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Blumentritt
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| Location | Rizal Avenue, Santa Cruz and Tondo Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 14°37′21.82″N 120°58′58.4″E / 14.6227278°N 120.982889°E / 14.6227278; 120.982889 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Department of Transportation Light Rail Manila Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | LRT Line 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (2side) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections |  Blumentritt | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Elevated | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | BL | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 12, 1985; 39 years ago (1985-05-12) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Blumentritt station is an elevated Light Rail Transit (LRT) station located on the LRT Line 1 (LRT-1) system in Manila, Philippines. The station is situated above Rizal Avenue, particularly at its intersections with Old Antipolo Street and Blumentritt Road, from which the station's name is derived. The latter is named to honor Bohemian professor Ferdinand Blumentritt, one of José Rizal's closest associates and a sympathizer of the Propaganda Movement.
Blumentritt station serves as the seventh station for LRT-1 trains headed to Baclaran, and the fourteenth station for trains headed to Fernando Poe Jr. It is one of the six Line 1 stations serving Santa Cruz district, along with Abad Santos, Tayuman, Bambang, Doroteo Jose, and Carriedo.
It is the second-to last station on Rizal Avenue before the line shifts to Rizal Avenue Extension past Abad Santos station.
Blumentritt station is one of the locations where a bomb exploded in a train cab on December 30, 2000, during the Rizal Day bombings that caused 22 fatalities and injuries to around 100.[1]
APhilippine National Railways (PNR) station with the same name exists just a short walk from the station. Buses, jeepneys and taxis that ply Rizal Avenue and nearby routes stop at Blumentritt station, where there is a nearby transportation terminal. Numerous tricycles could also be found near the station, servicing quick transportation from people disembarking from the station and from the jeepneys.
