Blumentritt railway station
| Blumentritt Station Commuter rail |
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 Platform area of Blumentritt station |
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| Address | Old Antipolo Street Sampaloc, Manila |
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| Coordinates | 14°37′21.33″N 120°59′5.22″E / 14.6225917°N 120.9847833°ECoordinates: 14°37′21.33″N 120°59′5.22″E / 14.6225917°N 120.9847833°E | ||||||||||
| Lines | █ PNR Southrail | ||||||||||
| Connections | Transfer to Yellow Line via Blumentritt sidewalk to Blumentritt station. | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Rebuilt | 2009 | ||||||||||
| Accessible |  |
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| Code | BLU | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Philippine National Railways | ||||||||||
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Blumentritt station is a station on the South Main Line ("Southrail") of the Philippine National Railways. Like all PNR stations, it is at grade. It is located at the corner of Old Antipolo Street and Rizal Avenue in Sampaloc, Manila and derives its name from nearby Blumentritt Street, which is named after the Czech professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, friend of José Rizal and sympathizer of the Filipino cause.
The station is the second station southbound from Tutuban and is the first of four Southrail stations serving Sampaloc. It is near major landmarks such as the Blumentritt Market, SM City San Lazaro (previously the San Lazaro Hippodrome), the Chinese General Hospital and Medical Center and the Manila Chinese Cemetery. Further away from the station are the Manila North Cemetery, La Loma Cemetery and St. Theresa's College, Quezon City.
Blumentritt station is one of four stations whose original platforms have been retained for service. However, it is unique in the sense that the new platforms designed to accommodate new PNR diesel multiple units are not connected to the station's original platforms, unlike solutions employed at stations such as España, where the new platforms are directly connected to the original ones. The old platforms are still used to accommodate Commuter Express locomotives and especially intercity trains.
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Blumentritt station is accessible by jeepneys plying the Rizal Avenue route. Cycle rickshaws are also used to navigate around the station's immediate vicinity.
A Manila Light Rail Transit System station, also named Blumentritt, is located immediately above the station.
