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Meeyan Ella is a waterfall with a deep history yet unknown to many. The waterfall lies along the railway line to Kandy near Ihalakotte railway station.
The stream which creates the Meeyan Ella waterfall originates from a place called Helan-Madiththa on the Alagalla mountain. Originally the waterfall fell as a single stream over a rock and flowed over the villages of Walagoda and Thalagolla, joining Thalagolla Oya. Thalagolla Oya then gets connected to Ma Oya in Boella.
But today the waterfall drops as two steams with a gap of about 50 meters along two artificially cut grooves on the rock surface. How this once a mighty waterfall, became two small waterfalls is an interesting story.
After the last kingdom of Sri Lanka fell into the hands of Britain, they started building a railway line from Colombo to Kandy to bring the valuable goods produced in the hill country to Colombo for export. The section of the railway line between Polgahawela and Kandy was built during the mid-1800s and at Alagalla they faced the challenging task of building the railway across the large waterfall of Meeyan Ella.
To cross Meeyan Ella, the British had to build a tunnel across the Alagalla rock drilling over 1,000 foot through the rock. Realizing that this was a mammoth task, they looked for alternatives. The final decision of the British was to block the waterfall upstream and cut two deep grooves into the rock so that the water will fall as two smaller waterfalls.
With this task completed, the British created a 1400 foot long and 18 foot deep horizontal cut along the Alagalla rock to lay the railway line which was completed up to Kandy in 1867. But during the heavy rains, this groove was not enough to handle the massive flow of water on the stream and the railway was swept away several times.
By the beginning of the 20th century, it realized that this solution was a death trap during the rainy season and decided to build the tunnel as originally planned. The 1307 foot (400 meters) long tunnel across the Alagalla rock was built between 1905-1906. Since this tunnel lay between tunnels 5 and 6, it had been named Tunnel 5A. This is also the second longest railway tunnel in Sri Lanka, the longest being the Singimale Tunnel which is 1865 feet (558 meters) long. The Nakuttiya tunnel with a length of 2018 feet (615 meters) on the new Matara Beliatta will soon take this place
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8 дек 2023
