Ambarawa Railway Museum

Ambarawa Railway Museum located in Semarang District. This museum is interesting considering there is only one in the world that exhibit combined with steam locomotives that can still climb the mountain road from the days of the Dutch East Indies Ambarawa a military area, so that King William I wanted to establish the Railway Station building in order to facilitate transporting the troops to go Semarang. So on May 21, 1873 Ambarawa Railway Station was built with a land area of 127.500 m2. Station heyday Ambarawa designation imposed by William I, as a discontinued operation with the major railway stations Ambarawa Kedungjati Semarang. And in 1976 to cross Ambarawa - Secang - Magelang also Ambarawa - Parakan - Temanggung. Closure of Railway Station of Ambarawa, on April 1976 the Governor of Central Java, along with Chief Rustam Supardjo PJKA exploited Soeharso decided to change the Ambarawa Station into Railway Museum by collecting 21 locomotives had his share of battles, particularly the Indonesian military transport.

 Ambarawa Railway Museum 

We went through the gate to get to the museum, the condition of the asphalt road to get to the parking location is damaged. Parks around the vehicle parking location less manicured and looks a lot of dead plants. For the audience of this train really apprehensive because this place is one of the assets in world history.

Ambarawa Railway Locomotive Museum Collection

Entering the station which is the main building Ambarawa Railway Museum, feels like going back into the past. In several rooms of the museum, there are several collections of ancient tools like the phone machines, typewriters, calculating machines, and other equipment. Antiquities are still well maintained and stored in the display window made of glass. Ambarawa Railway Museum is a museum of ancient technology that is used as a means of transport since before the independence of Indonesia until the year 1964. Inside the museum there are 21 steam locomotives that are in the north and west of the museum, five steam locomotives in the depot with the three of them are still able to operate properly. In addition there are several ancient instruments like a typewriter calculating machines, telephone wire planes, and so forth.

CC 5029 locomotive, made by Schweizerische Locomotiv und Mascinenfabrik, Switzerland in 1928

When you're walking around the museum, will definitely see a steam train, complete with two parents walked to the station wagon. Turns out there was a group of tourist who hired a steam train to experience the journey with a steam train.

Steam Train Carriage

Ambarawa stations have old locomotives that are still able to climb the jagged mountains by  train, serrated one train capable of traveling in Indonesia with a slope of 30 degrees/miles to the station, a distance of 9 km Bedono taken within an hour and a capacity of 80 persons. Tourists can enjoy the panoramic views along the way of Mount Ungaran and towering Mount Merbabu and Rawa Pening carpet at the bottom.