Cibebek Railway

Cibebek Railway or CR is a commuter rail system in the Cibebek-Kota Baru metropolitan area, Karasem. Cibebek Railway is a subsidiary of Karasem Railway (KNR), Karasem railway company. Infrastructure of the system owned by Karasem Railway although it's operated and designed (if modification applied) by Cibebek Railway. Cibebek Railway share the track with the intercity, regional and other local trains which operated to or from Cibebek and Kota Baru.

Cibebek Railway is the largest and most used urban commuter railway in Karasem. As for 2017 it has average daily usage 1,493,757 people, higher than Meriah Urban Railway system 504,302 passenger in FY2016 and with Meriah Mass Rapid Transportation combined, 711,700 people in 2016.

Prior to Karasem Independence
History of Cibebek Railway started in 1900 when Dutch Malaya built the Narrow gauge (1,067 mm) railway from New Breda (now Pondok Daun) toward Tandjoeng Doeren in order to transport the industrial and plantation products between city. In 1906, Railway between the modern day Kota Baru Station toward Bankalan opened for the logistic of growing plantation area in the eastern Kasem Island and upcoming crossing port toward Natuna Island. Later in 1912, Dutch futher extended the railway branching with the existing line from the south of Krajan River toward the Tanjoeng Pojok to accommodate the growing settlement in the northwest part of Kasem Island.

In 1942, Japanese occupied Dutch Malaya and Kamogawa formed as the capital of the puppet state of Karasuma. During this period, railway around Kamogawa revitalized and rearranged into current network for better utilization of the mining and other strategic resources available in the region. Railway betweenn   where Kamogawa (Cibebek) works as a strategic location in Malaya Archipelago area as it become the governing central of region. After Karasem independence in 1949, Kamogawa left as the national 3rd largest city while have the largest urban rail network in overall. Electrification of urban route done as early as 1943 where rail between Krajan Station to Kota Baru electrified later massively implemented at 1978 as the preparation of Kota Baru as new capital of Karasem.

Rolling Stock
Cibebek Railway operates rolling stock both self manufactured trains and used second-hand trains imported from Japan. Trains generally operate in 8 and 10 cars per train set with exception of 3 set 6 cars trains in Ciluar Line, and one for both 7 and 9 car trains from special cases.

Trains operated in Cibebek Railway by 1978 standard operate with Air Conditioning unit. Self designed rolling stock come after 1978 (3000 and 4000 Series) designed with AC unit while rolling stock designed prior to 1978 (2000 Series) retro-fitted with air conditioning between 1985-1990. All imported second-hand trains also operate with Air Conditioning Unit.

Present

 * Cibebek Railway 2000 Series
 * Cibebek Railway 4000 Series
 * JNR 103 series - ex JNR rolling stock
 * JNR 203 series - ex JNR rolling stock
 * JR East 209 series - ex JR East rolling stock
 * Tokyu 8000 series - ex-Tokyu rolling stock

Future

 * Cibebek Railway 5000 Series

Past

 * Cibebek Railway 1000 Series - mostly scrapped, one set preserved at Minami Kamogawa Railway Museum
 * Cibebek Railway 3000 Series - transfered (bought) by Meriah Urban Railway to operate in Meriah
 * KNR 108 Series - scrapped, one set preserved at Minami Kamogawa Railway Museum
 * KNR 135 Series - transferred to other area in Karasem

Accidents
Although Cibebek Railway is known to has higher standard of safety compared to other railway system in Karasem, incident and accident happened occasionally mostly minor collision with traffic in at grade rail cross. Several major accident do happened in this urban rail system, includes:


 * 8 September 2015 - Set 4120f and 4069f had rear end crash at Yanagi Station, no fatalities reported although some passenger suffer minor shocks.
 * 2 April 2003 - Collision with city bus in at grade rail crossing near Sukagawa Station, 3 bus passenger dies and dozens injured while Set 3113f which involved in crash suffer damage in front
 * 7 July 1991 - High speed head-on collision happened between a Cibebek Railway 3000 Series car (set 3144f) with the incoming locomotive pulled regional train between Sadang Station and Cipare Station. Reported 287 people dies, mostly from the commuter train while both train set sustain major damages. This was the worst incident in Karasem Railway History.