Gempol Sugar Mill 12

Gempol Sugar Mill was about 20km west of Cirebon in West Java. It operated a railway of 700mm gauge until the mill closed at the end of the 1994 season and was later demolished. Gempol 12 was built by Henschel (10437/1911) and typical of the majority of these locomotives being a 0-8-0T. There are a large number of sugar mills in Java, mainly in Central and East Java. For more information on those still working and their locomotives, check out Steam Locomotives in Java.

This photograph is courtesy of Suhadi Hadiwinoto (2000).

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