Taiwan News
Date: 2016-10-17
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
The Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) announced on Monday that beginning Oct. 20 it will adopt a new annual train schedule, with adjustments including addition of new trains and curtailing of travel distance or suspension of existing trains.
According to a train schedule change plan the TRA announced in September, the TRA will add two daily Shulin-Taitung and Nangang-Chaozhou express trains on weekends while enforcing curtailing of the travel distance or suspension of trains with low seat occupancy rates during the off-hours, affecting a total of 86 trains.
According to the TRA, the two additional Shulin-Taitung Tze-Chiang Express trains, Train Codes 418 and 443, run from Friday to Sunday, and the run time for the trip is about four hours, while the two new Nangang-Chaozhou Tze-Chiang Express trains, Train Codes 133 and 110, also operate from Friday to Sunday. [FULL STORY]