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History Background Main article: PNR South Main Line The Manila Railroad celebrated the first Manila–Legazpi Bicol Express on May 8, 1938. The South Main Line was first proposed in 1875 as part of the plan for the Luzon railway network. The line was first opened as the Main Line South in 1916 and its first named service was the Lucena Express to Lucena, Quezon. The Bicol Express opened three ...
The Light Rail Transit Line 2, also known as LRT Line 2, LRT-2 or Megatren, is a heavy rail rapid transit line in Metro Manila in the Philippines, generally running in an east–west direction along the Radial Road 6 and a portion of the Circumferential Road 1, referred to as the Purple Line, and previously known as the Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 or MRT Line 2 (MRT-2).
Plans were also laid out for a 13.9 kilometers (8.6 miles) additional spur line, known as the MRT 7 Katipunan Spur Line, that aims to connect the line from Tandang Sora station to the LRT Line 2 at Katipunan and Marikina stations; the U.P. Town Center, the Ateneo de Manila University, the Riverbanks Center, and the MRT 4 Cainta Station.
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The first is the 56 km (35 mi) south section of the North–South Commuter Railway, an electrified double-track line connecting Metro Manila and Laguna to Central Luzon, which is served by the North Main Line. Another is the South Long Haul project which will connect southern Metro Manila with the Bicol Region.
The North–South Commuter Railway ( Filipino: Daambakal Pangkomyuter na Hilaga–Timog) ( NSCR) also known as the Clark–Calamba Railway, is a 147-kilometer (91-mile) urban rail transit system under construction in the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Running from New Clark City in Capas to Calamba, Laguna with 36 stations and four ...
History Further information: History of Facebook 2003–2006: Thefacebook, Thiel investment, and name change Original layout and name of Thefacebook in 2004, showing Al Pacino's face superimposed with binary numbers as Facebook's original logo, designed by co-founder Andrew McCollum Zuckerberg built a website called "Facemash" in 2003 while attending Harvard University. The site was comparable ...
Rail transportation in the Philippines is currently used mostly to transport passengers within Metro Manila and provinces of Laguna and Quezon, as well as a commuter service in the Bicol Region. Freight transport services once operated in the country, but these services were halted. However, there are plans to restore old freight services and ...