Ambarawa Railway Museum description and photos - Indonesia: Java Island (Topic)

Ambarawa Railway Museum description and photos - Indonesia: Java Island. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Ambarawa Railway Museum.

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The Railway Museum is located in the city of Ambarawa, Central Java province. Ambarawa is a small trading town between Salatiga and another port city, Semarang. Salatiga is located at the foot of the extinct volcano Merbabu, and Semarang is considered the fifth largest city in Indonesia.

At one time Ambarawa, where the Railway Museum is located, was an important railway junction - a cogwheel railway ran through the city, along which a funicular drove and connected the cities of Central Java province - Semarang, Ambarawa and Magelang. The Ambarawa railway was built during the Dutch colonization to transport troops to Semarang. The official opening date of the road is 1873. The station was small, on its territory there were only 2 buildings: in one there was a waiting room, in another building there was a station master.

The railway station was a connecting point for trains that ran from Kedungjati towards the northeast on a track width of 1435 mm, and trains that ran in side of Yogyakarta through Magelang on a 1067 mm track. Even today, you can see that on both sides of the railway station the tracks are of different width.

This railway line existed until 1977. After that, the Railway Museum was founded on this territory, in which the railway cogwheel road was exhibited, which at that time connected the villages of Ambarawa and Bedono on the main railway section Ambarawa-Magelang. In addition, you can see steam locomotives in the museum, which traveled on a 1067 mm rail track, there were 21 of these locomotives. Currently, four locomotives are operating. It will be interesting for museum guests to look at the old telephones that were used for railway communication, as well as the Morse telegraph, old bells and signal instruments.

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