Original upload date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 01:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 04 Dec 2021 23:29:34 GMT
The town of Madiun is one of a very few last places in Indonesia where you can see street running railway line. The line branched off from the mainline just to the west of Madiun railway station. It w
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as built originally to serve Rejoagung sugar mill, and a petrol depot. But the service to the sugar mill suspended sometime in early 1980s.
Upon branching, it then crosses protected level crossing. One unique thing is that despite the fact the branchline itself is not protected by level crossing gate, the gate would be lowered whenever a train passes through it.
Here we see one petrol train from Surabaya being pushed into the street running line, and later the locomotive running light engine back into the station.
