The Bicol Express Resumption has been postponed. The results of the track testing had been disastrous. It is a typical story of Filipino optimism. Early in 2012, the famous Bicol Express resumed service service...
A PNR train to test the tacks and bridges was sent from Manila to Naga last week. The test engineers were not too happy. The new Bicol Express should restart on December 15, 2016....
The Philippine National Railways (PNR) plans to resume its famous Bicol Express operations as early as December 15, 2016. Everything depends on the final inspection by transportation officials next week to ensure the train’s...
MindaRail, the Mindanao Railway System is said to start construction in 2017. I have already written about this project. The first article from May 2015 looks at the Feasibility Study. The last article from...
Bicol Express : Tech-Movie needed much more time to be published. Sorry for the delay and thank you for waiting. Last year in November I published the first movie: Bicol Express – The Movie. In the...
Philippines Rail and High Speed Train Dreams are flaming again since the election of the new president. [updated] The Philippines had once been a great railway nation. Rotten railway tracks can still be found...
The famous Bicol Express is now interrupted in two spots. After a landslide heavily damaged the tracks in Quezon late 2012, a flashflood heavily damaged a bridge near Ragay, Camarines Sur. A section of...
Bicol Express – someones get hungry and others get nostalgic. PNR, the Philippine National Railways on September 19, 2005 has reopened a section of the famous Bicol Express between Naga CIty and Legazpi City in...
Yesterday an important part of the Manila-Legazpi railway also known as Metro Pacific or SMC has been reopened. You may remember the famous Bicol Express, it isn’t yet reestablished. After only 9 months of...
Feasibility Study for Mindanao Railway? Since I live in the Philippines I’ve seen many of these studies. It seems that they have to occupy the staff at NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority). MRT...
President Benigno Aquino wants to make the tourism sector one of the key drivers of the economy. In the air: The Philippine government plans to upgrade 12 airports, including Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport...
As if Metro Pacific Investments Corporation (MPIC) had read my yesterday’s blog entry they announced that the country will soon have its first bullet train. The plan for the bullet train is to construct the...
Philippine National Railroad (PNR) did a hard and good job this year. They extended the “Mayon Limited” from Naga City to Pili and Iriga City in Camarines Sur; Polangui, Ligao and Travesia in Albay. ...
When we speak with friends about trains in the Philippines, they look at us as if we told them a story out of 1001 nights. Do trains really exist in the Philippines? Yes, they...
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