COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka Railways says that train operations will be back to normal on Thursday (7).

However, the Railways Control Room says that for now 5 train operations have been canceled.

Also, several train journeys were canceled on Wednesday (6) due to many train controllers NOT reporting to work.

However, after the discussion with the officials of the Ministry of Transport, Sri Lanka Railways said that the train controllers started reporting to the services as usual with the promise of preparing a speedy system to provide fuel to the railway employees.

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