Batara Kresna Railbus

Batara Kresna Railbus

Overview
Native nameBus rel Batara Kresna
OwnerKereta Api Indonesia
Surakarta city government
LocaleSurakarta Purwosari - Wonogiri
Stations5
Service
TypeRailbus
Operator(s)Kereta Api Indonesia
History
Opened5 August 2012; 12 years ago (2012-08-05)
Technical
Line length37 km
CharacterFully subsurface
Track gauge1 067 mm
Conduction systemWith driver

Batara Kresna Railbus (Indonesian: Bus rel Batara Kresna) is a railbus service in Central Java, Indonesia that operates between Purwosari Station in Surakarta and Wonogiri Station in Wonogiri Regency. It is operated by PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) and is a cooperation project between the Surakarta city government and KAI, when the city was led by Joko Widodo.[1] The service is the one of a few railbus service in Indonesia besides Lembah Anai railbus in West Sumatra and former Kertalaya railbus in South Sumatra.

The railbus took its name from a character in Mahabharata, Krishna or Kresna who is tasked with saving the world and upholding the truth after the war in Kurukshetra.

  1. ^ "Mengesankan! Berwisata di Solo Seraya Naik Railbus". Tribun Kaltim. Retrieved 9 September 2018.