Cirebon Prujakan railway station

Cirebon Prujakan Station is a railway station in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia.

Cirebon Prujakan Station

Stasiun Cirebon Prujakan
Main entrance of Cirebon Prujakan Station
Other namesPrujakan Station
LocationJl. Nyimas Gandasari, Pekalangan, Pekalipan, Cirebon
West Java
Indonesia
Coordinates6°43′10″S 108°33′31″E
Elevation+4 m (13 ft)
Owned byKereta Api Indonesia
Operated byKereta Api Indonesia
Line(s) Cirebon–Prupuk–Tegal
Platforms1 side platform
4 island platforms
Tracks9
Construction
Structure typeGround
ParkingAvailable
Disabled accessAvailable
Other information
Station codeCNP
History
Opened1 May 1897 (1897-05-01)
Previous namesCheribon Station (SCS)
Tjirebon Proedjakan Station
Original companySemarang–Cheribon Stoomtram Maatschappij
Location
Cirebon Prujakan Station
Location in Java

The station is located at a height of 4 metres above sea level is located at Nyimas Gandasari Street, Pekalangan, Pekalipan, Cirebon. Cirebon Prujakan Station is the largest station on DAOP 3 Cirebon after Cirebon Station and Jatibarang Station.[1]

Cirebon Prujakan Station is a train station stops for economy class train. While the executive and business class train does not stop at this station but stops at Cirebon Station, although sometimes there is also a stop on Cirebon Prujakan to cross, because the line was still using a single track to track eastward. This station is the only railway station in DAOP 3 Cirebon that have drive thru ticketing system since 2011.[2][3]

In 2011, Cirebon Prujakan Station and Cirebon station was renovated by elevating platform, and added lines.[4]

History

The station was built almost simultaneously with Cirebon Station, which is about on 1911 the initiative of the private railway company, Semarang-Cheribonsche-Stoomtram-Maatschappij (SCS).[5] As a container station and freight trains, station construction is intended to facilitate and accelerate the flow of agricultural commodities and imported goods mobility. The flow of goods from this station next empties in Cirebon port, because the station is the formerly station branching line to the port of. Since July 2011, the station Cirebon Prujakan transformed into a big station intended as the economy class train stops in the city of Cirebon on the north and south line. So the station is a station branching for the Northern line and south line that were previously located in Cirebon station.

Services

The following is a list of train services at the Cirebon Prujakan Station

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gollark: I mean, it probably won't cost you much, so I guess try it if you want to, but don't expect it to do anything.
gollark: You're not going to overturn extremely well-established scientific laws with some weird apparatus and some water.
gollark: It would only go to a certain height or something, you can't make it loop forever without inputting energy.
gollark: (unless this is satire, I'm terrible at detecting satire)

References
  1. (in Indonesian) Situs resmi PT. Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) "kereta-api.co.id". Retrieved 12 December 2011.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 7 May 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. (in Indonesian) PT. KAI Daop 3 Cirebon, Luncurkan Drive Thru dan Mobile Ticketing Online "www.kereta-api.co.id". Retrieved 12 December 2009.
  4. (in Indonesian) Dua stasiun utama Cirebon dimodifikasi, "Kompas". Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  5. http://www.cirebonkota.go.id/

Media related to Cirebon Prujakan Station at Wikimedia Commons

Preceding station   Kereta Api Indonesia   Following station
Cirebon
Terminus		   Cirebon–Prupuk–Tegal
CN–TG		   Waruduwur
towards Tegal
  Cirebon–Prupuk–Tegal
CN–PPK		   Luwung
towards Prupuk
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