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June 24, 2011
Bicol Express completes final test run

MANILA, Philippines (June 24, 2011) – Bicol Express has completed its final test run this morning when a 6-coach assembly carrying a 157-member contingent arrived at the Tutuban station at 8:45 A.M. from its overnight return trip from Naga City.

MANILA, Philippines (June 24, 2011) – Bicol Express has completed its final test run this morning when a 6-coach assembly carrying a 157-member contingent arrived at the Tutuban station at 8:45 A.M. from its overnight return trip from Naga City.

June 17, 2011
Bicol Express: 1 more test run before regular trips

Naga City (June 17 2011) - Leaving nothing to chance on matters of safe and reliable travel, the Philippine National Railways (PNR) shall do a final test run of the Bicol Express on June 22, one week before the start of its regular runs.

Naga City (June 17 2011) - Leaving nothing to chances on matters of safe and reliable travel, the Philippine National Railways (PNR) shall do a final test run of the Bicol Express on June 22, one week before the start of its regular runs.

The test train that rolls in several air-conditioned and sleeper coaches shall travel at night from from Manila to Naga City to simulate the usual travel environment and schedules.

The Bicol Express did 2 previous test runs last year and 1 back in May.

May 10, 2011
Train Fares to Increase Too

Naga City  (May 6, 2011) – Trains, the most cost-effective of all means of land transportation,  will not be spared from the ill effects of continued oil price increases as the Philippine National Railways (PNR)  imposes fare hike in the middle of May this year.

Naga City  (May 6, 2011) – Trains, the most cost-effective of all means of land transportation,  will not be spared from the ill effects of continued oil price increases as the Philippine National Railways (PNR)  imposes fare hike in the middle of May this year.

Engineer Contancio Toledano, the Division Chief for Operation of the PNR, confirms that the PNR Management shall impose minimal fare increase, yet to be finalized,  because the present 0.80 peso per kilometer rate is no longer sustainable.

December 14, 2010
Movies and Trains

EVERY NOW AND THEN, I would hear murmurs of queries on when train services to Bicol will resume. Most of these queries morph into desires and nostalgia to see the classic iron horse back clanging and honking along the tracks of our region.

EVERY NOW AND THEN, I would hear murmurs of queries on when train services to Bicol will resume. Most of these queries morph into desires and nostalgia to see the classic iron horse back clanging and honking along the tracks of our region. For now, as said in one of my poems, “the train station is quiet,” literally quiet—no personnel, no passengers, no vendors, no trains, only remnants of the rich past, memories of trains chugging to a complete halt at the station where throngs of passengers were caught in the noisy, liminal stupor of waiting and saying goodbyes.