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Taiwan Railway (TR) [II] is a state-owned conventional railway in Taiwan. It is operated by the Taiwan Railway Corporation under the supervision of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, responsible for managing, maintaining, and running conventional passenger and freight railway services on 1,097 km (682 mi) of track in Taiwan. [1]
Rail transport in Taiwan consists of 2,025 kilometres (1,258 mi) (as of 2015) of railway networks. [2] Though no longer as dominant as it once was, rail transport is an extremely important form of transportation in Taiwan due to high population density, especially along the densely populated western corridor.
Taipei to Pingtung: Southbound shortest trip takes 3 hours 57 minutes (Train# 111); Northbound shortest trip is 3 hours 56 minutes (Train# 136) Taipei to Hualien: Southbound shortest trip takes 2 hours exactly (Train# 402, 408, 426, 436, 438); Northbound shortest trip is 2 hours exactly (Train# 417, 441)
Their main Taichung station is at Gancheng, but they pick up and drop off passengers at locations including the Taichung Train Station, Chungshan Medical University, Chaoma and Shuinan. Aloha Bus Company – Aloha maintains two station in Taichung City, Gancheng and Chaoma. Service is offered to Taipei and Kaohsiung. Transportation to other ...
The 12 cars of a 700T train are grouped in three traction units with three power cars and one trailer each, [46] providing 10.26 MW (13,760 hp) of power; [50] both end cars are trailers to avoid slip on powered bogies. [46] The train is 304 m (997 ft 5 in) long and has a mass of 503 t (554 short tons) when empty. [50]
Taichung HSR (Chinese: 台中高鐵站; pinyin: Táizhōng Gāotiě Zhàn) is a railway and metro station in Wuri District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is served by Taiwan High Speed Rail and the Green line of the Taichung MRT .
The train could make the journey in just 90 minutes, compared to four hours by car. (A flight between the two cities takes about an hour.) But the high-speed rail has been bogged down by financing ...
The Taroko Express (Chinese: 太魯閣號; pinyin: Tàilǔgé Hào) is an express train service of Taiwan Railway, and is part of Tze-Chiang Limited Express. The name of the service comes from the 19-kilometre (12-mile) long Taroko Gorge, which is one of Taiwan's most popular tourist spots, and the Truku people. It began commercial operations ...