location of certain stops in distance or zone-based fare collection systems. Sunday stops are close to a church and used only on Sundays. History The first ever recorded bus stop was in Bishops Stortford and was believed to be constructed in 1890, linking Bishops Stortford to the town of Colchester.[citation needed] Design Bus stop sign in Hamburg with line numbers and major stops Bus stop infrastructure ranges from a simple pole and sign, to a rudimentary shelter, to sophisticated structures. The usual minimum is a pole mounted flag with suitable name/symbol. Bus stop shelters may have a full or partial roof, supported by a two, three or four sided construction. Modern stops are mere steel and glass/perspex constructions, although in other places, such as rural Britain, stops may be wooden brick or concrete built. The construction may include small inbuilt seats. The construction may feature advertising, from simple posters, to complex illuminated, changeable or animated displays. Some installations have also included interactive advertising. Design and construction may be uniform to reflect a large corporate or local authority provider, or installations may be more personal or distinctive where a small local authority such as a parish council is responsible for the stop. The stop may include separate street furniture such as a bench, lighting and a trash receptacle. Individual bus stops may simply be placed on the sidewalk next to the roadway, although they can also be placed to facilitate use of a busway. More complex installations can include construction of a bus turnout or a bus bulb, for traffic management reasons, although use of a bus lane can make these unnecessary. Several bus stops may be grouped together to facilitate easy transfer between routes. These may be arranged in a simple row along the street, or in parallel or diagonal rows of multiple stops. Groups of bus stops may be integral to transportation hubs. With extra facilities such as a waiting room or ticket office, outside groupings of bus stops can be classed as a rudimentary bus station. Convention is usually for the bus to draw level with the 'flag', although in areas of mixed front and rear entrance buses, such as London, a head stop, and more rarely a tail stop, indicates to the driver whether they should stop the bus with either the rear platform or the drivers cab level with the flag. In certain areas, the area of road next the bus stop may be specially marked, and protected in law. Often, car drivers can be unaware of the legal implications of stopping or parking in a bus-stop.[4] In bus rapid transit systems, bus stops may be more elaborate than street bus stops, and can be termed 'stations' to reflect this difference. These may have enclosed areas to allow off-bus fare collection for rapid boarding, and be spaced further apart like tram stops. Bus stops on a bus rapid transit line may also have a more complex construction allowing level boarding platforms, and doors separating the enclosure from the bus until ready to board.

This railway station locates very important place. World Trade Senter, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, General Secretaiat, Lake house printers, Head Quaterses of state Banks and private companies and other important state corporations locate around the station. As well as this station is very closed to Colombo main Railway Station, and this is very busy station befoe and after the office hours. However, sorry to say that this station has many defects. Communication issue is very critical one. Though there is a speaker it never say train times or messages. The other one is there's only one ticket counter for both up and down sides. When you come to this station to go Colombo, Maradana or other station locates in up side, you have to take a ticket and exit from station premises to the main road and cross the railway line through bride and re enter to the station from the other side.

SECRETARIAT RAILWAY STATION | මහලේකම් කාර්යාලය දුම්රිය ස්ථානය. මහලේකම් කාර්යාලය දුම්රිය ස්ථානය යනු වෙරළබඩ දුම්රිය මාර්ගයේ ඔබට සොයා ගත හැකි පළමු දුම්රිය නැවතුම වන අතර එය කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදිය දුම්රිය ස්ථානය සහ කොළඹ කොටුව දුම්රිය ස්ථානය අතර පිහිටා ඇත. මෙය උප දුම්රිය ස්ථානයක් ද නොවන අතර දුම්රිය නැවතුමක් පමණක් වේ. මෙය මුහුදුබඩ දුම්රිය මාර්ගයේ ඔබට හමුවන එකම දුම්රිය "නැවතුම" ද වේ. මෙහි සෑම මන්දගාමී දුම්රියක්ම ද නතර නොකෙරේ. උදෑසන සහ හවස් යාමයේ කාර්යාල වේලාවන් වලට පමණක් මෙහි මන්දාගාමී සහ අර්ධ සීඝ්‍රගාමී දුම්රිය කිහිපයක් නවත්වනවා ඇත.

Small station prior to the Fort station from Southern line. Since its close to the Presidential Secretariat this station named as Secretariat Halt. This station close to the main business hub like Central Bank, World Trade Twin Tower, Hilton Hotel, Galadari Hotel etc. If you can get off this station the Galle face can be reached by walking.

A good number of office workers use the Secretariat Halt during weekdays to get their work. A popular alternative to the ever crowded Fort Railway station which is situated to the north a few hundred meters away. Not sure if one could purchase rail tickets from here. Often the season ticket holders travel using the Sectariat halt

Secretariat Halt -මහලේකම් කාර්‍යාලීය දුම්රිය නැවතුම් පල - කාර්‍යාලීය වැඩ කරන දිනවල ඉතා කාර්ය බහුල දුම්රිය නැවතුම් ස්ථානයකි.කොටුව දුම්රිය ස්ථානයට ආසන්නතම දුම්රිය නැවතුම් ස්ථානයක් වන අතර අවට රාජ්‍ය හා රාජ්‍ය නොවන ආයතනය වල සේවය කරන මහත්ම මහත්මීන් බොහොමයක් අයගෙන් මෙම දුම්රිය නැවතුම්පොළ විශේෂයෙන් උදය හා සවස කාලයේ පිරී පවතී.

Railway Halt for easy access to the colombo fort area. Vastly used by the office staffs in the adjacent government and private offices. Not all the trains stops here.

Train station is located next to Hilton hotel swimming pool and president's secretariat office. Morning and evening, the station is crowded.

This railway stop is very busy in morning and evening hours as most of public staff use this stop for their transport service

Minimum facilities are available Halt for easy access to the colombo fort area. . Not all the trains stops here.

It's open only during office hours, not all the trains coastal stops here, hardly you can hear an announcement

මහලේකම් කාර්යාල දුම්රිය ස්ථානය. අවම පහසුකම් සහිත දුම්රිය ස්ථානයක් වේ.

The railway station in between Colmbo Fort and Komopanna Vidiya

Most of the trains stop here in the morning and in the evening

Small station in southern line.. very busy in office hours.

Good place to take the train without going to fort sttion.

It is very useful for people who work near by WTC area.

One of the beautiful railway station in Sri Lankan.

A crowded station at office departure time.

Wash room is locked for passengers …