Kroya railway station
railway station in Indonesia
Kroya Station (KYA) is a railway station located in Bajing, Kroya, Cilacap Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. The station has nine railway tracks. It is a major junction station where the line from Yogyakarta split, where one goes to Purwokerto and Cirebon, while other head to Bandung.
History
Kroya Station is estimated to have existed since the construction of the Cilacap-Kroya-Kutoarjo-Yogyakarta railway line on 20 July 1887. The development also included a branch line to Purworejo which opened on the same date.
On 1 July 1916, the Prupuk–Kroya railway was built to serve passengers from Cirebon.
Since the inauguration of the Eendaagsche Expres (one-day express) train by the Staatsspoorwegen (SS) on 1 November 1929, this station has been used as a place for the merger of the Eendaagsche Expres train which serves the Batavia–Soerabaja route with its feeder (KA feeder) coming from Bandung.
Initially this station consisted only of a main building and a platform that had a canopy that was almost similar to Manggarai Station (see picture). With the increase in the volume of passenger transportation at this station, the station building was later enlarged until it was finally replaced by overcapping in the 1990s. This old canopy, similar to Manggarai Station, appeared in the film Kereta Api Terakhir.
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