Scenic route
Ruhunu Kumari
Colombo → Matara · Sri Lanka
- Distance
- 158 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 41 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Sri Lanka Railways
- Train
- Class S12 DMU
- Countries
- Sri Lanka
- In service since
- 1955
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Sri Lanka’s first intercity express (1955), so close to the Indian Ocean between Colombo and Galle that spray from the breakers reaches the footboards.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 4140788 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Sri Lanka Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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