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Purworejo Station

When the colonial period Purworejo had strategic value according to the Dutch Government. One of fact is the construction and archaeological remains of the railway line in Purworejo. There are many train stations in Purworejo, such as Kutoarjo Station, Purworejo Station, Jenar Station, etc. Most of them are built by Dutch. Not all of them can be used to traffic of train's actively. Purworejo Station is one of station in Purworejo that is not active traffic.

Purworejo Station located at Mayjend Sutoyo, Purworejo, Central Java and it is in operation area 5 Purwokerto. This station is managed by PT KAI (persero). It was built by train state company of Dutch goverment (Staats Spoowegen). It was opened and activated at July 20th 1887.

This station has the building structure from the material of bricks as high 8 m and area total is about 848 m². The station is in position of high +63m dpt. It has many doors with and colours brown and white . Signal system still using the system signal mechanic Alkmar and there is no input signal. There is just output signal as the direction to Kutoarjo Station.

Purworejo station was closed three times ;

• When Japan period (1952-1955) then it was activated and became plot stripe in transfer to Djawatan Kereta Api (DKA) 
• It was closed again in 1977 and when decade of 1990 it was opened again  
• Now, the station is not active because; railway and railway's bolster are not suitable, there is no little stone enough to prop railway and road's structure is not weight or tonage of train.  

      Balai Pelestarian Peninggalan Purbakala (BPPP) of Central Java input Purworejo station as one of cultural heritage in Purworejo and it is protected by the country.