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Gushan Railway Station (Taiwan)
Gushan () is a railway and light rail station in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan served by Taiwan Railways and the Circular Line of the Kaohsiung rapid transit system. History On October 1, 1929, Asano Cement Kabushiki Kaisha built Tamachi Station as a freight station to transport goods for its nearby concrete plant (later known as Taiwan Cement Kaohsiung Plant). The station was built on the Taiwan Trunk line, northeast from the terminal station of Takao Station. On June 20, 1941, Takao (Kaohsiung) Station was relocated to Sanmin District, and the original location was renamed as Kaohsiung Port Station. To accommodate the relocation, a new junction was built south of Tamachi Station for a new track connecting Sankuaicuo station and the new terminal station for Takao (Kaohsiung) Station. On April 15, 1950, Tamachi Station was renamed as Gushan Station. On November 9, 2008, passenger services from the station were discontinued. The station was since only serving fre ...
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Taiwan Railways Administration
Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) was a governmental agency in Taiwan which operated Taiwan Railway from 1948 to 2023. It managed, maintained, and operated conventional passenger and freight Rail transport, railway services on of track. Passenger traffic in 2018 was 231,267,955. On 1 January 2024, Taiwan Railway Administration became a state-owned corporation, Taiwan Railway Corporation. The agency's headquarters was at Taipei Main Station in Zhongzheng District, Taipei at the time of dissolution, the site which became the headquarter of the new company. History The railway between Keelung and Hsinchu was completed during the Taiwan under Qing rule, Qing era in 1893. In 1895, the Qing dynasty, Qing Empire ceded Formosa (Taiwan) to the Empire of Japan after the First Sino-Japanese War. The line was about in length but in a poor condition when the Japanese arrived. The railway was rebuilt and expanded under the of the Government-General of Taiwan during Taiwan under Jap ...
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Takao Railway Museum
The Takao Railway Museum () is a museum in Gushan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The museum was formerly the Kaohsiung Harbor Station, built during the Japanese period. Then called the , the station was the first railway station in Kaohsiung. In 2003, the station building was designated a historical building by the Kaohsiung City Government. On 9 November 2008, the last train departed from the station at 5.30 p.m. After the station closure, the Railway Culture Society managed the station as the Takao Railway Museum. The museum is currently part of the Kaohsiung Museum of History The Kaohsiung Museum of History () is a museum located in Yancheng District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''For .... Architecture The museum building was built in a classic Japanese style with a Chinese hip style roof. Area in front of the station was ...
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Transport Infrastructure Completed In 2018
Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipelines, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fuel docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for the interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack animals. Vehicles may includ ...
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Railway Stations Served By Taiwan Railways Administration
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19 ...
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2018 Establishments In Taiwan
Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number) * One of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2005 Canadian dramatic feature film * 18 (British Board of Film Classification), a film rating in the United Kingdom, also used in Ireland by the Irish Film Classification Office * 18 (''Dragon Ball''), a character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * "Eighteen", a 2006 episode of the animated television series ''12 oz. Mouse'' Science * Argon, a noble gas in the periodic table * 18 Melpomene, an asteroid in the asteroid belt Music Albums * ''18'' (Moby album), 2002 * ''18'' (Nana Kitade album), 2005 * '' 18...'', 2009 debut album by G.E.M. * ''18'' (Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp album), 2022 Songs * "18" (5 Seconds of Summer song), from their 2014 eponymous debut album * "18" (One Direction song), from their 2014 studio album ''Four'' ...
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List Of Railway Stations In Taiwan
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but lists are frequently written down on paper, or maintained electronically. Lists are "most frequently a tool", and "one does not ''read'' but only ''uses'' a list: one looks up the relevant information in it, but usually does not need to deal with it as a whole".Lucie Doležalová,The Potential and Limitations of Studying Lists, in Lucie Doležalová, ed., ''The Charm of a List: From the Sumerians to Computerised Data Processing'' (2009). Purpose It has been observed that, with a few exceptions, "the scholarship on lists remains fragmented". David Wallechinsky, a co-author of '' The Book of Lists'', described the attraction of lists as being "because we live in an era of overstimulation, especially in terms of information, and lists help us ...
