Ambarawa Railway Museum. Standing Strong Across Ages.

Ambarawa Railway Museum is a railway station which is now converted into a museum in Ambarawa, Central Java, which has the completeness of the train that had triumphed in it day. One of the steam railway locomotive number B 2502 and B 2503 Esslingen Maschinenfabriek made until now still can run the activity as a tourist railway. Serrated steam train is unique and is one of three remaining in the world. Two of them exist in Switzerland and India. Apart from this unique collection, it still can be witnessed various types of steam locomotives of the series B, C, D up to the largest type of CC (CC 5029, Schweizerische Lokomotiv und Maschinenfabrik) in the museum yard.


Ambarawa originally a military town during the Dutch colonial administration. King William I ordered to build a new railway station that allows the government to transport troops to Semarang. On May 21, 1873, the railway station was built on land Ambarawa 127 500 m². The station was originally known as William I.

Willem I Railway Station was originally the point of transportation between the 4ft 8 ½ in (1435 mm) rail branch from Kedungjati in the northeast and the 3ft 6in (1067 mm) rail line further towards Yogyakarta via Magelang from the south. This still can be seen that the two sides built railway station to accommodate different sizes.

Ambarawa railway museum and then established on October 6, 1976 at Station Ambarawa to preserve steam locomotives which later came to the end of the recovery when the 3ft 6in (1067 mm) railway line from the State Railways closed. This is an open museum located next to the original station.

The museum collected 21 steam locomotives. Currently four locomotives are operational. Other collections of the museum include old telephones, telegraph morse Equipments, Equipments old bells and signals, and Some antique furnitures. B2502 Steam locomotive, one of the four locomotives that are still active and is one of three left in the world.

Some of the steam locomotive is a two-B25-B2502 0-4 2T / 3, which from the original fleet of five supplied to the line of about 100 years ago (the third locomotive (B2501) are stored in a park in a nearby town) that E1060 E10 00-10 - 0T which was originally delivered to West Sumatra in 1960 to work in the coal train, but then was brought to Java, and a conventional locomotive-0T 2-6 C1218 returned to be used again in the year 2006.

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