Cakung Station (CUK) is a class I

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in Pulogebang,

Cakung Cakung is a district (''kecamatan'') of East Jakarta, Indonesia. The district is roughly bounded by Bekasi Raya Road to the west, the Bekasi Raya Road - Petukangan canal to the north, a portion of Cakung river to the east, and the Jakarta-Bandung ...

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. The station, which is located at an altitude of +18 m, is included in the Jakarta Operational Area I and only serves the

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route. The station has a total of six railway tracks. The station straddles the border of

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and

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, even the south and east sides after being extended are administratively located in Bintara, West Bekasi, Bekasi, West Java. Despite this, the station's entrance still lies within the borders of Jakarta, and therefore is stated as part of Jakarta. Cakung is the easternmost station in Jakarta. This station is also a busy station with a very large number of passengers in the morning and evening during

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. To the east of this station, before Kranji Station, there is the former Rawabebek Station location which is no longer active due to minimal occupancy.

Building and layout

Initially, the station had four railway lines with lines 2 and 3 being straight tracks. After the Jatinegara–Cakung

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section was officially operated in 2019, the number of lines has increased to six with lines 5 and 6 being new straight tracks specifically for non-KRL trains. Lines 5 and 6 are equipped with a quadruple-track railway end switch on the east side of the station embankment. Then, after the Cakung–Bekasi quadruple-track railway section was officially operated on mid-December 2022, the

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was completely dismantled so that now the two lines are straight lines without being connected with railroad switch at all. Since 9 October 2018, this station has used a new building with a futuristic minimalist modern architecture which is located a little to the east of the old building. The relocation did not change the layout of the railway track at all. In 2021, an

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was built next to 6 railway tracks near Cakung Station to replace a

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which has been permanently closed. The currently closed level crossing was a connector between the I Gusti Ngurah Rai street at the south of the Cakung Station and the Pulo Gebang Raya street, that connects the station to Penggilingan which already exist since 1902.

Services

The following is a list of train services at the Cakung Station.

Passenger services

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** Cikarang Loop Line (Full Racket) *** to (direct service) *** to (looping through -- and vice versa) ** Cikarang Loop Line (Half Racket), to / (via and ) and

Supporting transportation

Gallery

File:Stasiun Cakung, 2019.jpg, The emplacement and new building of Cakung Station (2019) File:South Gate of Cakung Station.jpg, The south entrance of Cakung Station (2022)

References

External links

* East Jakarta Railway stations in Jakarta {{Indonesia-railstation-stub