Browsing The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017 by Subject "Colombo"

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A glance at roadscape of principal roads from Colombo to provincial towns in the mid nineteenth century Sri Lanka

Manatunga, A. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)

The present study is a cursory survey on the roadscape of principal roads which have linked Colombo with provincial towns in the mid nineteenth century. There were seven principal roads from Colombo, the Capital City of ...
Traversing through the 18th Century Colombo-Kandy Trail

Paranavitana, K.D. (The International Conference on Land Transportation, Locomotive Heritage and Road Culture - 2017, 2017)

Colombo was linked with Kandy by a land route in the 18th century as the Kandyan and the Dutch authorities needed each other for mutual existence. The entire Colombo-Kandy route can be divided into two main sectors, firstly ...

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