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Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation [a] Area served: Taiwan (main island only) Transit type: High-speed railway: Number of lines: 1: Number of stations: 12: Annual ridership: 81,882,961 (2023) 61.8%: Website: thsrc.com.tw: Operation; Began operation: January 5, 2007; 18 years ago () Operator(s) Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation: Character
Trainset number 206 of EMU200, at Banqiao station on the ground level, Western Line, Taiwan Railway Administration, 1989. In the mid-1980s, Taiwan experienced significant economic growth and increased living standards. As people became more affluent, the Tzu-chiang train was no longer considered a privilege of the elite.
This article provides a list of operational and under construction (or approved) high-speed rail networks, listed by country or region. While the International Union of Railways defines high-speed rail as public transport by rail at speeds of at least 200 km/h (124 mph) for upgraded tracks and 250 km/h (155 mph) or faster for new tracks, this article lists all the systems and lines that ...
The two Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways and Taiwan High Speed Rail, have several overlaps in station names. See below Taiwan High Speed Rail section for their relations in detail. There are five rapid transit systems in Taiwan: Taipei Metro, opened in March 1996, serves the core of Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area.
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.
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 station is adjacent to Xinwuri station of Taiwan Railway. [4]
The ambitious high-speed rail project has been bogged by financial issues since it was first announced in 2013. Malaysia’s plan to build a high-speed train to Singapore struggles to leave the ...
The Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) commenced operations on 5 January 2007, after some delays in 2006. The THSR connects Taipei City in the northeast of the island of Taiwan to Kaohsiung City in the southwest. The journey time is about 90 minutes compared to ~3 hours by conventional rail. 30 Shinkansen Class 700T sets are running on the 345 km ...