Masters’ Union, which struck work at midnight on Monday, protesting over salary anomalies, has decided to continue the strike crippling train services across the country.
Yesterday morning a number of railway stations did not issue tickets to commuters and people had travelled without tickets.
A Transport Ministry spokesman told The Island that the Ministry [...]
A spokesman of the Railway Department said a 24 hour-special train service will be operative to provide transport to commuters during this period. These special train services are due to leave for several destinations from Colombo.
Special train services will be operated between Colombo and Hatton during the current festive season, according to the Sri Lanka [...]
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 [...]
