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14 November 1910 • Pannipitiya , British Ceylon
Died:20 June 1994
Known for:The first Ceylonese Chief Mechanical Engineer and General Manager of Sri Lanka Railways
Locomotives
Position:Mechanical engineer • Engineer • General manager
In 1956, the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in London recognised Rampala as the finest diesel engineer in Asia at the time....
He created the Yal Devi train to connect Colombo, the capital, and Jaffna, in the now war-torn north.