This is a famous railway station on the Main Line located between Ella railway station and Uduwara railway station in Badulla district in Uwa province. 277.71km away from Colombo Fort railway station with an elevation 912.50 M high above mean Sea level. Station Code is D D R. Station has only one platform with a crossing loop and all trains that Badulla inbound and outbound trains are serve the station.
Demodara Station opened to the public on 5 February 1923, when completing the final part of the construction, that Bandarawela to Badulla about 33 km of the main line.
Timetable at Demodara
To Badulla
| T- No | D- Time | Destination | Available | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1045 | 6:29 | Badulla | Daily | NMT |
| 1126 | 13:43 | Badulla | Daily | Local |
| 1005 | 15:29 | Badulla | Daily | XPT |
| 1015 | 17:42 | Badulla | Daily | XPT |
| 1007 | 18:38 | Badulla | Daily | XPT |
To Colombo Kandy
| T- No | D- Time | Destination | Available | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1016 | 06:24 | Colombo Fort | Daily | XPT |
| 1006 | 09:09 | Colombo Fort | Daily | XPT |
| 1008 | 10:41 | Colombo Fort | Daily | XPT |
| 1596 | 11:47 | Kandy | Daily | Local |
| 1046 | 18:37 | Colombo Fort | Daily | NMT |
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Demodara Railway station is a wonderful construction of the Sri Lanka railway network or worldwide railway networks. The Demodara Loop, which is the track passes under itself, going around the loop and emerges from no 41 tunnel. Loop is about 900 m long. The station situated exactly over the tunnel. Also that's center of the crossing point on the top of the loop. This type of loop is known as “spiral loop” or “circular loop”. In Sri Lanka, some time called as “Demodara looping the loop”There are many spiral loops in the worlds.
1. Septemvri–Dobrinishte – Bulgaria 2 tunnel
2. Tehachapi Loop - California1 tunnels
Demodara loop is the only loop in the world which is a railway station situated exactly over a tunnel at a spiral loop
Demodara 41 tunnel
Read more:- Sri Lanka railway engineering historical turning point
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