Stasiun Solo Balapan

Solo Balapan Station is a base station in the city of Surakarta, which connects the city of Bandung, Jakarta, Surabaya and Semarang. The station was founded by the railway network in the NIS-colonial 19th century (actually 1873) and is one of the oldest stations in Indonesia (after Semarang Tawang Station). Construction is done in the reign of Mangkunagara IV, and a station for the Praja Mangkunagaran Duchy. Large station in Solo for Solo Station area is Jebres Kasunanan. Its construction was designed by Herman Thomas Karsten, a famous architect Indisch homage.

The station has two emplacement Solo Balapan, North and South. South emplacement has 5 railroad (tracks), while the North has a 7-gauge emplacement. South emplacement is generally used for Passenger train service, while the more northern emplacement KA goods destined for the ministry. To the east, there are two majors, the rail-way north to to Semarang, rail east to Surabaya. On the east side of the station there Turners Triangle (Wye) which allows a series of railways entirely reversed by using the principle yard. Inverting the sides of the triangle also allows the trains from the east (from station Solo Jebres) to go directly to the north / to Semarang Solo Balapan without passing station and vice versa. Near Triangle Turners have Pertamina fuel depot, a rail entry is also from one side of this Inverting the Triangle.

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