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** MAY PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION **

This months competition on the 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' group is railway bridges in the Philippines.

Members are invited to contribute their railway bridge photos and to vote (by liking) for their favourites!

Winners will appear here on the blog.

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In other group news, over the coming months the Feedburner service, that which allows you to receive blog post updates via your email, will cease to be provided.

Once this is gone, updates will only be via the following:

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Other options may be explored in the future!

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Remember, we are always looking for anything relating to the railways of the Philippines. Photos, documents, old trip reports, listings etc.

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If you have anything that we can share with others and further this wonderful hobby, please email us.

PANAY PT7 - PASSI CITY

 

Passi City was last port of call one my day 

out with Kuya Ed.
Passi, founded in 1766, and with a population of 80,544 in 2015, is a fascinating location and still retains much of railway interest.

Passi City was also the most major location between the two railway termini 

Coming from the Iloilo direction, it is very hard to miss the historic railway bridge over the Jalaur River, apparently also known as the 'Watanabe Terror Bridge'.

The bridge was saved from removal due to it's historic value, being the site where Japanese executed Philippine guerrillas during WW2.

The Jalaur River bridge builders plate has thankfully been saved. 1908 making it around 113 years old.

Kuya Ed told me that this was the dispatchers office and that there is (was?) a roundhouse underneath.
Sadly, it is all taken over as residences, so close inspection is problematic at best.

The station itself was in use as a school of sorts.

Though I read a recent report about the town wanting to restore the derelict station. A photo with the story appeared to show the roof being totally gone.

Any more recent updates would be greatly welcome.

Following a wonderful morning of exploration, we all went for some lunch before bidding farewell to my friend Kuya Ed.

Midway Fresh Market and Restaurant.

Little did I know that this would be the last time :-(

We carried on alone for the rest of the trip to Roxas City. Other locations will be covered in this series, though much was missed without Ed's guidance.

Kuya Eduard Labadia wrote a bit of an article about 
Passi City here.

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Other Parts In The Series:

Panay Part 1 - Panay Railway Intro

Panay Part 2 - NAIA To Iloilo

Panay Part 3 - Iloilo Jeepneys & Shipping

Panay Part 4 - Lapaz Station / PR HQ

Panay Part 5 - New Lucena Station

Panay Part 6 - Pototan Station

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Philippine Railway Historical Society - Group

 It has been over a year since our last LRT/MRT update.

As with all 'Philippine Railway Historical Society' publications, it is published free for you and can be downloaded HERE.

All Systems - All Vehicles - Latest Situation

Back issues to 2012 also available here.

Contributions to future issues are always welcome.

Download: LRT/MRT Update - November 2020 V5

Philippine Jeepney

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PRHS - Philippine Transportation

Photo Competition August People

 

A disappointing show of votes this month sadly, however it did give us a number of winners with six votes each.
A big thank you to everyone who took a second to vote for their favourite shots.

Inside the new INKA DMU - Dirk Paul Celoso

INKA and EMU At Tutuban - Dirk Paul Celoso

ROTEM and INKA DMUs at Tutuban - Jared Isaiah Jimena

917 crosses ROTEM at Blumentritt - Maverick Ocampo

Kogane and crossing keeper - Maverick Ocampo

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Second place goes to Jared Isaiah Jimena for his shot of 921 at Tutuban station which received 5 votes.

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Congratulations to this months winners. Our next competition will be in October, the topic still to be decided.

As always, the following are a selection of other photos that were entered into the competition.

Mark Chua was the winner of the inaugural photo competition.

Here he is seen with the first day of the reopened extension  of the Metro North Commuter.

This was taken between Sangandaan and Gov. Pascual.

I love this shot of boom gate repairs being undertaken.
I think it is at Espana station.
Mark Leus Masangcay

Great shot that not only shows the little photographed FTI station, but captures all the passengers off a recently stopped train.
Rhonor Rae Arasula

Another historic shot from Mark Chua.
Showing Mark with Sir Junn Magno upon the arrival of new DMU sets from INKA Indonesia.

Finally, a photo from our resident artist Fremel Bernal.

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Thank you to everyone who contributed to the latest competition. I am looking forward to our next one.

Did you know that we are now responsible for the Facebook page of the

Lucena Rail Heritage Committee?

Come check the page out.

We also have started the first of our 

location spotlight pages.
Spotlight: Sucat station

 

Tutuban Station - 2009

Tutuban 2009 - William 'Bill' Sullivan

Below is a photographic look at the new Tutuban station (Manila) during trackwork in 2009.
The original station, now 'Tutuban Centermall', was located some distance beyond the 'Philippine National Railways' offices seen in the background. For some year, passengers had to board at the temporary Tayuman station, located at the north end of the yard.

All photos were taken by the late Bill Sullivan (PRHS VP) and remain the copywrite of him. Please contact us if you wish to make use of any of these images.

Image: Copywrite of Google.

Above: An interesting collection of rollingstock sitting at the far west end of the station.
From left to right, a rake of near extinct CMC/CTC railcar stock, a GC open wagon, two fuel tankers and the 7A class coaches that were then dwindling in number due to the arriving ROTEM railcars.

Interesting to note that another track, to the left of the CMC/CTC railcars, used to lead down to Manila North Port and, much earlier, the Pasig River. While the line still exists, much of it has been covered and is not visible.

Above: An NR class coach sits at one of the platforms. This view is looking east across the station.

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