Caloocan station
Caloocan Station | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Location | Between Apolinario Mabini St. and Samson Rd. Sangandaan, Caloocan |
| Owned by | Philippine National Railways |
| Platforms | Island platform |
| Tracks | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | CAL |
| History | |
| Opened | March 24, 1891 |
| Rebuilt | 2009 (partly) |
Caloocan railway station used to be a railway station on the railway line connecting Manila to northern Luzon. It was situated adjacent to Apolinario Mabini St., close to Sangandaan Police Station. The station was abandoned in the 1980s like the rest of the railway stations on Northrail, but was supposed to be replaced by a new one in as a result of the rehabilitation of Southrail and the Northrail project, a rebuilding of the line from Manila to Pampanga which would partly use the old right-of-way. The project commenced in 2007, construction has halted though as of 2011. The ill-governed Northrail project may continue after renegotiation, possibly in a changed way.[1][2][3][4]
References
- ^ Northrail construction now 'on track', bayan-natin.blogspot.com, original article at The Manila Bulletin, retrieved October 20, 2011.
- ^ Philippine National Railways, retrieved October 20, 2011.
- ^ CAPEX Program (October 10, 2011), docs.google.com, retrieved October 20, 2011
- ^ Chinese foreign aid goes offtrack in the Philippines Archived April 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Roel Landingin for PCIJ (Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism), retrieved October 20, 2011