Tanah Abang railway station

|left The history of Tanah Abang station was date back from 1899 railway line, Jakarta–Anyer Kidul. The first segment, Jakarta–Tanah Abang–Rangkasbetung (currently Rangkasbitung) was opened on 1 October 1899 according to State Railway Company of the Dutch East Indies' 1921, 1925 and 1932 Annual Report. The original station building has been demolished and replaced with the present two-story building, which is equipped with a crossing bridge and escalators. This new building was inaugurated on 3 June 1997 by the then Minister of Transportation, Haryanto Dhanutirto. It was made to accommodate KRL Commuterline passengers, which at that time were already operating on the Tanah Abang–Serpong route. Until 2022, Tanah Abang Station had a locomotive depot located northeast of the emplacement, which was directly connected to line 1. It used to store two derelict locomotives of BB304 class and BB306 class each and two freight cars. In 2017, a new entrance and exit building located close to the Tanah Abang Locomotive Depot to the north was opened. The new entrance and exit building is also equipped with various new amenities, such as commercials. The north entrance have been integrated with the pedestrian bridge which faces Jalan Jatibaru Bengkel, as well as the skybridge that connects the station with Tanah Abang Market. In order to create a new public transportation intermodal integration, the north entrance area was overhauled between May and June 2020, by creating a new public plaza for supporting transportation intermodal shelters for Transjakarta buses, angkot and mikrolet, and online motorcycle taxis (ojek online). In late 2022, the Ministry of Transportation revealed the plan for Tanah Abang Station extension; it is planned that the new building will be built on a 4 hectares site located 500 m north from the existing building, namely the Tanah Abang Locomotive Depot. The extension plan was carried out due to Tanah Abang Station has become one of the busiest transit stations on the KRL Commuterline system (with 48,000 daily ridership and 150,000 transit passengers) and such expansion is very necessary. Indeed, it has been a long time since the Jakarta Provincial Government, the Ministry of Transportation, and PT KAI have planned to build a new Tanah Abang Station building, carrying the concept of transit-oriented development (TOD). and was later inaugurated by President Prabowo Subianto on 4 November. == Building and layout ==

Tanah Abang Station consist of two buildings, the existing south building and the new north building. The current two-storey south building since 1997, replacing the original one from 1899, has a mixed architecture between traditional and modernism, with the roof designed to resemble the Javanese traditional house, Joglo. The north building, opened in 2025, has a circluar-shaped front lobby area and adhere to contemporary eco-friendly architecture with wooden elements on the front facade. The station has six railway lines. Line 2 is a straight double track heading to Duri–Kampung Bandan, line 3 is a straight double track going to Sudirman–Manggarai, and line 5 is a single straight track going to Rangkasbitung–Merak. After the opening of the Tanah Abang–Serpong segment double-track on 4 July 2007, the layout was overhauled so that the number of lines increased from five to six, with line 5 being a double track straight from Rangkasbitung-Merak and line 6 being a straight line in the direction of Rangkasbitung–Merak. On 22 February 2025, the Cikarang Loop Line bound to Angke station began to serve the new platform 1 on the north building. The island platform for the Cikarang line cater trains bound to Bekasi through Manggarai while the tracks on the other side are removed. == Services ==

Passenger services • KAI Commuter • Cikarang Loop Line (Full Racket) • to (counter-clockwise via ) • to (clockwise via and ) • Cikarang Loop Line (Half Racket), to / (via ) and • Rangkasbitung Line, to , , , and Defunct services • Loop Line, to , , (Replaced by Cikarang Loop Line) • Kalimaya intercity (Merak-Tanah Abang) closed 1 April 2017 • Patas Merak intercity (Merak-Angke via Tanah Abang) closed 1 April 2017 • Rangkas Jaya intercity (Tanah Abang-Rangkasbitung) closed 1 April 2017 • Krakatau intercity (Merak-Kediri via Tanah Abang) closed 17 July 2017. The service now only serves Pasar Senen–Blitar route and renamed Singosari == Supporting transportation ==

feeder services at Tanah Abang Station. The north entrance of Tanah Abang station was overhauled between May and June 2020 to create a new transit plaza for supporting transportation modes such as Transjakarta, mikrolet, and auto rickshaws (bajaj). == Places of interest ==

• Textile Museum (Jakarta) • Tanah Abang Market == Incidents ==

• On 2 February 2007, there was a flood that inundated Tanah Abang Station. As a result, the KRL Commuterline's travel route was disrupted. • On 10 February 2007 at 08:47, economy-class train numbered 906 with the route Tanah Abang–Rangkasbitung was dropped when the train was about to depart from Tanah Abang Station. The incident happened because the train signaling system was not functioning properly due to the massive floods that hit Jakarta a few weeks earlier. • On 31 October 2008 at 09:55, 3 coal train cars with the number Gapeka 2012 derailed at Tanah Abang Station. This incident was most likely caused by the driver's negligence when braking the train on the switch. • On 17 January 2013, the Tanah Abang station was totally paralysed by a massive flood that hits Jakarta. As the result, KRL Commuterline services were disrupted. == Gallery ==

File:Kompleks Stasiun Tanah Abang.jpg|Bird-eye view of the Tanah Abang station complex, 2025 File:Tanah Abang railway station entrance.jpg|The Tanah Abang station south building entrance from the Tanah Abang skybridge, 2022 File:Tanah Abang railway station fare gates.jpg|Fare gates of the station, 2022 File:Pinru Keluar Srasiun Tanah Abang Baru.jpg|Exit gate to the lobby of the newly-built north building, 2025 File:Stasiun Tanahabang 2020.jpg|The emplacement of the south building, 2020 File:Passenger Information System Tanah Abang Station.jpg|Passenger Information System on the platform canopy, 2022 ==References==