Ambarawa Railway Museum
Semarang, Central Java
Ambarawa
Railway Museum is a railway station that now use into a museum in
Ambarawa, Central Java, which has rail equipment ever succeed in his time. One
of the steam railway locomotive number B 2502 and B 2503 made Maschinenfabriek Esslingen, and B made Hannoversche
Maschinenbau AG 5112 until now still able to carry out activities as a tourist
train. Jagged steam train is very unique and is one of three remaining in the
world. Two of them are in Switzerland and India. In addition to unique collections before, still can be seen a wide variety
of steam locomotives of series B, C, D to the greatest of CC (CC 5029,
Schweizerische Lokomotiv und Maschinenfabrik / Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works)
in the museum courtyard.
Since June
2013, the museum is closed for renovations total mass after car trips downtime
since mid-2012. No clear information from the PT KAI, when the museum reopened.
Museum Building
and Location
Ambarawa
was a military city during the Dutch Colonial Government. King Willem I ordered
the construction of a new railway station to enable the government to transport
its troops to Semarang.
On May 21, 1873 the Ambarawa railway station was built on a 127,500 m² land.
This was known back then as Willem I Station.
The
Willem I Railway Station was originally a transhipment point between the
4 ft 8 1⁄2 in
(1,435 mm) gauge branch from Kedungjati to the northeast and the 3 ft
6 in (1,067 mm) gauge line onward towards Yogyakarta via Magelang to
the south. It is still possible to see that the two sides of the station were
built to accommodate different size trains.
The
Ambarawa railway museum was established much later on October 6, 1976 in the
Ambarawa Station to preserve the steam
locomotives, which were then coming to the end of their useful lives
when the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge railways of the Indonesian
State Railway (the Perusahaan Negara Kereta Api, PNKA) was closed. These are
parked in the open air next to the original station.
Railway Line
The 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge line towards Yogyakarta (runs roughly
south-west from Ambarawa) was of particular interest because it contained
sections of rack railway between Jambu and Secang, the only such
operation in Java. This line beyond Bedono closed in the early 1970s after it
was damaged in an earthquake, but had already lost most of its passenger
traffic to buses on the parallel road. The line from Kedungjati (runs east
initially from Ambarawa) survived into the middle 1970s but saw very little traffic
near the end, not least because it was far quicker to travel more directly by
road to Semarang. The presence of
the rack line meant that there was probably never much through traffic from
Semarang to Yogyakarta.
The museum serves the tourist train Ambarawa-Bedono pp, pp
Tuntang Ambarawa-and lorry-Tuntang pp Ambarawa travel. Train travel-Bedono
Ambarawa pp or better known as Ambarawa Railway Mountain Tour operates from the
museum to the station Bedono a distance of 35 km and taken 1 hour to reach the
station. This train passes through the jagged rail only here and in Sawahlunto.
Panorama of natural beauty such as the green valley between Mount Unggaran and
Merbabu can be seen along the way.
The view can be enjoyed from a train and lorry-Tuntang
Ambarawa was not less good. The train departs from the station to the station
Tuntang located approximately 7 miles from the museum. Along the road can be
seen in the form of a charming landscape of rice fields and fields with a
backdrop of Mount Unggaran, Merbabu, and Swamp Dizziness in the distance. This
train has actually been there all the time, but closed in the 1980s due to
damaged infrastructure.
Collection
The museum collected 21 steam locomotives. Currently four locomotives are
operational. Other collections of the museum include old telephones, Morse
telegraph equipment, old bells and signals equipment, and some antique
furniture.
Some of the steam locomotives are the 2 B25 class 0-4-2RT B2502 and B2503
which is from the original fleet of 5 supplied to the line about 100 years ago
(a third locomotive, B 2501, is preserved in a park in the town nearby). The
E10 class 0-10-0RT E1060 which was originally delivered to West Sumatra in the 1960s for working the coal railway, but was brought to Java, later
returned again to Sawahlunto, and a conventional locomotive 2-6-0T C1218 which
was restored to working order in 2006, but transferred to Solo to working as
tourist train, named Sepur Kluthuk Jaladara. The museum also have a small
diesel shunter D300 class 0-8-0D D300 23, previously based at Cepu, an old
UH-295 crane from Semarang, and the newly restored B51 class 4-4-0 B5112
specially for Ambarawa-Tuntang line.
Contact Person :
Email : adi_saputro@hotmail.co.id
Skype : antonie.adam
YM : antonie_adam
Tlp : +6285743563167
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