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railway station Code District Elevation m Distance between Colombo Fort Km; Colombo Fort: FOT Colombo: 4.87 0 Maradana: MDA Colombo: 5.46 2.08 Dematagoda: DAG Colombo: 3.05
The 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami train wreck is the largest single rail disaster in world history by death toll, with 1,700 fatalities or more. It occurred when a crowded passenger train (No 50, Matara Express) was destroyed on a coastal railway in Sri Lanka by a tsunami that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
Main Line (Sri Lanka) The Main Line is a major railway line in the rail network of Sri Lanka and considered by many to be one of the most scenic train journeys in all of Asia. [1] The line begins at Colombo Fort and winds through the Sri Lankan hill country to reach Badulla .
The Colombo – Katunayake Expressway E03 is Sri Lanka 's second E Class highway. [1] The 25.8-kilometre-long (16.0 mi) highway links the Sri Lankan capital Colombo with Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake [2] and Negombo. Construction on the highway began in October 2009, and it was opened on 27 October 2013, by former president ...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka on Sunday and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others, officials said.
The Kelani Valley line was originally built from Colombo to Yatiyanthota via Avissawella during 1900–1902. It was branched off at Avissawella and extended up to Opanayaka via Ratnapura (completed in 1912). Originally built as a 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm) narrow-gauge [1] line to serve the rubber plantations in the area, the railway line between ...
B. Badulla, Uva Province; Balapitiya, Southern Province; Babarenda, Southern Province; Bambalapitiya, Western Province; Bandarawela, Uva Province; Bangadeniya, North ...
The whole of the track on both routes was relaid with 43 kg (95 lb) rails between December 1905 and August 1907, with all joints being welded by thermite process. After a tram car strike in 1929, the Colombo Municipal Council took over operations of the electric tram system on 31 August 1944. The tram network were eventually scrapped in 1960.