Beitou metro station

The Taipei Metro Beitou station (formerly transliterated as Peitou Station until 2003) is a station on the Tamsui–Xinyi line and Xinbeitou branch line), located in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. The location of station can be traced back the same name station of the now-defunct TRA Tamsui line.

Beitou 北投
Beitou station
General information
Location	No. 1, Guangming Rd. Beitou, Taipei Taiwan
Operated by	Taipei Metro
Line(s)	Tamsui–Xinyi line Xinbeitou branch line
Platforms	4
Connections	Bus stop
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Other information
Station code	R22
History
Opened	28 March 1997
Passengers
37,515 daily (December 2020)[1]
Rank	46 out of 109
Services
Preceding station Taipei Metro Following station Fuxinggang towards Tamsui Tamsui–Xinyi line Qiyan towards Xiangshan or Daan Terminus Xinbeitou Terminus Xinbeitou branch line Terminus

Beitou metro station
Chinese name
Chinese	北投
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Běitóu Bopomofo ㄅㄟˇ ㄊㄡˊ Wade–Giles Pei3-t'ou2 Hakka Pha̍k-fa-sṳ Pet-thèu Southern Min Tâi-lô Pak-tâu
Japanese name
Kanji	北投駅
Kana	ほくとうえき
Transcriptions Romanization Hokutō Eki

Station overview

Beitou station platform level

A Xinbeitou Branch Line train approaches on Platform 4.

The two-level, elevated station structure with one island platform and two side platforms. The washrooms are inside the entrance area.^[2] There are several amenities around the station. This include Beitou Presbyterian Church and Beitou Market.

Just north of the station, there are crossovers between the Tamsui–Xinyi line and the Xinbeitou branch line, and between the tracks of each individual line, in both directions. Also to the north, the two Tamsui Line tracks cross over each other not at grade.

South of the station, the four tracks merge into two and cross over each other at a flying junction, and there are crossovers to allow trains from Daan to terminate here.

History

The TRA station at Beitou was opened on 25 October 1901 as "Hokutō Station" (Japanese: 北投停車場), and another railway line, Shin-hokutō Railway Line was opened on 1 April 1916. On 15 July 1988; the service was discontinued in order to make way for the opening of the segment from Tamsui to Zhongshan for Taipei Metro on 28 March 1997.

From 1999 up to 2012, trains from Nanshijiao terminated at Beitou Station while construction work was conducted on the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line. From 2012 to 2013, trains from Taipower Building terminated here while the Tamsui-Xinyi Line was still under construction.

Station layout

2F	Side platform, doors will open on the left
	Platform 4	← Xinbeitou branch line toward Xinbeitou (R22A Terminus )
	Platform 3	→ Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Daan (R21 Qiyan) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
Platform 2	→ Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Xiangshan (R21 Qiyan) →
Platform 1	← Tamsui–Xinyi line toward Tamsui (R23 Fuxinggang)
Side platform, doors will open on the left
Street Level	Concourse	Entrance/Exit, lobby, information desk, automatic ticket dispensing machines, one-way faregates Restrooms

Around the station

• Lady Zhou's Memorial Gate

First and Last Train Timing

The first and last train timing at Beitou station ^[3] is as follows:

Destination	First Train		Last Train
	Mon − Fri	Sat − Sun and P.H.	Daily
Tamsui–Xinyi line
R28 Tamsui	06:03	06:03	01:00
R02 Xiangshan	06:00	06:00	00:16
Xinbeitou branch line
R22A Xinbeitou	06:00	06:00	00:10

References

1. "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations". Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Co., Ltd. 2021-01-15.
2. "Beitou station information map" (PDF). Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-07.
3. "Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation - Metro Service First & Last Trains". Retrieved 2019-10-25.

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