Tambun railway station

Tambun Station (TB) is a class III railway station located in Mekarsari, part of South Tambun District of Bekasi Regency, on Java, Indonesia. The station, which is located at an altitude of +19 meters, is included in the Operation Area I Jakarta. This station has four railway tracks with track 2 and 3 as straight lines.

C23 Tambun Station Stasiun Tambun
Tambun Station is under construction, photo was taken on 31 July 2019.
General information
Location	Jl. Mekarsari, Mekarsari, South Tambun, Bekasi Regency West Java Indonesia
Coordinates	6.25861°S 107.056°E / -6.25861; 107.056
Elevation	+19 m (62 ft)
Owned by	Kereta Api Indonesia
Operated by	KAI Commuter
Line(s)	Rajawali–Cikampek railway Cikarang Loop Line
Platforms	1 side platform 3 island platforms
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Ground
Parking	Available
Accessible	Available
Other information
Station code	TB
Classification	Class III[1]
History
Opened	1898 (1898)[2]
Rebuilt	2018[3]
Electrified	28 July 2017 (2017-07-28)[4]
Original company	Bataviasche Oosterspoorweg Maatschappij [id][2]
Services
Preceding station Following station Bekasi Timur towards Jatinegara loop Cikarang Loop Line Full Racket Cibitung towards Cikarang Bekasi Timur towards Angke Cikarang Loop Line Half Racket (Angke) Bekasi Timur towards Kampung Bandan Cikarang Loop Line Half Racket (Kampung Bandan)
Location Tambun Station Location in Java

Nearby the station is historic Gedung Juang Tambun building, a former landlord house during colonial era that currently houses Museum Bekasi.

Building and layout

The old station building with cultural heritage status is closely related to the Gedung Juang Tambun building, which has the same status. During the war for independence, the Gedung Juang Tambun was used as a place for negotiations on the exchange of prisoners of war. When the captured Indonesian freedom fighters were returned to Indonesian territory via Bekasi, the Dutch soldiers who were caught were returned to the Netherlands by the Indonesian freedom fighters to Batavia by train through the old station building where the tracks were right behind the building.^[5] The station is on the south side adjacent to the building.

This station has now been replaced by a new building with a minimalist modern architecture which is also applied to stations on the planned Manggarai–Cikarang quadruple-track railway (doubled‐double track (DDT)). When it was built, the old station building had already been torn down, so that train passengers had complained about being too hot or caught in the rain while waiting for the train to arrive. At that time, the KRL Commuterline trips had been extended to Cikarang Station. Currently, some of the new station platforms can be used even though the new main building is still under construction.^[6][7]

G	Main building
P Platform floor	Line 1	← (Cibitung)	Cikarang Loop Line to Cikarang and from and towards Kampung Bandan/Angke	(Bekasi Timur) →
	Island platform, the doors are opened on the left side of the train arrival on line 1, or on the right side of the train arrival on line 2
	Line 2		Direct tracks to CIkampek
	Line X		Inactive
	Island platform
	Line X		Inactive
	Line 3		Direct tracks to Jatinegara
	Island platform, the doors are opened on the right side of the train arrival on line 3, or on the left side of the train arrival on line 4
	Line 4		to Kampung Bandan/Angke	(Bekasi Timur) →

Services

The following is a list of train services at the Tambun Station.^[8]

Passenger services

• KAI Commuter
  • Cikarang Loop Line (Full Racket)
    • to Cikarang (direct service)
    • to Cikarang (looping through Manggarai-Kampung Bandan-Pasar Senen and vice versa)
  • Cikarang Loop Line (Half Racket), to Angke/Kampung Bandan (via Tanah Abang and Duri) and Cikarang

Incidents

• On 12 August 2008 at 07.31 WIB, Local Train 681 for the Karawang-Jakarta Kota route derailed on line 4. There were no casualties in this incident.^[9]
• On 21 June 2022, at 10:55 WIB, The Argo Sindoro train (with train number KA 11) collided with Toyota Avanza on the Walet level crossing. The car was dragged up to about 1.2 km before entering the Tambun Station, and the driver died.^[10]