Hey what's up guys, i hope that you guys well and blessed by Almighty God above, and today i want to share my latest railway photo hunting, a weeks ago, and taking place in Operational Area 2 of Indonesian Railways. more precisely in West Bandung regency. But first of all, in common people thought, if they hear someone goes to West Java area, they maybe think its about the culinary, city such as Bandung, Garut etc, the girls and the culture, but i'm on the deviant side, so i'm not following the common thought, i'm looking for a beautiful railways scenery that has been famous since the Dutch colonial era, but believe me, when everyone ride the train from Jakarta to Bandung or Banjar, if the train pass this scenery everyone pulled out their gadget's to take a pictures of the scenery.
So without taking long, lets get started...
Cirangrang Bridge
The first bridge that i try to cross, its in Padalarang-Cilame-Sasaksaat line, and its next to Cipularang highway road and the longest railway bridge in Indonesia that i'll explain after this. It takes nearly half an hour by Minibus from Padalarang district and cost Rp 5000 per ride each person. Curious about the scenery? Here we are...
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Premium Class Facultative Argo Parahyangan Train with CC206 13 60 BD locomotive from Jakarta Gambir station. |
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Argo Parahyangan number 22 with CC206 13 38 SDT locomotive from Jakarta Gambir station. |
Like i say before, this bridge is next of the longest railway bridge in Indonesia, the Cikubang Railways Bridge.
It also one of the highest of any active railway bridge here in West Java, why i can say this? because its crossing a deep chasm below, and without any talk, here's the photo...
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CC206 13 20 BD Locomotive featuring Argo Parahyangan train number 23 from Bandung. |
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Serayu economy class train with CC203 95 09 PWT locomotive for Purwokerto destination. |
And its time to left this two beautiful bridge, we're heading for Sasaksaat Station, 1 kilometers away from Cikubang. And while we're on the way, we crossing the S curve railroad, so without any further, we take our spot, and wait for the train to pass this s curve.
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CC206 13 55 BD with Argo Parahyangan number 24 from Jakarta Gambir station |
And we are arrived at Sasaksaat station, and just wait for 30 minutes there's Cibatu Local Train for Purwakarta destination entering the Sasaksaat station.
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With CC201 92 04 BD Locomotive, it entering the beautiful Sasaksaat station |
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And leaving |
Its a long day, we have to wait for another train to pass, and while we have a lunch, view train pass by and i only can capture the previous Premium Argo Parahyangan train go back to Jakarta.
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Passing Sasaksaat with CC206 13 60 BD locomotive |
Ah...and we're split, i'm heading for infamous sasaksaat tunnel, the longest in Indonesian active railway line, while other's back to Cirangrang bridge ones more.
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Argo Parahyangan train number 25 heading for Bandung with two face CC206 13 82 BD Locomotive, and its using Turangga train coaches |
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Argo Parahyangan train number 34 heading for Jakarta Gambir station. |
In the nutshell , there's Cibatu local train for Cibatu destination entering Sasaksaat that we ride on.
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Sunset in Sasaksaat, with the trains entering Sasaksaat |
And we back to Bandung, to our boarding house
With that bombshell its time to end this article, Thanks for reading, and Have a nice day.