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After spending a day traveling and a day looking around Semerang and seeing no trains at all we hired a car and driver to take us to Ambarawa museum. We were taken to the war museum where B2501, an 0-4-2RT, was plinthed with a coach, but nothing else relating to railways. We were told this was the only museum but we could go to the railway station to have a look. We drove down the hill, turned right, and there before us was a huge field full of steam locomotives, mostly in immaculate condition. In addition another B25 rack tank was in steam, maybe having just arrived with a 2-coach passenger train which was still in the station, and two more were inside the shed. We left when a huge thunderstorm struck. Two days later we took a train from Semerang to Jakarta. At Pekalongan we passed an 0-4-0 tender loco on a passenger train which I recorded in cine film as it departed. Several similar locos were seen in steam at Tegal from a distance as we passed. Several D52's, C28's and a C11 were seen at Cirebon and B5008 was in steam at Jatibarang. A few D52's were seen between there and Jakarta and a number of locomotives were stored at Karawang but it was getting too dark for photography.. Home Indonesian front page Yogyakarta Madiun and Surakarta Ambarawa and north coast Jakarta 1977 Cirebon 1977 West Sumatra 1985 South Sumatra 1985 Java 1985 Java 1987 If you find any broken links to pictures on this or any other page please e-mail me with details so that I can repair them. Thank you. |
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