#DemodaraLoop - Twitter Hashtag

14 days ago

🚂🌿 Demodara Railway Loop - A Wonder of Sri Lanka! 🇱🇰 . . . . 📍 Demodara, near Ella #DemodaraLoop #Demodara #EllaSriLanka #SriLanka #VisitSriLanka #ExploreSriLanka #SriLankaRailways #RailwayAdventure #DiscoverSriLanka #TravelSriLanka

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Jagath Gunasekara @JagathGuna

over 2 years ago

#DemodaraRailwaystation is most famous for its #spiralrail line at this #Srilanka, popularly known as the '#DemodaraLoop'. The rail line passes under itself, going around the loop and emerging from a tunnel, which runs directly beneath the Demodara railway station. The rail loop is approximately 900m long and the tunnel is 320m in length. It is considered the "only loop in the world with a railway station situated exactly over a tunnel at the spiral loop". During the construction of the rail extension to #Badulla, the engineers and surveyors found that the elevation between the hills at Demodara was too much for the track to negotiate. One of the famous civil engineer, #DJWimalasurendra, observed that a supervisor in a local tea estate undone his #talappawa (#Jatawa) and re-tie it around his head, and then the same concept was used to build this loop station. #DemodaraLoop', as one of the most fascinating colonial railway civil engineering marvels in Sri Lanka. Lots of people miss this as they have to go to Demodara to see the loop(10 min drive from #Ella). This video clip shows how the train enters and leaves from Demodara Railway Station.