Kota artifact part of old railway structure: Expert
19 December 2006 (Jakarta Post) - Underground structure found in Old Jakarta might be part of an old Dutch railway structure.
Kota artifact part of old railway structure: Expert
An underground structure found by workers while digging a pedestrian tunnel in Jakarta’s Old Town district might have been part of the foundation for an old railway structure from the 19th century, a recent analysis reveals.
“We have compared old maps of the area and found that in the 1800s, there were three railway tracks intersecting at that point (where the structure was found),” tunnel project structural expert Josia Irwan Rastandi said.
The old map reveals that after the southern city fortress wall was demolished, the Dutch built two railway tracks running east to west and a tram track running north to south.
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Tags: historical archaeology, Indonesia archaeology, Jakarta Old Town, Jakarta Railway, Java, Josia Irwan Rastandi
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