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The South Main Line will be reconstructed under the PNR South railways program that is part of the new Luzon Rail System (PNR Luzon). PNR Luzon is the proposed network of rail lines to be built on the island of Luzon. Two new lines that will use the South Main Line's right of way will be constructed. [60]
The Philippine National Railways used to provide passenger services in two directions from the capital, thus serving various towns and cities north and south of Manila. This list contains stations of both the North Main Line and South Main Line, and the various spur lines from both lines, as well as stations within Metro Manila.
PNR's intercity operations on its two main lines, the North Main Line and South Main Line, both located in Luzon, have been indefinitely suspended since 2014. The South Main Line then served as the primary intercity service after the permanent closure of the northern line in 1991.
The South Main Line was first proposed in 1875 as part of the plan for the Luzon railway network. [9] The line was first opened as the Main Line South in 1916 and its first named service was the Lucena Express to Lucena, Quezon. [10] [11] The Bicol Express opened three years later in 1919. [12]
The PNR Northeast Commuter Line or Cabanatuan–Makati line is a proposed reconstruction of the Balagtas–Cabanatuan branch of the North Main Line. It will branch off the northern half of the North–South Commuter Railway at Balagtas station in Bulacan .
The PNR Metro Commuter Line was a commuter rail line operated by the Philippine National Railways.It was first inaugurated as the Metro Manila Commuter Service in 1970, and originally served the North Main Line and the South Main Lines, as well as the defunct Carmona and Guadalupe branch lines.
Naga was opened on April 1, 1920, as one of the stations along the Legazpi Division line of the Manila Railroad Company. By 1938, the Legazpi Division was merged into the Main Line South. During the PNR era, Naga became the terminus of the Peñafrancia Express that was inaugurated in 1981. The service ended in 2004.
It then became an intermediate station when the South Main Line was extended to the south towards Tiaong, Tayabas (now Quezon) in July 1912. A bypass line to College station was completed on August 20, 1923. [1] Currently, San Pablo station is serviced twice a day by the South Main Line for the Lucena–Calamba inter-city rail line. [2]