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What time does a train actually cross Nine Arch this week - not a 2019 blog

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Ondrej Havel•229 rep•1

In Ella, walked to the bridge at 9 because Google said 9.30. Nothing. A guy selling king coconuts said maybe 11 something, maybe 4. I know the Kandy train is dead. I just want the two or three specials that still cross the bridge. This week's times if anyone is there.

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Treat the old six trains a day lists as dead. Since 20 June there is a daily special pattern on Nanu Oya-Badulla. The one that matters for the bridge: the morning train that leaves Nanu Oya about 9:00 and is due Ella about 11:25-11:30, so it is on the bridge a few minutes after that, toward Demodara. Afternoon: a Badulla-origin train due Ella about 15:50-16:00, so the bridge is a few minutes before Ella if it is coming from Demodara. There may be a second Nanu Oya departure mid-afternoon - ask Ella station that morning, not me, not a 2019 screenshot.

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Induwara Senarath•1340 rep•1

We got the about-11:30 crossing, train was 20 minutes late. Go at 11, sit on the side path, do not stand on the rails. The 4pm one was the busier photo crowd.

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Tamar Levi•318 rep•2

Times move. WhatsApp your guesthouse at 8am and they will have called the station. That is the current timetable.

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Fayaz Nizar•1020 rep•1

Going at 11 tomorrow, not 9. Thanks.

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