Kurunegala - Habarana railway line launch in 2007

COLOMBO: The Kurunegala and Habarana New Railway line would be 80 kilometres long and the cost of construction and successful implementation are around 800 million rupees, a senior official of the Railway line development sector told Lankapuvath.

The project will be completed under two phases in which phase one is to construct 56 kilometres of the line from Kurunegala to Dambulla, Ibbagamuwa, Gokerella, Melsiripura, Dembawa, Galewela and Thalkiriyagama.

The second phase of the project will construct 24 kilometres from Dambulla to Habarana via Pelweherea, Kandalama, Kimbissa, Sigiriya and Moragaswewa. The work on this massive Railway line project will commence early 2007.

Lankapuvath