Badulla Railway Station, the final stop on the Main Line, opened in 1924, featuring colonial-era British architecture.
Badulla Railway Station B adulla Railway Station is one of the railway stations in the Uva Province, Sri Lanka. It is the last station (78th) on the Main Line, and is 292.393 km away from Colombo. History The Sri Lankan railway system has a history running back to the 19th century. The British rulers commenced the railway service in the country for planters to facilitate the transportation of their harvest from inland to the seaport located in Colombo (Kesavan et al., 2015). In 1858, the then Ceylon Governor, Henry George Ward (1855-1860 A.D.) commenced the construction of the first railway line in the country to be run between Colombo and Ambepussa (Abeysinghe, 2016). The line then extended to Kandy (1867), Nawalapitiya (1874), Hatton (1884), Nanu Oya (1885), Haputale (1893), Bandarawela (1894), and after the First World War, to Ella (1918), Demodara (1921) and finally Badulla on 5 February 1924. The station was officially opened on 5 April 1924. Architecture The architecture of the station building showcases st…
