Name: Train Halt 01
Address: Wadduwa, Sri Lanka, LK

Train Halt 01 is a train station, located at Wadduwa, Sri Lanka

Location :

Wadduwa

Added by Jopie, at 11 September 2016

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Christian Noll

25 February 2019

Named number 1 because it is right between two villages and they could not agree a name. Traditional colonial style railway station built by the British and well maintained.
Ramesh Chathuranga

13 February 2019

Very scenic
Suranga Wijeweera

18 January 2019

වස්කඩුව හා පොතුපිටිය කියන, කලුතර ආසන්නයෙ ඇති ගම් දෙකක් මැද හම්බවෙන මේ දුම්රිය ස්තානයට NO 01 Railway station කියල ගහල තිබුන. පස්සෙ මම විස්තර හොයල බැලුව ඇයි ඒකට නමක් නැත්තෙ කියල.
ලංකාවෙ තියන ගමක නමක් යොදාපු නැති එකම දුම්රියපොල මේක කියල තමයි දැනගන්න ලැබුනෙ. ඒකට හේතුව මේ දුම්රිය පොල පිහිටල තියෙන්නෙ පොතුපිටිය හා වස්කඩුව කියන ගම් දෙකට හරි මැදට වෙන්නලු. එක නිසා මේකට වස්කඩුව දුම්රිය පොල කියල නම දාන්න හැදුවොත් පොතුපිටියෙ අය විරුද්ද වේනවලු. පොතුපිටිය දුම්රිය පොල කියල නම තියන්න ගියොත් වස්කඩුවෙ මිනිස්සු විරුද්ද වෙනවලු. ඒක නිසා තිරනයක් ගන්න බැරිවෙල තියනව මොන ගමේ නමද දාන්නෙ කියල. ආන්න ඒක නිසා ගම් දෙකේම නම දාන්නෙ නැතුව NO 01 Railway station කියල දාල තියනව.
This railway station, located between Waskaduwa and Pothupitiya, located between two villages near Kalutara, had NO 01 Railway Station. Afterwards I looked up the details why they did not have a name.
It is learned that this is the only station that has not been named as a name in a Sri Lanka village. This is because the Railway Station is located in the middle of the villages called Pothupitiya and Waskaduwa. Therefore, if the Waskaduwa railway station is to be named as the polonium, this will be revoked. If you go to Pothupitiya Railway Station and get the name of the station the people will be Waskaduwa. Because of this, it was impossible to take a solution and it was in which village the name of the village was given. And, due to this, NO 01 Railway station has been named without the name of both villages.
P. R.

04 January 2019

Kolombo Galle line
Hasaru Hasantha

04 November 2018

One of num 1 station in sri lanka
Layan Moyura

29 March 2018

Nice surrounding areas.
Sriyantha Swarnamalitha Peramunagama

28 February 2018

A station start the name with number is very poor access to enter
Vidu Gayan

05 February 2018

Good service provided
Hashintha Samarasinghe

29 November 2017

Staff is helpful and provide a good service. Has a beautiful surrounding too.
Gayashan Vidusha

15 November 2017

Famous train halt in coastal line
Hasaranga Jayathilake

06 June 2017

Very popular sub railway station due to the name of the station.
Damitha Ranathunga

29 April 2017

Beutiful
Aui Kumara

19 March 2017

beautiful surrounding and fast service is here
Helmut T. Brehmer

21 February 2017

even a trainstop for potupitiya and wadiyamankade people
Navindu Saranga

16 December 2016

nice lovely place,first located at pothupitiya ,but near villagers want to change that name for their village name,finally station named as NO 1
Udeny Dayarathna

18 September 2016

This is a very small railway station. This rail way station is unique, because, it's the only railway station in Sri Lanka that has not named after a city, or place.

It is located almost on the boundary between the villages of "Pothupitiya" and "Waskaduwa" in the Kalutara district, thus, when the station was built many decades ago, the people from both villages wanted the station named after their village. The contest to have the station named after their own village escalated so much, that it lead to riots and open fighting between the peoples of the two villages. The conflict became so bad that there was a loss of lives too.

Due to this, the then Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (named Ceylon at that time) instructed the railways officials not to give any name to the railway station, and, to simply name it as "Railway Station No. 01". That is how it stands, to date !