ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s railway system was badly damaged by Cyclone Ditwah leaving only two lines operating, General Manager of Railways, Ravindra Padmapriya said, after landslides and torrential rains washed away chunks of tracks and damaged bridges. “After this natural disaster we only had the Coastal line and Kelani Valley line left,” Padmapriya told a forum at Sri Lanka’s Government Information Department. The worst damage was to the Kandy, Badulla and Matale tracks in the hill country. In at least 15 places with the ground blasted from under the track by Cyclone Ditwah. “The earth had been undermined under the…
Sri Lanka railway tracks ‘left hanging’ by Cyclone Ditwah : GM
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