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On 30 April 1867, the first train, a goods service, completed the journey from Colombo to Kandy, with the first passenger service commencing on 1 August 1867. [3] [4] [5] Initially, there were two train passenger/mail services, leaving at the respective ends of the service at 7:00am, with the overall journey taking 4.5 hours. [3] [5] The ...
railway station Code District Elevation m Distance between Colombo Fort Km; Peradeniya Junction: PDA Kandy: 473.47 115.34 Sarasavi Uyana: SUA Kandy: 479.26 117 Rajawatte
Toggle the table of contents. ... List of railway stations in Sri Lanka, ... Kandy, Central Province; Kankesanthurai, Northern Province ...
Railway track near Haputale Older railway infrastructure on the Main line, including a gantry of semaphore signals at Kandy Station. The Main Line has a gauge of 5 ft 6 in (1,676 mm) broad gauge. [3] The Main Line is not electrified. Regular services run on diesel power. However, there are plans to electrify the commuter rail network, within ...
Sri Lanka Railways S14 is a class of diesel-electric multiple unit (DEMU) train sets, built for Sri Lanka Railways by CRRC Qingdao Sifang, China and financed by a Chinese sovereign loan. [1] Nine of these train sets were imported to Sri Lanka from 2019 to 2020. They possess air-conditioned first class along with second class and third class ...
[1] [2] It is the 65th railway station on the line from Colombo Fort railway station and is located in the Matale District in the Central Province. It is 148.6 kilometres (92.3 mi) from the Colombo Fort Railway Station and 27.64 kilometres (17.17 mi) from the Kandy Railway Station. The station was opened on 14 October 1880 following the ...
Kandy railway station; P. Peradeniya Junction railway station This page was last edited on 20 July 2023, at 19:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
17 September 2011 - An S11 passenger train struck the stopped Colombo-Kandy Udarata Manike at the Alawwa railway station. Five people were killed and over 30 were injured. [65] 17 May 2012 - After a train struck a stopped train, two trains collided between the Wandurawa and Keenawala stations in Veyangoda. [66]