Batavia Buitenzorg Spoorweg Mij

This was a privately owned line mooted in the early 1860s and several false starts were made but nothing much was done and the Government called in the NIS in the late 1860's. Even they faced similar difficulties but the line was finally built in 1870 and opened in 1871 between Batavia Noord (just to the north of Jakarta Kota) and Buitenzorg (Bogor). Javabode, a local newspaper on 15 September 1871, wrote about the opening of the first railway line in Batavia. The entire fleet of 4-coupled tank locomotives was built by Beyer Peacock between 1871 and 1898. The NIS effectively ran the line and took over 5 of the locomotives in 1899 and the rest in 1911, presumably replacing them with 6-coupled locomotives and sending the 4-coupled tanks to their new tram lines in Central Java. In 1913 the line was officially taken over by the NIS.

 One locomotive, B1103, was reportedly to be preserved at Lempujangan in 1971 but has since disappeared.

This photograph was taken by Dusty Durrant at Gundih in October 1970. It is the only known photograph of a locomotive from this railway. the B10 was very similar while the B14 was a 2-4-2T version. This may help in identifying any older types if any old pictures of this railway come to the surface in future.