Cepu forest railway

Cepu forest railway
Du Croo & Brauns locomotive of the Cepu Forest Railway
Route length:	Previously 300 km, today 30 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )

The Cepu Forest Railway or English Cepu Forest Railway is mainly steam-powered narrow-gauge railway with a track width of 1067 mm (3  feet 6  inches ) by the teak - plantations northwest of the city Cepu on the border between the provinces of Central and East Java on the island of Java in Indonesia .

The railway line was built in the Perhutani Forest in 1915 and was in full operation until the late 1990s. Since 1998, long stretches of the now up to 300 km long track network have been dismantled, but until 2002 there were occasional timber transports. The remaining 30 km route leads to an arboretum with teak trees and cultural events. Since 2002, chartered timber transport and tourist trains have been operating as a museum railroad , which is organized and marketed by PT Palawai in Jakarta. These are particularly popular with tourists from Europe , the USA and Japan .

In 2006 the bridge at Cepu was badly damaged in a flood, but was repaired again in 2007. In 2010, the commercial timber transport with the steam train was resumed in the otherwise inaccessible forests in order to remove trees that had fallen due to storm damage.

Together with the railways of the Olean Sugar Mill in Situbondo (a World Heritage candidate in Central Java), the Tasik Madu Sugar Mill and the rack railway from Ambarawa (both in Central Java), the Cepu Forest Railway is one of the tourist highlights for steam train fans. With four functional locomotives, it offers the highest concentration of steam locomotives in Indonesia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dickinson, Rob and Yuehong: Olean Sugar Mill - a candidate for a World Heritage Site? . In: The International Steam Pages . Retrieved December 18, 2008.

Coordinates: 7 ° 9 ′ 16.4 ″  S , 111 ° 35 ′ 26.8 ″  E