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Kebonagung Sugar Mill |
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This mill, on the southern outskirts of Malang, had operational features which probably made it the most interesting for action photography in Java. You could photograph trains in the cane fields, running next to roads or down the middle of the small road through the village of Bumiayu. There were two flat crossings with the Malang - Blitar main line and another with the disused branch to Dampit. In addition there were two high viaducts although one was almost an impossibility and, if you were lucky, there were high volcanoes to both east and west. Alas, the presence of these tended to make things much cloudier than most other cane growing areas. Loaded trains sometimes ran in the mornings and while daylight afternoon trains were not guaranteed, as the pictures will show, they were sufficient if you were prepared to invest the time. In my early visits, I never really bothered with the road delivery yard across the Blitar road outside the mill, it would have been a quick and easy 'fix' as cane was transhipped manually from bullock carts. Later, it lost its importance as the mill installed a truck tipper which delivered the cane straight into the mill. There was even a little used branch that ran from its far end shown with 10 on a mud train. |
