Monday, April 5, 2010

Stasiun Tugu

If you are traveling to the City of Gudeg by train, you can stop and get off at the Big Station Tugu Yogyakarta (commonly called Tugu Station). This station is the main door and out of the tourists who menghabisakan his time in the city of Yogyakarta. From here, thousands of passenger trains each day up and down for various purposes. From the simple business of his home town to visit family, study, business, until the tour.

When the first foot in the Tugu Station, your mind float as if brought back into the past, to the Dutch colonial era, because it is building this station is of Dutch heritage. Tugu Station became one of silent witness of Indonesian history and provide trail-building tracks through the details, exterior to the interior of the station that integrates with the flurry of passing trains.
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Tugu Railway Station is the result of the development of rail transport systems by the Dutch government for the benefit of the transportation of passengers and agricultural produce from the plantations in Java, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Kalimantan. On June 17, 1864, Mr. Governor Jendereal. L.A.J.W. Baron van Beele Sloet laid the first stone construction of the first railway line in Java. The railway was run by Spoorweg Nederlandsch-Indische Maatschappij (Netherlands East Indies Railway Company) and began operation August 10, 1867 with a relationship line and Responsibilities Semarang, Surakarta.
During its development, this new route passed along the 166 kilometers to the city of Yogyakarta and Yogyakarta Lempuyangan became the first station built and operated at the date of March 2, 1872 for Semarang-Yogyakarta route. Meanwhile, the Tugu Station began operation on May 2, 1887. Surakarta-Yogyakarta route was built in 1899 and the first passenger train running on the date of February 1, 1905.

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Tugu Railway Station is one of the big stations that still retain its function as a place to train maintenance, unlike the large stations generally are now only as a transit point. Therefore, you can travel to the corners of the station to witness the activities of the mechanic's aging trains and train stations to trace this. Some employees at this station enough to know the history of the station, so be invited to chat.
When heading to the west side of the station, you will see where the train locomotive repair. You must be amazed to be studied in detail each component in the locomotive. In fact, you can observe the machine from below because there is a ladder to the bottom of the locomotive is 'parked'. Not far from there, you can see the ancient statue of a black train is also interesting to enjoy.
Walk a little to the south, you can see where repairs railroad cars. Although not get in, you can peep from the iron fences surrounding blue-white color. Looked up, it would seem sebuat train parts are placed in the yellow tower. It is fitting parts crane train carriages that have been used since the Dutch era. If you walk north, then you will find the train janitors.
If you are coming or leaving during the evening, then sempatkanlah to stand between channels 4 and 6 and look to the west. Beautiful sunset scenery will be seen when the sky is clear, combined with rail-rail trains that the farther it will look like the lines that eventually merge into one point. The presence in the tower crane and train street children who brought the music scene will progressively add keeksotikan dusk.
Satisfied to enjoy the beauty of the station, you can start your tour in Yogyakarta. Various transportation means of transportation available at this station. You can ride pedicabs to the Sultan's Palace and sales in Pathuk bakpia. If you want to travel some distance, you can use the city bus or taxi, as if going direct shopping, you just walk up the Malioboro which is located right in the southern part.

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