How the railways came to Batticaloa A page from Batticaloa’s History

by Shirley. W. Somanader


Travel before the trains


A measure of the efficiency of communication between a place and the outside world is the ease of accessibility to the Capital city. In terms of this measure, the isolation of the Batticaloa district, as late as the first quarter of the Twentieth century is expressed, by a person who had lived through the better part of those times thus: