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 went [...]
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 rebels the [...]
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 Sri Lanka Railway Department is to introduce four new Intercity Express train services from Colombo Fort to Trincomalee, Batticoloa and Badulla from the 1st of January 2009. These new Intercity Express train services will address the long felt needs of the people of Trincomalee, Batticoloa and Badulla.
The new Trincomalee Intercity Express train will leave [...]
The 5.45 a.m. Yal Devi Express Train from Colombo which terminated at Medawachiya on the Northern line will be extended to Vavuniya from today (December 16).
GMR Lalithsiri Gunaruwan getting down from Yal Devi at Vavuniya
The train service between Colombo Fort and Vavunia will resume tomorrow (Dec. 16), says the Railway Control Room at Anuradhapura.
This service was suspended some 10 months ago. Railways authorities say that initially a single train will leave Colombo Fort. Accordingly, the ‘Yarl Devi’ which leaves Colombo Fort at 5.45 am will be extended up to [...]
Yal Devi made her maiden journey on April 23, 1956, with two other trains, Udarata Menike and Ruhunu Kumari and because of this many, Sri Lankans considered them as three sisters.
Trains no longer arrive at the Jaffna railway station. The familiar ‘kuchu kuchu’ of locomotive engines and the ‘hoooooo’ of their whistles, no longer rent [...]
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday urged the government to re-start the Colombo – Vavuniya ‘Yal Devi’ express train service by next Monday, as promised by the Transport Minister.
Wanni District MP Sivanatha Kishore said the people of the North faced many hardships because of the government’s decision to stop the train service at Medawachchiya instead [...]
