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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 train. October 1985 – A freight train from Trincomalee to Colombo was bombed by LTTE.
Injured. 100+. 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.
The 2011 Alawwa rail accident, occurred on the evening of Saturday 17 September 2011, when a passenger train, Sri Lanka Railways S11, drove into an observation car at the back of a stationary Intercity Express train near the Alawwa railway station, approximately 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Colombo. [ 1] The accident resulted in the death of five ...
The Sri Lanka Railway Department (more commonly known as Sri Lanka Railways (SLR)) (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා දුම්රිය සේවය Śrī Laṃkā Dumriya Sēvaya; Tamil: இலங்கை புகையிரத சேவை Ilankai Pugaiyiradha Sēvai) is Sri Lanka 's railway owner and primary operator. As part of ...
T. Train collisions in Sri Lanka (1 P) Categories: Railway accidents and incidents by country. Rail transport in Sri Lanka. Transport disasters in Sri Lanka. Railway accidents and incidents in Asia by country.
Polgahawela level crossing accident. Coordinates: 07°19′05″N. The Polgahawela level crossing accident was a collision between a bus travelling from Galkiriyagama to Colombo and a train at a level crossing in Yangalmodara, near Polgahawela in Kurunegala district on 27 April 2005 at 8:30 local time, which resulted in the death of 41 people. [1]
The Yattalgoda train crash was an accident on a Sri Lankan rail line near the town of Kurunegala on 19 August 2001. The Udarata Menike express passenger service from Badulla to Colombo Fort in Sri Lanka was a regular train route which ran on to Colombo. On the day of the accident, the train was grossly overcrowded, with hundreds of people ...
Category: Train collisions in Sri Lanka. 1 language. ... 2011 Alawwa rail accident This page was last edited on 15 August 2020, at 23:35 (UTC). ...