The Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam (NL) has shared unique footages with 24Trains.tv. The footage was made at the beginning of the last century (period 1910-1930) in the then Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia. Beautiful steam locomotives, real cab rides and many more beautiful videos can be seen in this exclusive six-part series! Credits: Eye Filmmuseum

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Railways in the Dutch East Indies

Part 1 

Amateur video of the expansion of the tram network in and around Batavia (Indonesia); many images of the construction of the route, the staff, the supervisors, various tram cars, the construction of a large depot and the film ends with a phantom ride by steam train through the Preanger. Footages were shot between 1928-1932. Credits: Eye Filmmuseum

Construction of the tram railway route

A train journey in central Java; from Willem I station to Djocja; filmed from the front of the train.
Landscapes along the route; stations; the main road at Magelang, a Chinese quarter, a sugar factory, tobacco fields.
Estimated date of recording: 1912/1913. Credits: Eye Filmmuseum

Trip Willem I-Djocja

Footages of the special train of the governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, which covers the distance from Batavia to Surabaya in one day. Some close-ups of the locomotive and images from a side window. Also shots of the then new main workshops in Mangarai (Master Cornelis) with many white houses with gabled roofs (service houses) and of the construction of freight wagons. Footages of trains and railway workshops on Java around 1920. Credits: Eye Filmmuseum

Saloon train of the Governor General

Part 2

Footages of the railway line Kroja - Margasari. This video was most possibly recorded between 1919-1923. Credit: Eye Filmmuseum

Railway line Kroja - Margasari

Travel along the State Railways on Java Line Poerwakarta - Padalarang. Credit: Eye Filmmuseum

Railway line Poerwakarta - Padalarang 

Travel along the State Railways on Java Line Weltevreden - Meester Cornelis. Credit: Eye Filmmuseum

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