Overcrowded carriages and delays are the order of the day. The country's infrastructure is not adequate to support modern rail traffic. 72% of locomotives are over 40 years old: concerns about safety ...

Sri Lankan government today signed an agreement with IRCON international for upgrading of railway track with Indian concessional financing of around 91.26 million US dollars. The agreement is for ...

As much as trains are used for extensive travelling, ones like Yal Devi were recommenced to gain political mileage and to link communities which had drifted apart during the civil war We have a new ...

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PERALIYA, SRI LANKA - Sri Lanka on Sunday reopened a railroad line where a passenger train was swept away by the Dec. 26 tsunami, killing almost 2,000 people. The symbolic, 75-mile journey from the ...

IRCON International, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Indian Railways, has signed an agreement to upgrade the 130km-long railway line in Sri Lanka. The line, which runs from Maho town in ...