Pakubuwono X (also transliterated Pakubuwana X , sometimes abbreviated PB X ; Surakarta , 29 November 1866 – Surakarta, 22 February 1939) was, despite his regnal name, the ninth Susuhunan ( Monarch ) of Surakarta . He reigned from the 1893 to 1939, making him the longest reigning Sunan in the history of Surakarta.
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66-583: A length of 602 km (374 miles), while the second mainline, 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ), had a total length of 863 km (536 miles). The company received compensation for the Staatsspoorwegen (SS) rail transit between Batavia and Surabaya . The board of directors ( Raad van Beheer ) was based in Den Haag ( The Hague ), while the Committee van Bestuur (management committee) managed business in
88-568: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pakubuwono X He officially succeeded his father, the eighth Sunan , as monarch two weeks after his death on March 30, 1893. He was designated a National Hero of Indonesia for his role in the independence movement. His birth name ( Javanese : asma timur ) was Raden Mas Sayyidin Malikul Kusna, son of Pakubuwono IX and his wife Kanjeng Raden Ayu Kustiyah. His reign corresponded with
110-474: Is located at Kampung Spoorlan, Kemijen while the former building is buried as deep as 2 meters (6.6 ft) between densely populated houses. At the same time, they also built the head office in Samarang, now Lawang Sewu , which was completed in 1907. At the start of their operation, the company had no profitable business prospects, so they submitted proposals to the colonial government for additional funding for
132-595: Is said to still survive in the royal garage, though the condition remains to be a mystery. After PB X's death, his coffin was transported between Surakarta and Yogyakarta by a NIS train. The remaining journey between Yogyakarta and Imogiri was by royal carriage. His coffin's trip to Imogiri was one of the most photographed royal funeral processions of rulers of his era. Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij N.V. Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij ( lit. ' Dutch East Indies Railway Company plc ' ), abbreviated to NIS , NISM or N.V. NISM
154-554: The 166 km (103 miles) line to Yogyakarta (Lempuyangan) via Surakarta (Balapan) . Financial assistance and dividend guarantees were provided on condition that a 111 km (69 miles) booster line had to be built to Ambawara to provide a rail connection from Kedungjati to the strategic military stronghold named Fort Willem I. They named it Willem I station and afterawr Indonesian independence it changed its name to Ambarawa station. This station finally closed in 1977 and became Ambaa Railway Museum ). By 1870, 109 km (68 miles) of
176-462: The Royal Graveyard of Imogiri , where he is buried. The monarch loved motorcars. In 1894 His Majesty purchased a Benz Victoria Phaeton for a staggering 10,000 guilders, which for comparison purpose, the same amount of money was at the time, could only be obtained by a common manual labourer in three centuries time of labor. This, while proving himself as one of the richest monarch of the land at
198-414: The capital city of Batavia ( Batavia Noord or Batavia NIS ) for 25 km (16 miles) and had branches to Meester Cornelis (just south of Manggarai ) around 1 km (0.62 miles) and Kleine Boom (Pasar Ikan near Sunda Kelapa ) for around 2 km (1.2 miles). After a two-year construction period, the line opened on January 31, 1873, and quickly proved profitable. The short town line to Kleine Boom
220-593: The colony. At the end of 1937, there were 37 employees in the senior service, 274 employees in the middle service and 3,557 employees in the regular service. The first maintenance workshop was in Semarang and around 1915, it was moved to Yogyakarta (it is now Pengok Workshops or Balai Yasa Pengok ). There is also a small workshop in Cepu . During World War II , the Beijnes diesel-electric train car order had to be cancelled. Likewise,
242-452: The end of 1918, the NIS had 57 locomotives, 35 passenger cars, 136 baggage cars and 1,393 freight cars. There were almost 23,000 train movements, with a total distance of around 1.23 million km. In 1917, nearly 4 million passengers were carried, of whom 3.99 million passengers were in class 3. By 1928, the NIS had carried 13.8 million passengers. By 1936, the second-class network had been extended to
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#1732852436294264-529: The first railway line in Java . This company was established on August 27, 1863: the concession was granted to W. Poolman, Alex Frazer and E.H. Kol, the founders of the company, to build the line from Samarang to Yogyakarta . Construction started on Friday, June 17, 1864, from Kemidjen village, Samarang. They named the station Samarang or Samarang NIS as the starting point of the line to Tangoeng (Tanggung) via Allas-Toewa ( Alastua ) and Broemboeng (Brumbung) which
