Bangil Station (BG) is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

located in Pogar, Bangil,

Pasuruan Regency Pasuruan Regency ( id, Kabupaten Pasuruan) is a regency in East Java, province of Indonesia. The capital of this regency is Bangil. It had a population of 1,512,468 at the 2010 Census and 1,605,969 at the 2020 Census. This total excludes the pop ...

; entered within eastern border of Operational Area VII Surabaya of

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(KAI) at the height of ± 9 meters above sea level (railway line Surabaya-Bangil). To the east of this station, there are branches of the line to

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Probolinggo Probolinggo ( id, Kota Probolinggo, mad, Prabâlingghâ) is a city on the north coast of East Java province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 56.67 sq. km, and had a population of 217,062 at the 2010 census and 239,649 at the 2020 census ...

and to

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. To the west of this station, before entering

Porong Porong is a district in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java, Indonesia. It has a population of 68,243 (2018). Located about south of the regency seat, it bordered by Krembung in the west, Pasuruan Regency in the south, Tanggulangin in the north. Villages ...

there is Gununggangsir which is deactivated due to low income. Bangil is the main railway station in the west of

, so this is one of the busiest station in

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that most of the trains stop at here.

History

Bangil railway station was commissioned by

Staatsspoorwegen ''Staatsspoorwegen'' (Dutch for State Railways, full name: ''Dienst der Staatsspoor- en Tramwegen in Nederlandsch–Indië'' (State Railways and Tramways Service in the Netherlands Indies, ''SS en T''), commonly abbreviated as SS) was a railway co ...

as a state railway company in

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

on May, 16th 1878 at the same time as the commissioning of Surabaya―Bangil―Pasuruan railway line which was the first railway line construction. Bangil is classified as a huge station, it has a

locomotive depot The motive power depot (MPD) or locomotive depot, or traction maintenance depot (TMD), is the place where locomotives are usually housed, repaired and maintained when not being used. They were originally known as "running sheds", "engine shed ...

. After

commissioned Surabaya−Pasuruan line, the company continued to built a new line to

which was commissioned on July, 20th 1879. The main building of the station had been rebuilt, except for the platform canopy and the locomotive depot that is not used today. In some records, the original main building was bombed and destroyed during Dutch military aggression against the Republic of Indonesia, (see

Operation Product Operation Product was a Dutch military offensive against areas of Java and Sumatra controlled by the Republic of Indonesia during the Indonesian National Revolution.Vickers (2005), p. 99 It took place between 21 July and 4 August 1947. Referr ...

) in 1947. After the battle, the DKA-RI (the first railway company of Indonesian Republic) rebuilt the main building of the station at the following year.

Services

The following list of trains that are stopped at this station :

Passenger Train

Intercity

Commuter / Local

Freight Train

Pertamina Tanker, to

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and Malang Kotalama

Gallery

File:Platform of Bangil station.jpg, Island platform's view from third track of Bangil station. Also showed, a local train named Penataran from Blitar-Malang to Surabaya.

References

External links

* {{Train Stations in Indonesia, Pasuruan Railway stations in East Java Railway stations opened in 1878