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		<title>Passenger Transit shelters: A timely move</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/12/23/passenger-transit-shelters-a-timely-move</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A transit shelter to house stranded passengers in the city of Colombo at night is a timely act of the Government. A Colombo University survey has revealed that over 100 passengers get stranded daily in Colombo at night.
Transport Minister Dallas Alahapperuma who laid the foundation stone for the first transit centre, named Colombagedera, quite rightly [...]


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		<title>A bouquet for Railways Minister Dullas Alahapperuma</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/12/18/a-bouquet-for-railways-minister-dullas-alahapperuma</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/12/18/a-bouquet-for-railways-minister-dullas-alahapperuma#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the late evening of Saturday the 14th, December. I was a passenger in the Colombo bound intercity train from Nanu Oya. When it reached Ihalakotte, a small station situated between Kadugannawa and Kadigamuwa, the train was stopped by the control room to give way to a Kandy bound train, which should have reached [...]


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		<title>Schoolboy invents device to curb railway mishaps</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/09/22/student-signals-new-way-to-prevent-train-accidents</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/09/22/student-signals-new-way-to-prevent-train-accidents#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amila Randhika, a student of De Mazenod College, Kandana has invented a signal grid equipment to minimise injuries caused to train commuters during an accident.
The invention is expected to minimise damage and harm caused to commuters during the train journey. Amila met Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma at the Ministry and explained features and benefits of [...]


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		<title>Indian help for railway sector</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/07/22/indian-help-for-railway-sector</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/07/22/indian-help-for-railway-sector#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian Government has pledged US $ 168 million to Sri Lanka to develop the island’s railways sector.
The financial assistance, provided under the Indian Credit Line (ICL) will be used to upgrade Sri Lanka’s coastal railway line hit by the 2004 tsunami and to strengthen the operating fleet of the Railways Department.
Though the coastal train [...]


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		<title>Railway colour light system extended</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/07/19/railway-colour-light-system-extended</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/07/19/railway-colour-light-system-extended#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The colour light signal and communication system of railways has been further extended at a cost of Rs. 3 billion, Transport Minister Dulles Alahapperuma said yesterday.
“On the coast line, colour light signals have been installed up to Matara and are controlled by the main centralized control panel at Maradana. Colour light facility is available up [...]


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		<title>Trains to run on bio-diesel from 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/07/07/trains-to-run-on-bio-diesel-from-2010</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/07/07/trains-to-run-on-bio-diesel-from-2010#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lanka Railways will run trains and powersets using bio-diesel by 2010 to curtail the drain on foreign exchange to import petroleum products, Transport Minister, Dullas Alahapperuma said yesterday.
The main source of producing bio-diesel will be Weta Endaru (Jetropha) which would be grown along the railway reservations on either side of the 1200 kilometre-long [...]


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		<title>Special service to Mihintale for Poson pilgrims</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/06/16/special-service-to-mihintale-for-poson-pilgrims</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/06/16/special-service-to-mihintale-for-poson-pilgrims#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Railways Department will operate a special train service from Matara to Mihintale on June 17 for pilgrims travelling to the sacred city for the Poson festival.
According to the Transport Ministry, the free train service named Sadaham Charika will commence from Matara at 7 pm on the day before the Poson Full Moom Poya (June [...]


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		<title>Train fares soar by 90 percent</title>
		<link>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/06/01/train-fares-soar-by-90-percent</link>
		<comments>http://www.slrfc.org/2008/06/01/train-fares-soar-by-90-percent#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SLRF Team</dc:creator>
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Hard on the heels of last Thursday’s hike in bus fares by 27.2 per cent, the Railway Department imposed a 90 percent increase in fares from yesterday.“The minimum fare will be doubled. The charge per kilometre has been increased by 90 percent,” the Railway’s Commercial Manager Wijeya Samarasinghe said.
Minister Dullas Alahapperuma The worst hit by [...]


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