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Welcome one and all to the 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' blogsite. This site was set up to share photos, historical pieces, comment and virtually anything else pertaining to transportation in the Philippines, with a special emphasis on rail. Occasional we vary from topic, but this is the less serious side of the hobby shining through - cause sometimes, in this miserable and uptight world, we just take ourselves a little too seriously.
Since 1999, the Philippine Railway Historical Society has regularly published items, FOR FREE, of railway interest on our PRHS Website. These include locomotive, rollingstock and transit updates, as well as our occasional magazine, 'Along Da Riles'.
Our interest base has grown over the years with our main Facebook railway group expanding to include groups interested in other Philippine Transport, modelling of Philippine transport and even a group for Philippine railfans interested in overseas railways.
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Thursday, November 19, 2020

PANAY PT5 - NEW LUCENA

 


New Lucena, a municipality in the province of Iloilo (Panay Island) was founded as Jimanban in 1877, later changing it's name to Lucena. Later again, in 1955, the 'New' was added to the name.
So, for some years, the Philippines had two Lucena stations, although they existed on different islands.

New Lucena was our first port of call on our journey across Panay from Iloilo to Roxas City.





There is nothing a history minded railfan loves more than to be out exploring old formations in search of any surviving railway relics.
Here Kuya Ed Labadia guides me around the formation through New Lucena.


Former railway formation at New Lucena.


Was happy to see lots of traditional jeepneys around New Lucena, so I set about photographing them as well :-)





Railway formation just beyond the New Lucena station site.


This is where the station stood. Kuya Ed seemed to be surprised that it had pretty much disappeared, so I suspect it was a more recent development.
I wonder where locals stand when they decide to just demolish railway property? Did they get permission, or just carry out the vandalism regardless?
It is interesting to compare it to the 2019  Google image at the bottom of this article. There has obviously more of this development going on.


Looking into New Lucena town proper.


Google Streetscape image of the former New Lucena station site, two years after my visit.
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New Lucena - PhilAtlas

New Lucena - iloilo.net.ph

Philippine Railway Historical Society Website

Philippine Railway Historical Society Group

Philippine Jeepney

Revive Panay Railways Group






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