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ROZELLE RAILWAY STATION SRI LANKA

Amongst the railway stations on the Up Country Line of the Sri Lankan Government Railway are a number of little known Colonial-built and Colonial-style quaint railway stations.
The romantic sounding Rozelle is one of them.

Very little is known of how this station came to be, although one assumes it had to do with the tea plantations.
Even the English spelling of the name is not established as far as this station goes, and varies between Rozell e and Rozell a.
The latter reflects the present day pronunciation of the name.
Most English speakers would pronounce Rozelle as “Ro-zell” (two syllables) but the Sinhalese characters spell it out as “Ro-sall-a” (three syllables).

Rozelle is a Scottish name associated with Ayrshire. (There is also a Rozelle in New South Wales in Australia.)
In Sinhala, which is a phonetic language, the spelling and the pronunciation of “Ro sall er” are clear and consistent but one cannot help thinking that, over time, the original pronunciation (and therefore the Sinhala spelling) has been “Sinhalicised”.

Officially, the station sign and the railway tickets use the first spelling but the rather recent official SLGR website lists it as Rosella, further confusing the issue!

There is no town by that name in Sri Lanka and the name seems to come from the tea plantation which is, confusingly, named Rozella
The main access to Rozelle station is by train although the Station Road does connect with the main Colombo-Hatton road. Buses from nearby Hatton are infrequent.
There is no town or even a proper settlement apart from the tea plantations. Apart from a tea shack next to the Goods Shed, there are no other facilities for the infrequent visitor.

PATTIPOLA RAILWAY STATION

Pattipola railway station is the 66th station on the Main Line, and is 226.8 km (140.9 mi) away from Colombo.It is the highest railway station in Sri Lanka with an elevation of 1,897.5 m (6,225 ft) high above mean sea level.The station has one platform with a second track as a siding loop. All the trains that run on the Main Line, including the Podi Menike and Udarata Menike express trains stop at the station.

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