Bangil Station (BG) is a railway station located in Pogar, Bangil, Pasuruan Regency; entered within eastern border of Operational Area VII Surabaya of Kereta Api Indonesia (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 Pasuruan- Probolinggo and to

Malang Malang (; ) is a landlocked List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, city in the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of East Java. It has a history dating back to the age of Singhasari, Singhasari Kingdom. It is the second most popul ...

. To the west of this station, before entering Porong there is Gununggangsir which is deactivated due to low income. Bangil is the main railway station in the west of Pasuruan Regency, so this is one of the busiest station in East Java that most of the trains stop at here.

History

Bangil railway station was commissioned by Staatsspoorwegen as a state railway company in

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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. After Staatsspoorwegen 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) 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