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		<title>Railway&#8217;s locomotive dilemma</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent closing of a Transport Ministry tender for 15 rail locomotives has brought back the ghosts of the last such tender.
Out of 10 French locomotives imported in 2000 at a cost of Rs 1.9 billion, seven of them were non functional and had to be scrapped due to various electrical and mechanical problems stemming [...]


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		<title>Ill-fated locomotives that run on money</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/04/30/ill-fated-locomotives-that-run-on-money</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lankan Railway is beset with two perennial problems: Trains do not operate on scheduled times and the mounting losses occurring in the large-scale purchases of spares and other irregularities continue unabated.
The controversial purchase of the French Alstom engines is a case in point. Eight years ago ten such French engines, each costing Rs. [...]


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		<title>Multi billion tender attracts good response</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/03/13/multi-billion-tender-attracts-good-response</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lankan Railways (SLR) announced yesterday that over 20 prospective suppliers have collected tender applications from the Ministry of Transport in response to a recent worldwide tender issued by the Ministry to supply 15 locomotives at a cost of over Rs.4.5billion.
“We have received a big response for the tender and more than 20 prospective suppliers [...]


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