The train tickets in Sri Lanka are absurdly cheap. Our seven-hour, 158 km trip from Kandy to Ella cost us just 210 Sri Lankan Rupees, which is around $3. Shutterstock ...

A train carrying thousands of gallons of fuel was left derailed after it hit a herd of wild elephants - killing two of the giants. The crash happened in northeast Sri Lanka, leaving two elephants ...

The first section of new rail built after Sri Lanka's independence was in 2013—after more than six decades of neglect. As I travel around the island I like to drop into railway stations.

A sign alerts train operators to the presence of wild elephants, near the site where a passenger train hit a herd and killed six elephants in Minneriya, Sri Lanka, Feb. 20, 2025.

Six elephants died after a train hit them on the tracks and then derailed at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka. Photo by AFP A Sri Lankan passenger train derailed Thursday after smashing into a family of ...

Police and railway personnel examine a derailed train at Habarana in eastern Sri Lanka on February 20, 2025, which killed six elephants. - -/AFP/AFP via Getty Images ...

Sri Lanka is coming down hard on selfies. The country's railway authorities have announced they will start arresting people taking selfies on the tracks, or in front of moving trains.

July 10, 2024 at 11:12am BST A railway union strike stopped most trains across Sri Lanka on Wednesday, leaving tens of thousands of passengers to brave the few dangerously overcrowded trains that ...

Sri Lanka's president Monday launched train services to the battle-scarred city of Jaffna nearly 25 years after a bloody ethnic conflict destroyed the region's entire railway network. President ...

Perennially green, the country has a mind boggling variety of tropical fruits. Sri Lanka grows 32 types of bananas as I was told, with one type having red skin.

Sri Lanka's Ocean Queen Express became a symbol of the biggest natural disaster to hit the South Asian nation in living memory, when the train was struck by the giant waves of December 26, 2004 ...

SRI LANKA — A train collided with a herd of elephants in Sri Lanka on Wednesday night, killing at least six of them, according to Sri Lanka police. No passengers were injured, but wildlife ...