Buendia station (PNR)
Gil Puyat Station | ||||||||||||||||
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 Exterior of Gil Puyat station | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Gil Puyat Avenue Pio del Pilar, Makati City | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Philippine National Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | █ PNR Commuter Express █ PNR Southrail | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At grade | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Rebuilt | 2007 | |||||||||||||||
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Gil Puyat railway station is a station on the South Main Line ("Southrail") of the Philippine National Railways. Like all PNR Southrail stations, this station is at grade. The station is located at the corner of Gil Puyat Avenue and the South Luzon Expressway in Makati City, deriving its name from the former. The avenue in turn named after Gil Puyat, an esteemed senator.
Gil Puyat station is the ninth station from Tutuban and is one of three stations serving Makati City, the other two being Pasay Road and Magallanes. It is near the Cash and Carry Mall in Barangay Palanan and a Makro on the other side of the South Luzon Expressway in Barangay San Isidro. Further away from the station are Makati Cinema Square, Exportbank Plaza and the San Antonio, Pio Del Pilar and San Isidro village national high schools. A cluster of Cityland condominiums is also located right behind the station.
Transportation links
Gil Puyat station is accessible by jeepneys and buses plying the Taft Avenue and South Luzon Expressway routes. A terminal for San Antonio cycle rickshaws is located across the station on the other side of Gil Puyat Avenue, while Pio del Pilar cycle rickshaws also drop commuters off at the station.
The station is located roughly midway between Buendia MRT Station at the intersection with Epifanio de los Santos Avenue and Gil Puyat LRT Station at the intersection with Taft Avenue.