Derailment causes delays on coastline

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All trains scheduled on the coastal line had been announced delayed, causing difficulties to the commuters following a derailment of a train at the Fort Railway Station early today, Railway Control Room said.

This was the second incident today. The first one a train derailed from tracks in Maradana this morning.

Railway stations, including Colombo Fort and Kollupitiya were seen crowded with the office hour commuters in the evening. (Piyumi Fonseka)

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Amila Wednesday, 26 August 2015 06:41 PM

UNP and SLFP derailment delays the swearing of cabinet too.

Bippity Boppity Boo Thursday, 27 August 2015 12:59 AM

Millions of US Dollars was spent for the Sri Lanka Railway network. They was no improvement at all. The frequency of trains are still the less that what was there in the 60s. Some of the rolling stock imported from India recently is almost at the end of its life. What a waste of public funds. It was all %%%% in the pretext of development.

de silva Thursday, 27 August 2015 09:49 AM

Derailments are routine these days.It shows how efficient the Railway is.Can you tell what the Railway management is doing.The only answer will be we are investigating the incident.Thats all.

warra Thursday, 27 August 2015 01:30 PM

Time to modernise the train system in SL.

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