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Saloon train of the Governor General

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