For Bicolanos, the reawakening of the once-silent tracks means so much more than an additional means of travel between the capital and their hometowns. NAGA CITY, Philippines – The Bicol Express is ...

It was the summer of 1964 and I had just completed my third year of elementary education. My parents bundled us up – the entire caboodle of six kids with me as the eldest – and two aunts who served as ...

As for the name, the new dish was christened such when a train happened to chug by from the Paco Railway Station that was nearby. The train's name? "Bicol Express." Most of the Bicol Express dishes ...

Five years after a supertyphoon derailed its operations, the famous train line that has inspired both cool nostalgia and a fiery dish of meat and chili is back on track. The Bicol Express of the ...

MANILA, Philippines — A plan to revive the Bicol Express is still uncertain as China, the supposed financier of the project, is yet to decide whether it will lend P142 billion to the Philippines. This ...

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines – The Bicol Regional Development Council (RDC) seeks a national railways summit possibly in June this year to explore prospects for modernizing the “Bicol Express†and ...

The Bicol Express, a passenger train service that plies the Manila-Bicol route, remains suspended as of October 2019 Claim: The website netizensalert.sk claimed in the headline of its article dated ...

The storied “Bicol Express” train has returned to the land of Mayon Volcano, five years after a supertyphoon battered the Bicol region and damaged vital bridges and stretches of railroad leading to ...