Old Ceylon Railway Pictures

Old Ceylon

This site contains pictures of old Ceylon, including pictures of the Ceylon Government Railway (CGR) during the early days.

There are several pictures of the Kadugannawa Incline during construction and also a picture of a narrow gauge Beyer Garratt locomotive from the Udu Pussellawa Railway (UPR).

Worth a visit.  
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St Clair: Lost in the Wilderness

St Clair

Lost in the Wilderness

by

Gyan C A Fernando

In the very first issue of LRD (Lanka Railway Digest) we ran an article entitled:  “Glenanore: A well preserved plantationrailway siding in Sri Lanka”

 The article opened with the statement “Plantation railway sidings or estate platforms on the Sri Lankan Railway are little used nowadays, some have become stations and some have completely disappeared.”     More......