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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 running or be stranded ...
2019 railway strike in Sri Lanka was an industrial dispute which happened for 12 consecutive days between the Sri Lanka Railways and the Government of Sri Lanka over the salary increments. It was considered to be one of the longest railway strikes in Sri Lanka since 2008. The strike began in mid September from midnight and ended up on 7 October ...
No Gatwick Express or Great Northern trains will run.
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
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12 March 1928 – A passenger train and a mixed train collided near Kalutara killing 28 people. 23 May 1958 – A night mail train derailed at Batticaloa, killing three and injuring several others. 18 March 1964 – Sixty people died in a derailment at Mirigama. [2] 19 January 1985 – Eleven passengers were killed by an LTTE bomb on a Yal Devi ...
Passengers were stuck on a Eurostar train in the Channel Tunnel for two-and-a-half hours after an apparent breakdown of the London to Paris service.. On one of the busiest travel days of the ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka: 3 February 2008 12 92 Fort railway station bombing - Suicide bombing of a commuter train while it was stopped at Colombo's main railway station. LTTE: Sri Lankan civil war: Colombo, Sri Lanka 26 May 2008 8 72 A packed commuter train carrying 200 passengers was blown up by a time bomb at Dehiwela railroad station. [32] LTTE