Tramo Street is a major local road in

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. It runs north-south from Ocampo Street in the border with

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in Maricaban. It is interrupted by

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(EDSA) and the MRT Line 3 line which divides the road into two sections, the southern section running from EDSA to Andrews Avenue having been renamed to Aurora Boulevard. The street's name is

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for ''branch'' or ''line'', referring to the Cavite Line which was a branch of the Manila tranvía (''tramo del tranvía'').

History

Tramo Street follows the abandoned line (the Cavite Line) of the Manila Railroad Company (now Philippine National Railways) that stretched from

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all the way to

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.Cavite Line
published by Railways and Industrial Heritage Society of the Philippines, Inc.; accessed 2013-11-01. The Cavite Line was built in 1908 and train services ceased in 1936. Subsequent development of

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led to the closure of a big segment of the old line in Pasay and Parañaque. The line resumes in La Huerta where it remains named as Tramo Road running all the way to C-5 Extension in

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and continues as Fruto Santos Avenue. Streets of the same, also occupying the former right-of-way of the old railroad line, are found in Bacoor,

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, and Naic in

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