Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij

Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (NIS) company head office (now known as Lawang Sewu), Semarang, Dutch East Indies

The Nederlandsch-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (Dutch East Indies Railway Company), abbreviated NIS, was the railway company in charge of rail transport in Java, Dutch East Indies. The company's headquarters were in Semarang. The railway connected Semarang with Yogyakarta and Surakarta and in 1873 they also connected the Willem I Railway Station of Ambarawa and Kedungjati and Batavia. Later the network expanded to Bandung and Surabaya.

The company's iconic headquarters building in Semarang was designed by Cosman Citroen.

See also

• Kereta Api Indonesia—a successor of the company.

Gallery

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  A Dutch East Indian Railway Company steam train crosses a railway bridge over the Code River (pronounced: [tʃo:ɖe]) in Jogjakarta on the line between Semarang and the "Vorstenlanden" (the Sultanate of Jogjakarta), Central Java

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  Offices, power station and high-reservoir of the Central Working-Hall of the NIS in Jogjakarta (now Indonesian Railways Locomotive Workshop)

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  A steam locomotive runs on a railway bridge of the Dutch East Indian Railway Company on the line between Secang, Magelang and Parakan, Temanggung, Central Java

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