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Maradana railway station - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 6°55′45″N 79°51′56″E / 6.92917°N 79.86556°E

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Maradana Railway Station මරදාන දුම්රිය ස්ථානය மருதானை ரயில் நிலையம்
Maradana railway station with clock tower
General information
Location	Maradana, Colombo Sri Lanka
Coordinates	6°55′45″N 79°51′56″E / 6.92917°N 79.86556°E / 6.92917; 79.86556
Owned by	Sri Lanka Railways
Line(s)	Main Line Coastal Line Kelani Valley Line
History
Opened	1908^[1]
Electrified	no^[2]

Maradana Railway Station (Sinhala: මරදාන දුම්රිය ස්ථානය, Tamil: மருதானை ரயில் நிலையம்) is a major rail hub in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, with many inter-city and commuter trains entering each day. It is the terminus of several intercity trains.^[3]

Maradana is home to the suburban-Colombo network's centralised traffic control centre.

History

When the railways first opened in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1864, trains terminated at Colombo Terminus Station, a now-retired station near Maradana. In 1906, a project was launched to reorganise the railway within the Colombo area. Colombo Terminus Station was closed and replaced by the new Maradana Station.^[1]

Fort Railway Station was opened in 1917, as a new central station for Colombo.^[1] Today, Maradana and Fort are the primary rail gateways to Colombo.

Location

Maradana Station is in Maradana, located next to the Elphinstone Theatre and near the Maradana Railway Yards. Colombo Fort Station is a couple kilometres away from Maradana Station.

Features

Maradana Station features a two-storey building housing the ticket office, waiting room, and Sri Lanka Railways offices. A footbridge leads to the platforms.^[4] The main building is an example of British colonial architecture.

The railways operates its centralised traffic control (CTC) for the Colombo area through a facility at Maradana.^[5] The CTC handles about 290 trains per day.^[6]

Services

The station is served from the north-east by the Main line, which leads to several other major routes in Sri Lanka's railway network. To the south-east of the station, the Kelani Valley Line connects Maradana with many other area of Colombo. The station is served to the west by the Coastal line, leading to Galle and Matara. Most of these Coastal-line trains terminate at Maradana Station.

Maradana station is also a hub for commuter rail within the Colombo metropolis.

Inter-city trains

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2012)

Service	Route	Frequency
4001 & 4002 Yal Devi	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Vavuniya – (Jaffna) – (Kankesanturai)	Daily
4451, 4468 & 4470	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Ragama - Polgahawela – Kurunegala - Maho	Daily
8085, 8086, 4085, & 4086 Rajarata Rajina	Anuradhapura – Maho – Kurunegala – Polgahawela – Maho – Ragama – Colombo Maradana – Colombo Fort – Panadura - Galle – Matara	Daily
6011 & 6012 Udaya Devi	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Batticaloa	Daily
1015 & 1016 Udarata Menike	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Ragama - Polgahawela – Peradeniya - Nawalapitiya - Hatton - Nanu Oya - Pattipola - Ella - Badulla	Daily
1005 & 1006 Podi Menike	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Ragama - Polgahawela – Peradeniya - Nawalapitiya - Hatton - Nanu Oya - Pattipola - Ella - Badulla	Daily
Tikiri Menike	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Ragama - Polgahawela – Peradeniya - Nawalapitiya - Hatton - Nanu Oya - Pattipola - Ella - Badulla	Daily
Senkadagala Menike	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Ragama - Polgahawela – Peradeniya - Kandy	Daily
8058 & 8059 Ruhunu Kumari	Colombo Maradana – Colombo Fort – Panadura - Galle – Matara	Daily
8760 & 8327 Samudra Devi	Colombo Maradana – Colombo Fort – Panadura - Galle – Matara	Daily
8056 & 8057 Galu Kumari	Colombo Maradana – Colombo Fort – Panadura - Galle – Matara	Daily
8096 & 8097 Sagarika	Colombo Maradana – Colombo Fort – Panadura - Galle-Matara-Beliatta	Daily
3427 & 3803 Muthu Kumari	Colombo Fort – Colombo Maradana – Ragama - Negombo – Chilaw - Bangadeniya - Puttalam	Daily

Commuter and local trains

Route	Frequency
Towards Panadura	-
Towards Veyangoda	-
Towards Ja Ela	-
Kelani Valley Line	-

Continuity

Preceding station		Following station
Terminus	Ruhunu Kumari	Colombo Fort
	Samudra Devi	Colombo Fort
	Galu Kumari	Colombo Fort
	Sagarika	Colombo Fort
Ragama	Muthu Kumari	Colombo Fort
Ragama	Rajarata Rajina	Colombo Fort
Ragama	Udarata Menike	Colombo Fort
	Podi Menike	Colombo Fort
	Tikiri Menike	Colombo Fort
	Senkadagala Menike	Colombo Fort
Baseline Road	Kelani Valley Line	Terminus
Dematagoda	Commuter Rail	Colombo Fort

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Hyatt, D. An Overview of the Development of the Sri Lanka Railway 2009" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-14. Retrieved 2011-10-26.
^ "Daily News". IESL proposes railway electrification project. 2010-12-25. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08.
^ "Sri Lanka Railways Timetable" Archived 2012-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ Cave, Henry William (1910). The Ceylon Government Railway: A Descriptive and Illustrated Guide, Mainly Extracted from the Author's Larger Work "The Book of Ceylon,". Cassell, limited.
^ "The Island". Rampala regime in the local Railway History. 2010-07-19.
^ "Railway Centralised Traffic Control (CTC) Center". Sri Lanka Railways. Retrieved 6 February 2012.

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