the PNR comeback

[ghosthunter]

hey, nice rail cars. I would just wish people wouldn't vandalize it.

[jpdm]

PNR ROW: Sampaloc, Manila (Before)




PNR Row: Sampaloc, Manila (Today)

Squatters are gone

[jpdm]

Old Logo for the new PNR commuter train (DMU)



New Logo for the new PNR Commuter Train (DMU for Caloocan-Alabang Route only)

Courtesy of happosai from skyscrapercity

[Taurus]

This is just so nice. Bicol Express is back! :bike:

[shadow]

maganda ito!!! kailan start ng operation? kahit mahal pa ang fare ok lang....ang daming makikinabang sa mga taga south pwede hinde na magdala ng kotse....

[baludoy]

^nice pics.

i'm thinking if punta ako sa north ng maynila, pwede ko iwan ang kotse sa festival mall (o pwede din sa star mall mismo para mas malapit) sa alabang tapos konting lakad para makapunta sa station near liana's supermarket across the south super highway tapos train ride na. pwede!

[jpdm]

maganda ito!!! kailan start ng operation? kahit mahal pa ang fare ok lang....ang daming makikinabang sa mga taga south pwede hinde na magdala ng kotse....

July 30 yung Caloocan-Alabang commuter train service ( DMU-LRT 2 look alike train) I think. Filtrack ang tawag.

Yung Penafrancia or up to Bicol service September 2009 naman.The thrain to be used will be the ones being refurbished and commex train cars from Japan.

[testament11]

July 30 yung Caloocan-Alabang commuter train service ( DMU-LRT 2 look alike train) I think. Filtrack ang tawag.

Yung Penafrancia or up to Bicol service September 2009 naman.The thrain to be used will be the ones being refurbished and commex train cars from Japan.

sana maextend man lang up to north eto...

[jpdm]

sana maextend man lang up to north eto...

Yes. Yung Northrail. Northrail right of way cleared na. The malolos Station seems to be under construction already...



This is now the PNR Buendia station. ala na rin yung mga iskwating at tambay kasi may security guards na PNR...

[jpdm]

[SIZE=4]Arroyo aide says NorthRail firm to resume work [/SIZE]

July 10, 2009
The Philippine Builder

ANGELES CITY – A China-owned company that backed out of the Chinese-funded NorthRail project last February will return to work possibly in August, Edgardo Pamintuan, newly appointed president of the North Luzon Railways Corp. (NLRC) said on Wednesday.

“They will be back,” Pamintuan said, referring to the China National Machinery and Equipment Corp. (CNMEC). “I am sure. I’m very optimistic because I already talked with (the) commercial attaché (of China in the Philippines) last Sunday.”

Pamintuan, who is also chair of the Subic-Clark Alliance for Development Council and Luzon Urban Beltway Region, said he intervened to resolve the issue on orders of President Macapagal-Arroyo on June 30. “After our 30 minutes of discussion, the attaché told me, ‘If we had met earlier, we could have finished the project in two years and a half,’” he said, recalling their conversation.

Past accord

The project was conceptualized through a memorandum signed by former President Fidel Ramos and King Juan Carlos of Spain in 1994. China provided a [COLOR=#990000 ! important][COLOR=#990000 ! important]loan[/COLOR][/COLOR] of $400 million for the Caloocan City-City of Malolos [Bulacan] phase, for which the NLRC made a first draw down of $105 million on Sept. 29, 2004.

Since January 2005, the NLRC, a subsidiary of the Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA), has been paying $400,000 monthly for the loan’s interest. The BCDA and the NLRC have put up a counterpart of $107.819 million to the project. The National Housing Authority had spent about P6 billion to relocate around 20,000 families out of the old tracks of the Philippine National Railways Corp., where the railway system would be built.

In 2006, the Chinese government increased the loan to $1 billion to enable the Philippine government to extend the NorthRail to the Clark Freeport in Pampanga where the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport is located.

Pamintuan said he was meeting the Chinese ambassador to discuss the final details in the resumption of work by the CNMEC.

No work

His ocular inspection on Tuesday showed that 160 CNMEC employees, who are involved in survey and design work, had returned to China. Only 20 have remained but were not working.

Based on discussions with CNMEC and NLRC officials, Pamintuan said the contractor decided to abandon the project because it “refused to build on a piecemeal basis.”

