Bangil railway station

Bangil Station (BG) is a class I (one) railway station located in Pogar, Bangil, Pasuruan Regency; entered within eastern border of Operational Area VII Surabaya of Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) at the height of ± 9 meters above sea level (railway line Surabaya-Bangil).

So, at the beginning of the operation, the SS didn't have large and powerful locomotives yet to accommodate trains passing through the mountainous route of Malang.

[3] Over time, the shed became a stopover for larger and more powerful locomotives, such as the mallet locomotive 2-6-6-0T SS520 classes (DKA CC10s), ex-Preanger (West Java) mountain locomotives 2-12-2T SS800 classes (DKA F10) also known as "Javanic" and the express steam engines 4-6-4T SS1100 and SS1300 classes (DKA C27 and C28) to serve the express train from Surabaya to Malang named Vlugge Vijf (The Fast Five) which at the first operational had five round trips serving passengers from Surabaya to Malang.

The Vlugge Vijf had ever booked a record just only 75 minutes from Surabaya to Malang because the line from Surabaya to Porong was linked by double-track line (later was shut down to only single track during Japanese occupation in World War II, transported for railway construction in Burma or another region).

In some records, the original main building was bombed and destroyed during 2nd Dutch Military Aggression against the Republic of Indonesia, (see Operation Kraai) in 1948.

After the battle, the DKA-RI (the Department of Railways of the Republic of Indonesia) rebuilt the main building of the station at the following year.

[8][9] To the south of the station, behind an abandoned locomotive depot there was branch connected to Pandaan and Japanan operated by a private tramway company named Modjokerto Stoomtram Maatschappij (MdjSM) or Mojokerto Steam Tramway as for Bangil-Japanan-Mojokerto rail line which opened on May 4, 1919.

The sugar mill itself was defunct around 1932/1933 followed by Pandaan and Japanan as the result of Great Depression, then Sumberredjo was re-acquired by NV.

One of the first fleet of Staatsspoorwegen flat-track steam engine manufactured by Fox, Walker & Co. for Surabaya-Bangil line
The last surviving "the express" SS1300 class locomotive, the ex-SS1321 (become C2821) with smoke deflector at the front of its water tank, preserved at Ambarawa Railway Museum
This was a 1912 map image of the first Modjokerto Steam Tramway's line to Pandaan (Pandakan) which was inaugurated in September 1899 before being shifted to the south of Bangil station in 1919.
A map issued in 1937 shows new tram line of Modjokerto Steam Tramway to Pandaan (red arrow) established in 1919, the State Railway line to Sumberredjo sugar mill (yellow arrow)
Kantjil Mas Textile Factory (ex-Sumberredjo sugar mill) established in 1937