Japanese-maintained Manila railway fields record number of trains

One of Manila's main mass transit rail systems increased its number of operational trains to 22, transportation authorities said Tuesday, breaking previous records owing to the maintenance and repair work by two Japanese firms.Michael Capati, director for operations, said the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 is now fielding more trains while recording zero breakdowns and passenger offloads -- incidents that were common in recent years with the decades-old train system."This is the fruit of good maintenance of the train and rail rehabilitation," Capati said during a press conference in Manila, citi…READ FULL ARTICLE