Colombo Terminus Station

Colombo Terminus Railway Station
Station statistics
Lines	Main Line
Other information
Opened	1865[1]
Closed	1908[1]
Owned by	Ceylon Government Railways, now Sri Lanka Railways
Services
All Main-line trains to Colombo (until 1908)

Colombo Terminus Station was the primary railway station in Colombo, Sri Lanka in the nineteenth century. It was retired from service at the beginning of the twentieth century and replaced by Maradana Station. The preserved building is now home to the National Railway Museum.^[1]

History

Colombo Terminus Station was opened in 1865 to serve all trains at Colombo.^[1]

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]

Today the station is the site of the National Railway Museum.^[1]

Features

Terminus Station was originally the end of the Main Line. The construction of the Coast Line turned the station into a quarter-mile-long siding, making operation inconvenient.^[2]

Instead of a clock, a sundial was originally used to tell the time. This would have avoided the cost of installing a mechanically-operated clock.^[2]

See also

• Railway stations in Sri Lanka‎
• Maradana Railway Station
• Colombo Fort Railway Station
• Rail transport in Sri Lanka

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Hyatt, D. An Overview of the Development of the Sri Lanka Railway 2009.
2. ^ ^{a b} Cave, Henry. "The Ceylon government railway: a descriptive and illustrated guide..." London: Cassell and Company, Limited. approx. 1910. http://books.google.com/books?id=GzwdAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=colombo+terminus+station&source=bl&ots=wcsJvT6NgG&sig=Mj4tRpSY5z7KC_-w7CZchxvBMe0&hl=en&ei=mUrHTsLpMsnf0QGs1rgs&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=colombo%20terminus%20station&f=false