The reconstruction of the Omanthai Railway station on the Northern Line commenced Saturday (10) in an effort to speed up the completion of the rail line to Kankasanthurai.
The estimated cost for the Omanthai rail station is Rs. 20 million. It will be constructed with the assistance of the people of Galle and its suburbs. [...]
The CID has been called in to investigate the derailment of the Vavuniya bound mail train from Colombo at Galgamuwa after initial investigations revealed that part of the track had been removed early yesterday morning.
The Anuradhapura Railway Control Room said that the train had passed the Galgamuwa Station around 2.25 a.m. and the accident [...]
Salary anomalies of over 2,000 station masters in the Railway Department will be rectified before April with the approval of the Salaries and Cadres Commission, the Railway Operating Superintendent, Vijaya Samarasinghe said.
Speaking to the Sunday Observer, he said all information pertaining to station masters’ salary anomalies have already been submitted to the Salaries and Cadres [...]
The 48 hour token strike launched by Sri Lanka Railway Station Masters’ Union SLRSMU from Monday midnight came to an end last night.
The members of the SLRSMU had resorted to trade union action as the management of the Sri Lanka Railways continued to ignore their demands for years, General Secretary of the union W. Amarasena [...]
Station masters of the Sri Lanka Railway Department began a two-day strike today disrupting the train service and leaving thousands of train commuters stranded at train stations.
Demanding to resolve the salary problems and other few burning issues the Station Masters Union of Sri Lanka Railway department commenced the two-day strike from last midnight.
K.V Jayasena, the [...]
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 [...]
Train services on the main Wattala-Hunupitiya line were disrupted for around one and a half hours yesterday morning after a suspicious parcel found on the rail track created a bomb scare in the area, police said.
The army bomb disposal squad was summoned by the police as train services in the direction of Ragama came to [...]
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 time,” [...]
