Bedono Old Train: Train With a Steam Fuel Teak
Who has never train? It’s every person ever train. But, who already had rail fuel vapor with teak wood? If you have never felt the train with a steam fuel teak, came to Ambarawa. There, the train still using the ancient principles of boiler findings James Watt still operate.
Train With a Steam Fuel Teak
Ambarawa city in Central Java, is the oldest city in the Dutch colonial era is a military area. Towards the end of the 19th century when the King of the Netherlands, Willem I, want to build railway station in the city in order to facilitate the transport pasukannya Semarang.
So, on, 21 May 1873 dibangunlah Ambarawa the Railway Station on the land area of 127,500 square meters. The station was then known as Willem I Station.
There are 21 ancient locomotive which uses wood fuel that is used in combat, especially the trains in India carry on the war of the Netherlands, left in there.
Fuel
Jagged steam locomotive that takes 2.5 hours to heat 2000 cubic meters of water in the boiler. Timber into the fuel must be a type of hard wood, such as teak. After the train was running hot with the maximum speed of 45 kilometers per hour. To operate the old train engineer who was diperlukankan understand the process of burning energy ancient train.
In traveling from the Ambarawa Bedono train will stop again to fill the water to heat boiler. Water taken from the trench with a small pump. When the train stopped filling the air passengers can use the opportunity to take pictures.
“Ya know, the ancient name only train and race cadangnya just is not there. Until now the only way it can prosper,” said one passenger.
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