Double track railway opens in West Java<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Minister of Transportation Haryanto Dhanutirto
\nyesterday opened a 32.4 kilometer double-track railway connecting
\nKadokan Gabus and Haurgeulis in West Java.<\/p>\n
The railway is part of a planned 105.74 kilometer double-track
\nrailway which, when completed in 1998, will connect Cikampek and
\nCirebon in West Java.<\/p>\n
Haryanto said each kilometer of the railway cost about Rp 1
\nbillion (US$434,782), meaning it would cost Rp 105 billion to
\nbuild the whole railway.<\/p>\n
Soemino Eko Saputro, the president of state-owned railway
\ncompany Perum Kereta Api (Perumka), said that trains serving the
\nnorth Java line were often delayed at the Kadokan Gabus-
\nHaurgeulis section, which had been connected by a single-track
\nrailway.<\/p>\n
The section, he said, had caused a bottleneck because trains
\nfrom Jakarta and Cikampek in the West, from Semarang and Cirebon
\nin the East and from Purwokerto in the South would often arrive
\nthere at the same time.<\/p>\n
He said the double-track railway would increase the capacity
\nof trains traveling along the line by 200 percent, up from 84
\ntrips a day to 166 trips a day.<\/p>\n
The new railway would let trains run faster, up from 85
\nkilometers an hour to 120 km an hour, he said.<\/p>\n
Soemino announced yesterday that Perumka was planning to
\nlaunch the second generation of the Argo Bromo express train on
\nNational Transportation Day on Sep. 17.<\/p>\n
\"The second generation will be faster than the first, which
\nnow serves the Jakarta-Surabaya route in eight hours. It will
\nalso have better facilities and greater comfort,\" he was quoted
\nby Antara as saying.<\/p>\n
He said the new Argo Bromo train would use bolster-less
\ncoaches from France. Perumka had already ordered 30 executive
\ncoaches and 10 backups.<\/p>\n
The opening was marked by the handing over of the railway's
\nmanagement from Santo Budiono, the Ministry of Transportation's
\ndirector general of land transportation, to Perumka's president
\nSoemino. (pwn)<\/p>",
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