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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.
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).
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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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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]
Station Code Year opened Status Height (masl) Operational area/regional division Ancol: AC: Active +4 m: Daop I Jakarta Angke: AK: 1899 [1]: Active +3 m BNI City: BNC: 2017 [2]: Active
During the Indonesia-Japan Friendship Festival in November 2008, Japan showcased their Shinkansen technology to Indonesian audiences. [27] The idea of high-speed rail backed by funding through soft loans has been proposed by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for the Indonesian island of Java , linking up the densely populated ...