Description

The train is a form of rail transport that consists of a series of vehicles driven along
the railway line to transport cargo or passengers. The driving force is provided by a
separate locomotive or individual motors in some units. Although historical propulsion
steam engines dominate, modern forms of the most common is a diesel engine and
electric locomotives, supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources
including horses, rope or wire, gravity, pneumatic, battery, and gas turbines. Railroads
usually consist of two, three or four tracks, with a monorail and maglev guideways in the
mix. The word 'train' comes from the Old French language trahiner, from Latin trahere
'pull, pull ".
There are different types of trains are designed for a specific purpose. The train can
consist of a combination of one or more of the locomotives and train cars attached, or
some units driven himself (or occasionally a single or articulated powered coach, called a
train car). The first train with the shape drawn using ropes, gravity powered or pulled by
horses. From the beginning of the 19th century almost all supported by a steam
locomotive. From the 1910s onwards the steam locomotive being replaced by less and
clean (but more complex and expensive) diesel locomotives and electric locomotives,
while at the same time some vehicles driven unit itself either power system became much
more common in passenger service

History
Railway history as the history of transportation generally beginning with the
invention of the wheel. Originally known chariot which only consists of one train (series),
and then made horse-drawn carriage which attracts more than one series and running on
certain lines made of iron (rail) and called the gauge. It is used especially in the mining
area where there are lorries were sequenced and drawn by horsepower.
After James Watt invented the steam engine, Nicolas Cugnot making three-wheeled
vehicle fuel vapor. People refer to it as an iron horse vehicles. Then Richard Trevithick
made a locomotive engine coupled with the carriage and use on the show in front of the
public. George Stephenson locomotive won enhance race track locomotives and used in
the Liverpool-Manchester. At that time steam locomotive that used constructed locusts.
Completion for the improvement done to get a more effective steam locomotive, big
power, and is able to train more attractive.
The discovery of electricity by Michael Faraday made several discoveries that
followed the invention of the electric equipment electric motor. The electric motor is then
used to create an electric tram that is the forerunner of an electric train. Then Rudolf
Diesel diesel train raises a more powerful and more efficient than steam locomotives.
Along with the development of electrical and magnetic technology more advanced, they
invented magnetic trains with speeds above the speed of a regular train. Japan in the
1960s operate KA Super Ekspress Shinkanzen Tokyo-Osaka route that eventually
developed further so as to reach almost all of Japan. France then operate trains similar to
the TGV name

Types of trains in Indonesia

Diesel locomotive
Diesel locomotive is the type of locomotive diesel engine and generally use diesel
fuel from the engine. There are two main types of train rail diesel is diesel hydraulic and
diesel-electric train.

Types of railroads in Indonesia

Conventional rail trains
Conventional rail train is a train that we usually encounter. Using rail consisting of
two steel rod placed in the teak tough pads. In certain areas who possess the level of steep
height, use a serrated rails placed in the middle of the rail and using a special locomotive
that has gears, and only on the island of Sumatra and Java

Type of train track in Indonesia

The train runs above ground surface. Generally, a common train is a train of this
type. Construction costs for the train is the cheapest surface than underground or
elevated. Generally, the track surface is in Indonesia were built before World War 2