LRT2 DEPOT VISIT - 2010 - PART 1

 

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Again we return to 2010 as the process of going through all the photos of that trip continues.

During this trip, the PRHS was lucky to have been granted permission to inspect the LRT2 depot in Santolan (Pasig, Metro Manila).

The inspection took us through the yard, workshop, and control room. It was a very interesting look behind the scenes of this busy elevated Manila railway.

This is the first of a two part series looking at this important location on the day of our visit.

The LRT2 opened from Santolan to Recto in 2003, the extended to Antipolo in 2001.
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Entrance to the workshops.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Stabling yard for sets awaiting their turn to run.

Photo: Brad Peadon

LRT2 Yard area.

Photo: Brad Peadon

We now venture inside the workshop.

Photo: Brad Peadon

LRT2 Set 12 inside workshops.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Suspect this is a wheel lathe inside the workshops.

Photo: Brad Peadon

Thanks to the management of the LRT2 for allowing us a close look at the workings inside the workshops.

Photo: Brad Peadon

LRT2 Control Room

Probably one of the bigger highlights of the visit was being allowed the cover the control room.

Highly interesting to observe where the magic happens.

Photos: Brad Peadon

Part 2 Coming Soonish.

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Thanks To:

Lyn Paragas

LRT2 Management and Staff.

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Further Reading.

LRT2 - Wikipedia

LRT2 Website

PRHS: Website/Publications

PRHS: Blogsite

PRHS: Facebook Group

Love The Philippines - Friendship Group

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HONDAGUA - QUEZON, PHILIPPINES

Opened: 10th May 1916 as part of the extension of the south 

line from Padre Burgos to Calauag.

Hondagua remains a major location on the main south line to Bicol.

Track work trains are based here. It has a number of roads, a triangle that has been partly covered by illegal settlers and once served a large flour mill in the town.

Photo: 1926 (MRR General Managers Report)

PRHS Archive

NAGA STATION / YARD / DEPOT

Video Overview

A visit was made to the Naga station and depot area back on January 6th, 2019. Attached is a two part video covering this visit and what was there on the day.

Part 1 - Station Area.

Part 2 - Locoshed.

Recently, while cataloguing some of the 100,000 photos that make up my mess of an archive, I came across a number of shots from my earliest trips to the Philippines.
The greatest memories are from those taken in 1999, the very first time I visited the country. I still remember arriving there, having no idea of what it was going to be like.
Hobby wise, I only had a couple of notes mentioning Tutuban yard, Paco station and a rumoured workshop that was situated somewhere in Caloocan. I really knew nothing about the railways and, to be honest, never expected it would lead to both starting the 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' (PRHS), or that I would make some truly great friends.

  To this day I wish I took far more photos that trip. Those that I did take, both railway and otherwise, are all now a part of history, a time that has now greatly changed.
Over the next few weeks I shall place these photos up on our blog. Not all will be train related, but then, the PRHS has expanded it's scope well beyond just rail.

  From that very first day at Espana station in 1999, I knew I had found something special there. Two decades, and 12 visits, later and I am still pounding the cameras every time I go there, and still learning new things along the way.

I hope you enjoy this little series showcasing the earliest shots I took there.

916 - The original 908.

2542 was not long for this world. She had hauled her last train and was now awaiting her turn to receive the gas axe.

Still think this is the best livery the LRT1 1G sets ever wore.

RIP 2536

Back in 1999, the original Paco station had already been replaced by this temporary structure just a short distance south. This replacement was nothing near as impressive as the original and would again be replaced by a third 

station half way between the initial two.
The curve where this temporary station is seen, is actually right where the junction was for the former line to Cavite. Very little of this former branch exists today, save for some bridge piers and a station building at the former terminus.

More Photos Coming Soon.

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