Gangshan station
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22°47′33″N 120°18′01″E / 22.792433°N 120.300281°E
Gangshan 岡山  | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gangshan railway Station Gangshan metro station | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Gangshan, Kaohsiung Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 378.4 km from Keelung | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Bus stop | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Surface | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Classification | 一等站 (Taiwan Railway level) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | TRA: 15 December 1900 (original) 29 October 1993 (present building) KMRT: 30 June 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 4,850 daily (2023) [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 岡山車站 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 冈山车站 | ||||||||||
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Gangshan (Chinese: 岡山車站; pinyin: Gāngshān Chēzhàn) is a railway station and metro station on the Taiwan Railway West Coast line and Kaohsiung Metro Red line located in Gangshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.[2]
History
[edit]The station was opened on 15 December 1900 as Agongdian Station (阿公店停車場), and was renamed as Okayama Station (岡山駅) in 1920. In November 1923, a second, wooden station building was opened to replace the original 1900 station. The current station building was opened on 29 October 1993, and the 1923 wooden station building burned down on 3 November 1995. Contactless smartcard fare gates were installed at this station on 30 September 2013.
The Kaohsiung Metro Red line extension which directly link to train station has been operated in 30 June 2024.[3]
Around the station
[edit]- Gangshan Water Tower
- Kaohsiung Museum of Shadow Puppet
- Provincial Highway 1
- Republic of China Air Force Academy
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Taiwan Railway Corporation (June 2024). "表6 各站客貨運起訖量 Table 6 Volume of Passenger & Freight Traffic". 中華民國112年臺灣鐵路統計年報 Statistical report of Taiwan Railways -2023- (Report) (in Chinese (Taiwan) and English). Taiwan Railway Corporation. pp. 20–31. Archived from the original on 2024-05-22. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
- ^ "岡山火車站地圖".
- ^ "MRT expansion - Taipei Times". July 2024.
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