Following Cyclone Ditwah, India-supported restoration of cyclone-damaged sections of the Northern Railway Line has resumed service. The restoration work was funded with a USD 5 million grant as part ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A railway union strike stopped most trains across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers to brave the few dangerously overcrowded trains that kept ...

Sri Lanka’s railway trade unions launched a 48-hour token strike at midnight yesterday (16), after talks with the Government ...

A train pulls into a station during a test run along the newly constructed China-founded railway line in Beliatta, Sri Lanka, Jan. 6, 2019. The Sri Lankan Ministry of Transporton on Sunday conducted a ...

The Sri Lankan government on Monday inaugurated its fastest railway line, which has been built with the assistance of the Chinese government. Sri Lanka finished the construction of first 26.75-km ...

Workers work at a construction site of the first phase of the Matara-Kataragama railway extension project in Matara in southern Sri Lanka, on Jan. 12, 2018. The track-laying commencement of the first ...

The Indian High Commission said the move underlined the significance of modernisation of Railways in boosting mobility of goods and services in Sri Lanka. (Representational image) In a move aiming at ...

The Government of Sri Lanka has opened a railway line extension between Matara and Beliatta in the southern part of the country. The 26.75km-long rail link was inaugurated by Sri Lanka’s Transport and ...

The 26.75-km long Matara-Beliatta railway extension is the first to be constructed in Sri Lanka since 1948, and it has the country's longest and second longest railway bridges, measuring 1.5-km and ...