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The mail train crash at Mirigama
The mail train crash at Mirigama, photograph taken by Royal Ceylon Air Force Reconnaissance aircraft.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The torn-off wheel of the train - Aluthgama
The diesel rail car which crashed with a stationary train at Aluthgama. The torn-off wheel of the train.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Three persons were killed and 43 others injured when this 600-passenger express train, bound from Tokyo to Aomori in northern Japan, jumped the track and overturned. The accident was attributed to bent tracks, believed to have been caused when a t...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Talaimannar mail train derailment in 17.10.64 near Mirigama.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Under the suspicion that the dead bodies of the victims of the Mirigama train accident would be submerged in the nearby swamp and stuck under the train wreckage, a group of people are digging into the swamp again to reinvestigate.
The Times of Ceylon Press
