Sri Lanka and India will sign a memorandum of Agreement (Mou) to resume the ferry service between Sri Lanka’s Thalaimannar of the northwestern coast and Rameswaram in South India. A draft agreement to resume the ferry service disrupted by Sri Lanka’s separatist war, has been prepared according to the India’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka [...]
The Yaazh Devi express train that presently runs between Colombo and Vavuniya is to be extended to Omanthai. The decision to extend the service to Omanthai was taken by the Railways Department recently. In line with the decision, a Railways Engineers gang was send to Omanthai to survey the current situation. The Railway Engineers who [...]
Sri Lanka Railway Department has decided to limit the Vavuniya bound “Yal Devi” train once again to Medawachchiya, border city of the North Central Province. Railway Department said they have taken this decision as the northern rail track ending at Kankasanthurai in Jaffna peninsula is currently undergoing repairs. Due to the terrorist activities of LTTE [...]
A powerful explosion ripped through a railway track just outside the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday causing disruption to commuter services, police said. Police said there were no casualties following the blast at Mount Lavinia, but the Colombo-bound track was damaged and train services were suspended pending investigation. “Fortunately there was no train passing at [...]
The Government is to commence an intercity train service between Colombo Fort and Anuradhapura with a maximum travel time of three hours. Sri Lanka Railways Department said a rehearsal run will be held tonight to ensure the shortened travel time.If successful the Railway Department hopes to commence this special train service from next month. Currently [...]
I was ten years old then, and living with my parents in our ancestral village of Galwadugoda, Galle. Our house was situated besides the railway track – the Coast Line that ran from Colombo to Galle and Matara. As many a child of that age would do, I spent long hours of my leisure near [...]
The four day long work to rule campaigned by the Locomotive Operating Engineers Union (LOEU) is to further hamper the railway service in the country unless the four employees that were sacked following the Ganemulla railway tragedy two months ago are reinstated , Chief Secretary, LOEU, Mahinda Karunaratne said. Taking into consideration the Railway Department’s [...]
Train services on the main line were interrupted for over five hours last morning when a container truck hit the rail bridge at Biyagama Road, closer to Peliyagoda. The container crashed into the ‘Kalu Palama’ damaging the overhead railway lines, a railway official said. Railway workers attending the damaged Keleniya Bridge.