Classic route
PNR Commuter
Calamba → Lucena · Philippines
PNR Commuter in pictures
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- Distance
- 90 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 33 min
- Average speed
- 35 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Philippine National Railways
- Train
- Kiha 59 DMU
- Countries
- Philippines
- In service since
- 1916
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A surviving stretch of the century-old Manila–Legazpi main line, its ex-Japanese railcars trundling through Quezon’s coconut country.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8343623 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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