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Former Tangrong Brick Kiln
The Former Tangrong Brick Kiln () is a former brick manufacturing factory in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History Empire of Japan The building was originally a tile factory established in 1899 by the Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese government. Latest technology was introduced to this kiln and after around two decades, the brick production in this factory accounted for around 70% of bricks in Taiwan. Demand for bricks grew exponentially as the economy prospered, thus the government integrated all existing kilns in Taiwan in 1913 to form the . Six more kilns capable of high yield bricks were added and the bricks produced here was branded the Taiwan Renga. Republic of China After the Retrocession Day, handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Taiwan Renga turned into a state-owned factory and was sold to a private company Tangrong Ironworks. However, after the company financial crisis in 1957, the Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan), Ministry o ...
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Zhongdu Wetlands Park
Zhongdu Wetlands Park () is a wetland in Zhongdu Region, Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The area where the park stands today used to be part of the Zhongdu Industrial Area during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the area became the center of plywood factories. After many of the factories closed down in the 1980s because of moving out from Taiwan, the area was left idle and not maintained, including all of the wood storage ditches. It became the breeding ground for dengue fever and crime. The Kaohsiung City Government then made a decision to revitalize the area by allocating NT$3 billion of budget. The construction of the park marked the beginning of improvement in the overall value of the region in 2009. Old buildings were demolished, the advantages were relocated and a wetland was established. The aim was to change the appearance of Zhongdu region and solve the environmental problem troubling the ...
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Kaohsiung Main Station
Kaohsiung Main Station () is a railway and metro station in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan served by the Taiwan Railways and Kaohsiung Rapid Transit. It is one of four ''special class'' stations, the highest class with the most services. It is currently undergoing reconstruction, scheduled to be complete in 2024. History The main railway station serving Kaohsiung, formerly known as Takau () and , was located at Hamasen. It opened in 1900 and served trains to Tainan. The Fengshan (then ) line opened in 1907. The station at the current site was built between 1933 and 1941. Towards the end of the century, it was decided that the railway was to be moved underground within Kaohsiung. A temporary station building was used between 2002 and 2018, when the underground station was partially opened. A temporary metro station was also used between 2008 and 2018. Construction on the remaining segments of the project is scheduled to be complete in 2024. The rebuilt station was desig ...
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Sankuaicuo Railway Station
Sankuaicuo () is a railway station in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The southern Taiwan railway project began near the beginning of Japanese rule in 1908. Sankuaicuo, the first station on the eastern spur of what is now the , where a opened on 1 February of the same year. It was subsequently replaced by a then-permanent station building in 1923. During that time, the railway station contributed greatly to the local industry but became a with the opening of the new (''Takao'') station in June 1941. Sankuaicuo was closed to passengers in 1962 due to falling passenger numbers, however goods handling continued at the station until it was finally closed on 26 September 1986. The permanent way between Sankuaicuo and Kaohsiung Port was removed between July 1990 and November 1995. On 9 September 2004, the Kaohsiung City Government designated the old Sankuaicuo station building as a historical site. A new station was built and opened on 14 October 2018 as part of the u ...
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Sanmin District
Sanmin District () is a District (Taiwan), district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History During the Ming dynasty, the Wang, Tsai, and Cheng families built houses in the area to farm the land. The area was thus named ''Sankuaicu'' (). After the Retrocession Day, handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China, the area was renamed Sanmin to set a good example. Geography The current population of Sanmin District is 331,875 people, consisting of 158,939 males and 172,936 females. Administrative divisions As of August 2006, Sanmin District has 87 villages; which are divided into 1,749 neighborhoods; which are further sub-divided into 125,561 households. Villages in the district are Dingjin, Dingcheng, Dingjiang, Dingli, Dingxi, Dingzhong, Dingtai, Benguan, Benhe, Benwen, Benwu, Benyuan, Benan, Benshang, Benyang, Baoshi, Baode, Baotai, Baoxing, Baozhong, Baohua, Baoguo, Baomin, Baoqing, Baoye, Baocheng, Baoan, Baolong, Baozhu, Baoyu, Wanzi, Wanai, Wanzhong, Wanhua, Wansheng, Wanli ...
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