| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 七堵 | ||||||||||||||
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| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | 2-1 Dongxin St Qidu District,Keelung Taiwan | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 25°05′35″N121°42′50″E / 25.0931°N 121.7140°E /25.0931; 121.7140 | ||||||||||||||
| System | TRA railway station | ||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 6.0 km toKeelung[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Local bus | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Structure type | Ground level | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | A03 (statistical) | ||||||||||||||
| Classification | First class (Chinese:一等)[2] | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 20 October 1891 (1891-10-20)[3][4] | ||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 25 October 2013 (2013-10-25)[5] | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 12,489daily (2024)[6] | |||||||||||||||
| Services | |||||||||||||||
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Qidu (Chinese:七堵;pinyin:Qīdǔ;Wade–Giles:C'hi¹tu³) is a railway station inKeelung, Taiwan served by theTaiwan Railways Administration.
The station was opened in 1891, duringQing rule. It serves the area ofQidu. InJapanese rule, the station name was pronounced asShichito in Japanese, then romanisation asChitu after WWII until 2003. It is now the origin station for most of the southbound trains on theWest Coast line, after the new station was completed in 2007.