Ambarawa Railway Museum
The Ambarawa Railway Museum (Indonesian: Kereta Api Ambarawa Museum ) is located in Ambarawa , Indonesia .
The museum is operated by Indonesia's largest public railway company, the state-owned PT Kereta Api Indonesia . It houses a collection of 22 historic locomotives. The former train station is the starting point of a line to Bedono that was initially closed in the early 1970s but reactivated from 1976 , about half of which is designed as a cog railway due to its steepness .
During the Dutch colonial era , Ambarawa was an important military base. For this reason, the Dutch state wanted to build a train station during the reign of King Willem I so that troops could be transferred to Semarang . In 1873, Ambarawa Station was built on an area of 127,500 m² of land.
The heyday of Ambarawa Station, also known as "Willem I Station", ended with the closure of the Ambarawa - Kedungjati - Semarang railway . In 1976 the Ambarawa - Secang - Magelang railway was also closed.
With the closure of the Ambarawa station, the governor of Central Java and the head of the Central Java Railway decided to build a railway museum on the station premises.
Exhibits
- Tourist rack railway (out of service)
- Old telephones
- Old Morse Code
- Old furniture
- Old signals
- 22 locomotives, two of which are operational (C1218 and E1060).
Web links
- Detailed information about the Railway Museum
- Information on museum and cog railway track (English)
- Three-part photo report: 1 2 3
Coordinates: 7 ° 15 ′ 55.5 ″ S , 110 ° 24 ′ 4.9 ″ E