Do not Turn Solo KA-rail line Wonogiri!

Railway. Jess ... jess ... tuuuut .... tuuut ... This secuplik scenes of our childhood when you see a train passing on the tracks. At first glance it does not look special, just a passing train them on the rails. In fact, sometimes we are often treated to views of the slums with scattered clothing and bedding in the sun on the edge of the tracks.However, the image is once again disappears when you try to take the train from station to station Solo Purwosari Winton. This train passes every day in the city of Solo, which is on the edge of Jalan Jalan Slamet Riyadi and Maj. Sunaryo Solokota to get into the station.Walking hand in hand with vehicle-four and two-wheel vehicles, these trains run at speeds of about 30 kilometers per hour. If you are lucky, you can feel mighty locomotive BB30003 light blue with a picture of four adjacency Javanese wayang figures, Petruk, Gareng, Semar and Bagong, known as Punakawan.Locomotive is that five years ago used to draw a series of KA-type Winton Solo Central Java Governor Mardiyanto inaugurated. KA inaugural trip was a guided tour three cars late Sinuhun Pakubowono XII.Currently, BB30003 locomotive is already not attractive tourist train Punakawan. Krupp locomotives, Germany has been aged approximately 40 years. Although she was quite frail with a maximum road speed of 50 kilometers per hour, these locomotives hauling passenger trains faithful Bengawan economy departing from Jakarta.Every day from 8:00 to 9:00, BB30003 locomotive with a wagon in tow waiting for passengers awaiting the arrival of the railway Bengawan Solo and citizens who will go to Winton. Exit the station Purwosari, slogan 35, locomotive horn will sound by road users Hasanudin and Slamet Riyadi.Imagine, traveling by train that cut through the center of a city. Where else you can find and experience a unique view of this kind in Indonesia if not in Solo?The existence of a rail line on the edge of the road Slamet Riyadi a railway network in Indonesia that is still in active use from before until now. Another great feature that you can be when traveling by train Solo-Wonogiri not just enjoy the scenery Jalan Slamet Riyadi. There are other peculiarities which emitted a train set, a spirit of togetherness and sincerity of the people around rail crossings through which this train.Just look at when you will enter Solokota station, a middle-aged man would stop a vehicle that would pass the rail crossing was barred door. Simply with a wave and a friendly smile from the driver and assistant driver to the middle-aged man, the train speeds away quietly. Without spending a dime, trains can swing freely. A social portrait of the rarely found in a number of intersections in the metropolis are loaded with police cepe'annya.Not just in the area Solokota station, all the way to Winton, more than a dozen crossings not barred door through this train. And still, the bond of togetherness and solidarity was never broken. Starting from plumbers tires, youth villages, helping farmers to secure the train Solo-Winton.The existence of a rail line Solo-Winton is quite unique and meaningful. According to the assistant train drivers-Wonogiri Rochmad Solo, who was serving time, the demarcation line was once the territory of the two kingdoms based in Surakarta Kraton and Kraton Surakarta Mangkunegaran.The uniqueness of the city with a touch of community togetherness Solo can not be forgotten. Moreover, the experience of crossing pass on the Bengawan Solo river is also a wonderful travel experience. Conditions iron bridge with a well-preserved tracks, not to cause anxiety to the passengers of this train every day. Unfortunately, after the rail network to the train station Sukoharjo Wonogiri, poor condition. Most of the iron is embedded pads are closed flat premises grass and wild plants, and even reply (pebbles) between the pads were not visible.The route along the 39 kilometers is still using R33 rail types that are no longer suitable to the conditions of the development of the rail network in Indonesia today. Currently, the main rail network across the island of Java has been used rail R54 type. Rail with type R54 allows passenger train diesel locomotive-drawn sort CC201, CC203 and CC204 can run smoothly with a maximum weight of 17.5 billion tons per year. While the rail network Solo-Winton only able to pass a series of trains with a maximum weight of about four billion tonnes per year. Not surprisingly, when the rail network was just passable similar locomotives BB300 and D301."The line is actually more social than profitable. Look up passengers per day on average only half filled carriages, often only a quarter be destroy cars only. Well, better rail lines remained impassable KA than left abandoned, might be nati squatter settlements, "said Djoko Moeljo BB30003 machinist.
The specificity of this route is that you can see the station after station Pasarnguter Winton, on the left rail, precisely in the area Tekaran, you can see the train stop. Wooden buildings was formerly often used the people around to wait for a passing train to Winton to Baturetno.Along the 39 kilometer rail network is not only beneficial to the citizens of Witney and surrounding areas. Solo KA-rail network has deservedly become an asset Winton PT. KA should be preserved and maintained, linked to social values ​​and history bears.

Once again, do not turn off the Solo KA-rail line Wonogiri!