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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Department of Transportation Light Rail Manila Corporation | |||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | LRT Line 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 (2 side) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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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 Dr. Santos, and the nineteenth 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 northernmost station on Rizal Avenue as the line shifts to Rizal Avenue Extension northwest of Abad Santos station.