286-681: The high-performance steam locomotives ordered from Werkspoor could not be delivered after the German occupation in June 1940. For strategic reasons, the Solo-Gundih line was given a third rail to allow narrow gauge, 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ), locomotives to operate from Semarang to Solo via Gambringan. Many of the NIS Class 380 locomotives, later designated as the C52 series, were taken to other areas by
308-472: The line had been built, and by 1917, a total of 206 km (128 miles) km had been operated in 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge }. With a branch line, the total track length is 419 km (260 miles). The first narrow gauge , 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ), of NIS railway line stretched from the governor's office in Buitenzorg (now Bogor ) to
330-751: The network expanded to Bandung and Surabaya . It was absorbed into the present Kereta Api Indonesia after Indonesian independence in 1949. It was the main competitor to Staatsspoorwegen as state-owned railway company and established on April 6, 1875. The company's registered office is in The Hague (in the building now used by the South African embassy in the Netherlands), but it mainly operates from an administrative headquarters building in Semarang (now become Lawang Sewu in Javanese or The Thousand Doors) which
352-492: The political changes happening in the Dutch East Indies at the time, in particular the growth of local indigenous political organizations such as Budi Utomo and Sarekat Islam of which he and the royal family were patrons. Pakubuwono X was known to have many concubines, but his main consort was GKR Hemas, the daughter of Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII of Yogyakarta . He was also known major contributor to improvements at
374-515: The time, made him the first person to own a car within the territory of Dutch East Indies, preceding by two years from the first car ownership in the Netherlands. the first public sight of the car is said, due to the car's ability to move by itself without being drawn by horses, left the general mass in such state of fear and awe, that it was nicknamed Kereta Setan (literal translation demonic carriage) . The iconic benz still survives to this day, but
396-580: Was a private-owned railways company in charge of rail transport in Java , Dutch East Indies . The company's headquarters were in Semarang , Central Java . The company started its maiden route from Semarang (at Kemidjen village) to the Vorstenlanden ( Yogyakarta and Surakarta ) and in 1873 they also built their line to the Willem I Railway Station of Ambarawa – Kedungjati and Batavia– Buitenzorg lines. Later
418-539: Was abandoned in 1891, because it had no connection to the rest of the NIS rail network and the port activities had been transferred to Tanjung Priok , and the line itself was removed in 1897. On 1 November 1913, the Batavia NIS station was sold to Staatsspoorwegen (SS, "State Railways") along with the Buitenzorg–Batavia line and it was closed in 1929 after Batavia-Benedenstad ( Jakarta Kota ) had been built. By
440-415: Was also among the oldest stations on a distance of around 25 km (16 miles) and was opened on August 10, 1867, and inaugurated for public service in 1873. In 1914, Samarang station was closed due to the frequent tidal floods and land subsidence which disrupted train operations. Starting from June 1, 1914, they moved to Samarang Tawang as their main operational station. The former Samarang station now
462-520: Was designed by Cosman Citroen and was renovated in 2009. In 1842, after a railway system had been successfully implemented in the Netherlands in 1837, the Dutch States General repeatedly urged the Dutch government to build a railroad network in their colony of Dutch East Indies. It was not until in 1864 that the colonial government, under the command of L. A. J. W. Baron Sloet van de Beele , built
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#1732852436294484-566: Was taken out of the country for Amsterdam Motor Show in 1924, presumably after the monarch relinquished the ownership, where it remains in the country to this day as part of an exhibition in a Museum, This in effect made the monarch regarded as a pioneer of the automobile industry in Indonesia, all the while His Majesty continued to expand the growing collection of motorcars, often luxury limousines with big seating capacities to accommodate his big families and entourages while travelling, with some cars
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