Paco station
Paco Station | |||||||||||
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 Platform area of Paco station. | |||||||||||
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| Location | Quirino Avenue cor. Pedro Gil St. Paco, Manila | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Philippine National Railways | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | █ PNR Southrail | ||||||||||
| Platforms | Side platforms | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | PC | ||||||||||
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| Rebuilt | 2009 | ||||||||||
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Paco station is a station on the Southrail line of the Philippine National Railways. It serves Paco in Manila, Metro Manila. This is also the last station beside Quirino Avenue before turning left beside Pres. Sergio Osmeña Highway (formerly South Superhighway).
It was originally built across Plaza Dilao in 1900s, which was during the American colonial period. The old station, however, was partly demolished in 1996 by a developer hat had begun constructing a shopping mall next to it.[1] The demolition did not complete as the construction of the shopping mall was cancelled and it would be marked as a historical landmark. The old station was replaced with a new station at the corner of Quirino Avenue and Pedro Gil Street in 2009.
The next stop from this station would be San Andres station, a new station, in San Andres Bukid in Manila and the previous stop is Pandacan located in Pandacan in Manila. There are also LRT-1 stations that exist not very far from the station, which are Pedro Gil station and Quirino Avenue station. It will require a commute from this station to get to those LRT stations.
Nearby landmarks
The station is near Plaza Dilao, Paco Market, San Fernando de Dilao Church, Paco Catholic School and Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia.
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