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- The Manila Railroad Company (MRR) was a Filipino state-owned enterprise responsible for the management and operation of rail transport in the island of Luzon. It was originally established by an Englishman named Edmund Sykes as the private Manila Railway Co., Ltd. on June 1, 1887. British engineer Horace L. Higgins was then assigned at the helm in Manila as its first general manager. On July 7, 1906, a separate private entity named the Manila Railroad Company of New Jersey was established. The two companies continued to own the Luzon railroad network until February 4, 1916 when the Insular Government acquired both companies and absorbed them into the new Manila Railroad. The MRR was the largest single railroad operator in the Philippines of its time. It owned 1,140 kilometers (710 mi) of track during its peak in the late 1930s, approximately one-fifth of all the rail network in the country by 1939. It also had various types of rolling stock from the early tank locomotives and boxcars of the 1890s to the diesel-electric GE Universal Series and Japanese-built steel-bodied railcars of the 1950s. Asides from rail transport, the railroad also invested in buses, the water transportation industry and the hospitality industry. The Manila Railroad was then reorganized into the Philippine National Railways on June 20, 1964. (en)
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- 1892-11-24 (xsd:date)
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- 1887-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
- 1892-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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- 1887-06-01 (xsd:date)
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- Old Tutuban station in 2008 after its conversion to a shopping mall. (en)
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- Edmund Hett Sykes (en)
- Horace L. Higgins (en)
- José B. Paez (en)
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- Manila Railroad's second and final monogram. (en)
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- Manila Railroad Company (en)
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- Ferrocarril de Manila a Dagupan (en)
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- The Manila Railroad Company (MRR) was a Filipino state-owned enterprise responsible for the management and operation of rail transport in the island of Luzon. It was originally established by an Englishman named Edmund Sykes as the private Manila Railway Co., Ltd. on June 1, 1887. British engineer Horace L. Higgins was then assigned at the helm in Manila as its first general manager. On July 7, 1906, a separate private entity named the Manila Railroad Company of New Jersey was established. The two companies continued to own the Luzon railroad network until February 4, 1916 when the Insular Government acquired both companies and absorbed them into the new Manila Railroad. (en)
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- Manila Railroad Company (en)
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- Manila Railroad Company (en)
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