Classic route
Yal Devi
Colombo → Jaffna · Sri Lanka
Yal Devi in pictures
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- Distance
- 397 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Sri Lanka Railways
- Train
- Class M10 diesel
- Countries
- Sri Lanka
- In service since
- 1956
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Sri Lanka’s Northern Line express: its tracks to Jaffna, torn up during 25 years of civil war, were relaid and reopened in 2015.
How this line was checked
- The 324 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11686253 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- 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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