25 June, 1875
TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY:
King Alfonso’s sent a royal decree which required Inspector of Public Works of the Philippine Islands to submit a railway system plan for Luzon.
Five months after royal decree was issued, the public works inspector of the islands, Don Eduardo Lopez Navarro, submitted his plan. It was titled, Memoria Sobre el Plan General de Ferrocarriles en la Isla de Luzón, and was promptly approved. On June 1, 1887, a concession for the construction of a railway line from Manila to Dagupan was granted to Don Edmundo Sykes of the Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan.
(Ref: pnr.gov.ph; Photo from Rafael Minuesa)