0-6-0 Steam Locomotives in Indonesia

Class SS 1/500/24/C22/C13 (Locobase 4725)

Data from [] . See Indra Krishnamurti at [] for building dates and numbers both of predecessor railways and the Indonesian State Railways. See also "Lokomotif C22" in Wikipedia (translated by Google) at [], last accessed 27 August 2026.:Works numbers were 1842-1865 in 1895.

As often happened with large batches of locomotives originally bought to support construction projects, these two dozen six-coupled tanks originally worked on the SVW beginning in 1895. To accommodate the firebox between the wheels, Cockerill mounted the first and second driving axles on an inside frame and the third within an outside frame. Wikipedia adds that the design "necessitated exceptionally long crank pins on the inner-framed wheels of the first two axles." (A photograph shows the SV 1 fitted with constant-lead outside radial valve gear, which Locobase supposes meant both the main rod and connecting rods met the crank pins further away from the centerline than usual.)

Wikipedia details the ambitious scope: "Its objectives included flood control, the creation of raw water reservoirs, and the establishment of an irrigation system for lands along the banks of the Bengawan Solo River, ensuring that local communities had sufficient water supplies for agriculture throughout the year."

Ambitious, yes, but cost overruns soon beset the project and the Colonial Office cancelled the SVW in 1900. Its builder sold its engines to the Staats Spoorwegen, which placed them in their own 500 class. Thy continued to support construction in both Java and Sumatra. Two of the original 24 served the PsSM, which bought a third from Cockerill in 1911; they took numbers 5-7 and later comprised the C22 class during the Japanese occupation.

Japanese occupiers placed the remaining 500s in class C13, a designation retained by the Djawatan Kereta Api Repoeblik Indonesia (1945) and PNKA (Perusahaan Negara Kereta Api) in 1963.