According to him, the NLRC has not freed the alignment [on which the new tracks will be built] from right-of-way problems.

For instance, the foundations of several bridges have not been demolished.

“The Chinese said they need explosives. The NLRC people got P10 million for that and gave that to the [Armed Forces of the Philippines]. The AFP said their procurement process slowed down. I said that must not be the case. They can fast-track by doing a rebid purchase,” Pamintuan said.

On top of those problems, the entire project has not taken off because, he said, the CNMEC and the NLRC have “not come up with a schedule.”

“The design has not been approved. Only 22 km out of 34 km have been cleared.”

Hopefully, this will be finished in the next two years...under Villar presidency.hehehe

[daily commuter]

daily commuter:

btw, what will happen to the old trains bro? will they be rehabilitated to service another route or will they be used for scrap metal or something?

Sir Baludoy, some of the old trains are scheduled for scrapping. to name a few are those 7A units ng Bicol trains na nahulog sa bangin sa Quezon Province. Yun mga CTC na dati natin na nakikita na tatsulok ang bubong ay for scrapping na din daw.

Yun mga maayos pa na coaches fron Japan Railways ay aayusin para sa Bicol service (see post of JPDM w/photos from Railways and Industrial Heritage Society of the Philippines, Inc. www.rihspi.org).

[absinthe]

Nice looking DMUs there...

[daily commuter]

yehey to the new trains of PNR :cheer2:

[tozini]

Wow! malapit na pala magopen ang new PNR. Sana dumami pa. Pwede kaya lagyan ng Atoy bodykits at projector headlamp? Pimp my train.. Pasensya na sobrahan lang ako ng pagsearch sa inet ng commuter train.

[huggybear]

Guys and gals!
Na-move na po tomorrow ang official launching ng new coaches ng PNR.
Sasakay si GMA from Buendia to Tutuban.
Prepare your water balloons

[jpdm]

The new and official PNR logo.

Courtesy of mojacko of skyscrapercity

[jpdm]

Some of the PNR's newly refurbished stations:


San Andres Bukid



Pasay road repainting

Courtesy of Kaelthas18 of skyscrapercity

[jpdm]

Photos of the Korean made DMUs:















Courtesy of kaelthas of skyscrapercity

[jpdm]

Office of the President
Monday, 13 July 2009 PGMA to launch new PNR trains in Tutuban

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will formally launch tomorrow (Tuesday, July 14) the new trains of the newly- revitalized Philippine National Railways (PNR) and unveil the PNR corporate logo in ceremonies at Tutuban Station in Tondo, Manila.

The new trains will provide the public efficient and cheaper mode of transportation aside from spurring economic development in the Metropolis and southern parts of Luzon.

Slated to welcome the President at the launching site, are Vice President Noli de Castro, PNR chairman Michael Defensor, PNR General Manager Manuel Andal, Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza, and manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, among other officials.

The Chief Executive will then lead the unveiling of the new PNR corporate logo.

The President, along with the PNR officials, will then ride the new train from Tutuban to Buendia.

During the 20-minute ride, the President is expected to interact and converse with the PNR Suking Pasahero.

The newly-revitalized PNR has introduced the following to its railway system: a recently acquired tract maintenance equipment, a prototype unit of an old coach that was fully refurbished with a new body manufactured in the Philippines, and a Korean manufactured Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) train which consist of three cars, namely, two Driving Motor Railcar (DMR) with driver’s cabin an one intermediate Trailer Railcar (ITR) without driver’s cabin.

The new trains will now serve the commuting public bound to and from Tutuban and Alabang PNR stations.

In the early 2000s, the Philippine government underscored the need to rehabilitate the Northrail and Southrail lines, both aimed at increasing tourism and providing the public with an efficient and speedier form of transportation within the island of Luzon.

Construction has already begun on the rehabilitation of Northrail and Southrail and creating Northrail-Southrail linkage (which previously did not exist). Both China and Korea are involved with these projects.

The North and South rail projects will be upgraded from the present-day single track to a dual-track system, (separate tracks for north and south bound trains to allow for simultaneous operation) and will be capable of speeds from approximately 80 to 130 kph. (PND)

This is definitely a good news

[baludoy]

nice

pero di pa siya tuloy-tuloy ng caloocan ba?