Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/08/30
By: Wang Shwu-fen, Tung Chun-chih, Chen Wei-ting and Kay Liu

The Taiwan Railways Administration has made its final overnight run between northern and southern Taiwan on its western line, bringing an end to the seven-hour train ride that lasted 36 years.

The southbound Chu Kuang Express service 531 from Qidu in Keelung to Kaohsiung departed at 10:56 p.m. on Aug. 28 and arrived at 6 a.m. the next day, while the northbound service 532 left the southern port city at 11:30 p.m. the same night and reached its destination at 6:30 a.m.

While several passengers headed on their way after the train arrived in Kaohsiung on Monday morning, some, such as high school students Liu Yi-ting (劉亦廷) and Tsai Cheng-yen (蔡承諺), stayed behind to record the final moments of the end of an era.

Liu and Tsai spent the whole night on the train taking photos and shooting video to capture memories throughout the ride and record the sounds.     [FULL  STORY]