Railways
Double Take
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
The train collision early this month in Cirebon underlines the urgency of twin tracks on Java's busy railway line. More than 40 people were killed in the accident.
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LIKE an owl yearning for the moon. That's what the Indonesian railway has been looking to for years: the realization of a twin-track railway project that has been largely on hold courtesy of the ongoing economic crisis. The collision two weeks ago between a Jakarta passenger train bound for Yogyakarta and a stationary locomotive at the Cirebon, West Java, railway station, brought home the urgency of a double track that could have prevented such a ...
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