FULLY ELECTRIFIED: After the upgrade of the line along the southeastern coast, a loop around Taiwan would be possible in about nine hours, a DPP lawmaker said
Taipei Times
Date: Dec 18, 2020
By: Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
Electrified South Link Line services to start on Sunday
FULLY ELECTRIFIED: After the upgrade of the line along the southeastern coast, a loop around Taiwan would be possible in about nine hours, a DPP lawmaker said
By Shelley Shan / Staff reporter
A fully electrified South Link Line is to begin operations on Sunday, shortening the travel time between Kaohsiung and Hualien by 39 minutes.
The line along the southeastern coast and through the Huadong Valley (花東縱谷) is Taiwan’s only main railway line that is not fully electrified.
The government in 2013 began the project to electrify the line on two sections, between Chaojhou (潮州) and Fangliao (枋寮) railway stations in Pingtung County, and Fangliao and Taitung’s Jhiben (知本) stations.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Liu Chao-hao, left, and Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung stand on the platform of Taitung’s Jhiben Station yesterday.
Photo: CNA
The line along the southeastern coast and through the Huadong Valley (花東縱谷) is Taiwan’s only main railway line that is not fully electrified.
The government in 2013 began the project to electrify the line on two sections, between Chaojhou (潮州) and Fangliao (枋寮) railway stations in Pingtung County, and Fangliao and Taitung’s Jhiben (知本) stations.
The 25km section between Chaojhou and Fangliao has been in operation since December last year. [FULL STORY]