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List of railway and metro stations in Taiwan
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There are currently six operating railway systems in Taiwan:
Name | Chinese | Mandarin (Pinyin) | Taiwanese (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) | Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ) | Service type | Year opened | No. of stations |
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Taiwan Railways | 臺灣鐵路 | Táiwān Tiělù | Tâi-oân Thih-lō͘ | Thòi-vân Thiet-lu | Inter-city rail, Commuter rail | 1891 | 239 |
Alishan Forest Railway | 阿里山 林業鐵路 | Ālǐshān Línyè Tiělù | A-lí-san Lîm-gia̍p Thih-lō͘ | Â-lî-sân Lìm-ngia̍p Thiet-lu | Commuter rail | 1912 | 22 |
Taipei Metro | 臺北捷運 | Táiběi Jiéyùn | Tâi-pak Chia̍t-ūn | Thòi-pet Chia̍p-yun | Rapid transit | 1996 | 117 |
Taiwan High Speed Rail | 台灣高鐵 | Táiwān Gāotiě | Tâi-ôan Ko-thih | Thòi-vàn Kaû-thiet | Inter-city rail, High-speed rail | 2007 | 12 |
Kaohsiung Rapid Transit | 高雄捷運 | Gāoxióng Jiéyùn | Ko-hiông Chia̍t-ūn | Kô-hiùng Chhia̍p-yun | Rapid transit | 2008 | 52 |
Taoyuan Metro | 桃園捷運 | Táoyuán Jiéyùn | Thô-hn̂g Chia̍t-ūn | Thò-yèn Chhia̍p-yun | Rapid transit | 2017 | 21 |
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.
- Kaohsiung Metro, opened in March 2008, serves the core of Kaohsiung metropolitan area.
- Taoyuan Metro, opened in March 2017, connects the cores of Taipei and Taoyuan with Taoyuan International Airport.
- New Taipei Metro, opened in December 2018, serves the Danhai New Town and New Taipei
- Taichung Metro, opened in April 2021, serves the core of Taichung–Changhua metropolitan area.
The Alishan Forest Railway is currently administered by Forestry Bureau as a heritage railway for tourists in Alishan National Scenic Area.
- Taiwan Railways
- Taiwan High Speed Rail
- Kaohsiung Rapid Transit System
- Taipei Metro
Station names in Taiwan are in Wade–Giles for major stations and in Hanyu Pinyin for other minor stations. Exceptions exist in Kaohsiung Metro, which uses Tongyong Pinyin in general. Other romanization systems also exists in some cases for private property or traditional place names. The law of Taiwan also requires all notifications in public transportation systems including station names shall be made in Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, and Hakka.[1]