Holidays affect train services

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Train services on main lines were disrupted as a result of engineers, engine drivers and guards reporting late for work after the New Year holidays, the Railway Department said.

The train services along the coastal belt, the main line and the Puttalam line were affected.

Steps are being taken to bring back the service to normal.

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Discombobulations Monday, 15 April 2013 11:22 AM

What is a koachi? Makes me think of an itch on my back from a mosquito bite and I cannot reach it to scratchi!

malarvili Wednesday, 17 April 2013 07:32 AM

WHAT A EXCUSE HOLIDAY TO DISRUPTED TRAIN SERVICES, ITS ALWAYS AS NORMAL ITS DISRUPTED OK

limatc Monday, 15 April 2013 11:50 AM

sumith , rightly said , golden words

upul Tuesday, 16 April 2013 02:16 AM

People have to make sure their own vehicles as a back up.

ANTON Monday, 15 April 2013 12:20 PM

AIYO, MANIKE, KUMARI, DEVI WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU.

Matalan Tuesday, 16 April 2013 10:16 AM

Sounds like this is the first long week-end ever. What a joke! ...and NO it DOES NOT happen in other countries.

Sim Monday, 15 April 2013 01:48 PM

Sri Lankans work hard in other countries but they never work for 8 hours in Govt. Dept.

Labby Monday, 15 April 2013 10:34 AM

What a lame excuse. Didn't the railways department foresee this? Where was the backup ?

watchman Monday, 15 April 2013 10:34 AM

Typical mentality of our people.. If it is work you always come late.. if it is a party or a politician comes into to the work place then we come hours early.

watchman Monday, 15 April 2013 10:38 AM

Always Late Koachi !

sumith Monday, 15 April 2013 10:45 AM

What a waste..Sri Lanka has too many holidays..our buddhists are the laziest in the world

Discombobulations Monday, 15 April 2013 11:17 AM

Late? It is not a Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian or atheist issue. It is cultural, and this endemic lateness affects the entire society. I would agree, however, that the supervisors might anticipate the tardiness and TRY to avert it. But, you don't change 2,500 years of lassitude in a day.

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