Kaohsiung 高雄  | |||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese | 高雄 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | 318 Jianguo 2nd Rd Sanmin District,Kaohsiung[1] Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°38′23″N120°18′08″E / 22.6396°N 120.3021°E /22.6396; 120.3021[1] | ||||||||||||||||
| System | TRA railway station | ||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 399.8 km toKeelung viaTaichung[2] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||
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| Classification | Special class (Chinese:特等)[4] | ||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 22 June 1941; 84 years ago (1941-06-22) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 14 October 2018; 7 years ago (2018-10-14) | ||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 29 June 1979; 46 years ago (1979-06-29)[5] | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1900-11-29 | Predecessor station opened[6][7] | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002-03-27 | Rebuilt | ||||||||||||||||
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| 2017 | 14.196 million per year[3]  2.19% | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | 8 out of 228 | ||||||||||||||||
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Kaohsiung Main Station R11 高雄車站  | |||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 高雄車站 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 高雄车站 | ||||||||||
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| Location | B3F 320 Jianguo 2nd Rd Sanmin District,Kaohsiung Taiwan | ||||||||||
| System | Kaohsiung metro station | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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| Station code | R11 | ||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 7 April 2008; 17 years ago (2008-04-07)[8] | ||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 5 September 2018; 7 years ago (2018-09-05) | ||||||||||
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| 2017 | 10.772 million per year[9] | ||||||||||
| Rank | 2 out of 37 | ||||||||||
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Kaohsiung Main Station (Chinese:高雄車站;pinyin:Gāoxióng chēzhàn) is a railway and metro station inSanmin District,Kaohsiung,Taiwan served by theTaiwan Railways andKaohsiung Rapid Transit. It is one of fourspecial class stations, the highest class with the most services.
The main railway station servingKaohsiung, formerly known as Takau (Chinese:打狗) andTakao (高雄), was located atHamasen. It opened in 1900 and served trains to Tainan. TheFengshan (thenHōzan (Japanese:鳳山)) 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 designed to accommodate the proposed extension ofTaiwan High Speed Rail. However, on 27 September 2019, thePingtung extension was confirmed to bypass central Kaohsiung.[10] In December 2024 the plan was changed again so the extension will serve Kaohsiung main station.[11]
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The TRA portion is a three-level underground railway station with two island platforms.[12][13] The 1941 station building is planned to be moved back to the original position for display.
The TRA railway in Kaohsiung also serves as acommuter rail. Nevertheless, the railway in Kaohsiung only has the capacity ofdouble-track, making it difficult to allow many[quantify] suchshuttle trains asEMU800 for domestic transportation to run through at once.[14]
Therapid transit station is a two-level, underground station with one entrance.[15] It is located at Jianguo 2nd Road. On 5 September 2018, it was relocated 100 metres north, making it the first metro station in Taiwan to be relocated. The new platforms are lengthened to allow for six carriages up from three. The former concourse and platforms are closed and reserved for emergency use.
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There was originally a plan for the HSR tracks to be constructed underground fromZuoying HSR station to this station together with the planning of theTRA tracks being moved underground. However, due to the fact that the construction of the HSR extension would be at a relatively high cost, it was decided to only begin moving the TRA in Kaohsiung underground, and the HSR would terminate at Zuoying. Even though no space was reserved for the HSR during construction of the TRA underground project, space has still been reserved at Kaohsiung Main Station to set up HSR platforms.
A team fromNSYSU examined air quality in Kaohsiung main station on early October 2019 and found that thePM2.5 was 17 times higher than that of standard, putting passengers and workers at risk of gettinglung disease.[16] Trains equipped withdiesel engine that run throughSouth-Link Line, the only single-track and non-electrified railway in Taiwan, were to blame.[16]
