Heavy rain damage holds off Alishan Forest Railway service

Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-08
By: Maggie Huang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

Serious rockslides brought by heavy rain have caused damage at 44 km on the Alishan forest railway, leading to the damage of the tunnel and railway.

The Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) announced that the damaged sections of the mountain railway will undergo repair on Thursday and Friday, thus the line from Chiayi to the Fenchihu station will be suspended on Sep 8th and 9th.

Ticket refund policies are as follows:

1. Ticket holder whose schedule was affected due to the suspending could get a full price refund without handling fee in one year at the TRA or the forest railway ticket counter with the unused ticket.

2. Holders of paid online booking ticket which meets the refund requirements should fetch the ticket and get a full price refunded within one year.     [FULL  STORY]