Sri Lanka, March 7 -- Minister of Transport, Highways, Ports and Civil Aviation Bimal Rathnayake says that Sri Lanka's railway service will be made attractive to public and also efficient and timely within the next one or two years.

Addressing concerns related to the repeated delays in train services during today's (07) parliamentary session, the Minister stated that when foreigners think of Sri Lanka, one of the first images that comes to mind is its iconic train journeys.

"Sri Lanka's railway service has now become very sexy, everyone loves that. But I must say that even though it is sexy, it is not healthy. It always gets delayed. Now, the officials in Sri Lanka Railways have managed to bring down the frequency of train delays and ca...