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Despite Indonesia having a left-hand running for roads, most of the railway lines use right-hand running due to Dutch legacy. Indonesia's rail gauge is 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in), although 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), 750 mm (2 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in), and 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) lines previously existed.
Reference [3] [4]. In July 2010, the Ministry of Transportation issued Regulation No. KM45/2010, which among other things, renumbered the locomotive unit number. Under the new regulation, the unit number consisted of year of entered service and the unit number of that year (e.g. CC201 78 03 (former CC201 31) denotes that it is the third CC201 that entered service in 1978). [5]
In North America the term "railcar" has a much broader sense and can be used (as an abbreviated form of "railroad car") to refer to any item of hauled rolling-stock, whether passenger coaches or goods wagons (freight cars). [3] [4] [5] Self-powered railcars were once common in North America; see Doodlebug (rail car).
All steam locomotives in Indonesia were operated during the Dutch colonial era to the PJKA era, during the 1980s era. In Greater Jakarta, steam locomotives were operated between the 1930s and 1980-1990s (e.g.: steam trams were actually closed in the early 1980s electricity was actually closed at the end of the decade 1990s due to being displaced by electric rail train, diesel locomotive, city ...
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B25 02 at the Ambarawa Railway Museum. As befits a colonial enterprise, most railway lines in Indonesia had a dual purpose: economic and strategic. In fact, a condition for the financial assistance for the NIS was that the company build a railway line to Ambarawa, which connected to the one of an important military base named Fort Willem I for the Dutch king.
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Indonesia's main railways, operated by Kereta Api Indonesia and its subsidiaries, is used for both passenger and freight transport. The majority of railways is located on Java . There are four separate railway networks on Sumatra : one in Aceh , one in North Sumatra (Aceh connection proposed to be finished in 2020s), another in West Sumatra ...