Bobongan plantation light railway

Bobongan Plantation
Bobongan coconut plantation
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )

Bobongan coconut plantation near Perbaoengan

Coconut transport on the Bobongan Plantation light railroad

The field railway of the Bobongan plantation was a narrow-gauge railway on a coconut plantation near Perbaoengan in the Nahe area of Rantauparapat in the Labuhan Batu Regency ^(en) on the Indonesian island of Sumatra .

Route

The light railway led from the coconut plantation to the Perbaoengan station on the Deli Spoorweg Maatschappij to the south . Around 1893 a portable track also ran across the S. Parbaoengan River to the east.

Web links

• Kaart van de ondernemingen Bobongan en Batang Trap, Ref N ° 13201, schaal 1: 10,000 1923.
• Klappers – Bobongan (Serdang).
• List of steam locomotives of Deli Spoorweg Maatschappij with 600 mm gauge.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ United States. Hydrographic Office: Gazetteer. Issues 6-10. Hydrographic Office, United States Navy Department, 1944. p. 36.
2. ↑ station Perbaoengan op Sumatra.
3. ↑ Former locomotive shed of the field railway.
4. ^ Deli Spoorweg Map, 1893.

Coordinates: 3 ° 35 '  N , 98 ° 57'  E