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  2. History of Sri Lanka Transport Board - Wikipedia

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    The history of Sri Lanka Transport Board, the state-run, primary bus operator in Sri Lanka, goes back to 1 January 1958. The state-owned enterprise was at the time known as the Ceylon Transport Board. At its peak, it was the largest omnibus company in the world - with about 7,000 buses and over 50,000 employees. With privatization in 1979, it ...

  3. Sri Lanka Transport Board - Wikipedia

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    The history of Sri Lanka Transport Board goes back to 1 January 1958; at the time known as the Ceylon Transport Board (CTB). The inaugural trip of the CTB took the Prime Minister and the Transport and Works Minister Maithripala Senanayake on a maroon luxury Mercedes-Benz bus imported from Germany .

  4. Transport in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    Sri Lanka Transport Board bus Privately operated luxury bus Privately operated normal bus. Buses are the principal mode of public transport. Service is provided by the state-run Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) and privately owned buses. The SLTB has urban and rural routes; in many rural areas, it provides service which would be unprofitable ...

  5. Category:History of transport in Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    History of Sri Lanka Transport Board This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 06:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  6. Timeline of Sri Lankan history - Wikipedia

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    1971 JVP insurrection: Marxist insurrection conducted by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna against the government of Sri Lanka. 1972: Sri Lanka becomes a republic, and country's name Ceylon was changes to Sri Lanka: 1983 24–30 July Black July by the government and Sinhalese mobs; Beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War: 1987 29 July Signing of the ...

  7. Category:Bus companies of Sri Lanka - Wikipedia

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    History of Sri Lanka Transport Board This page was last edited on 25 October 2018, at 16:30 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. Trams in Colombo - Wikipedia

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    1914 map of the tram network and mosques in Colombo. The tram network consisted of a single 12 km (7 mi) line which utilised a 42 in (107 cm) rail gauge. [8] A total of 52 cars were in service, shuttling thousands of passengers between ten stops on the route from Maradana Station to Borella. [9]

  9. S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike - Wikipedia

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    Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike [alt 1] (8 January 1899 – 26 September 1959), also known as "The Silver Bell of Asia" (ආසියාවේ රිදී සීනුව), was a Ceylonese statesman who served as the fourth Prime Minister of the Dominion of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), serving from 1956 until his assassination.