Classic route
Mutiara Timur
Surabaya → Ketapang · Indonesia
Mutiara Timur in pictures
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- Distance
- 312 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 49 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Kereta Api Indonesia
- Train
- CC201-hauled INKA stainless-steel coaches
- Countries
- Indonesia
- In service since
- 1973
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Java’s eastern express since 1973, tracing the north coast past Probolinggo before winding through coffee country to the Bali ferry pier at Ketapang.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17943127 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: KAI — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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