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The Neiwan Line is a railway branch line in Taiwan run by the Taiwan Railway Administration

Taiwan Railway Administration

The Taiwan Railway Administration is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications of the Republic of China responsible for managing, maintaining, and running passenger and freight service on 1097 km of conventional railroad lines in Taiwan...

. It is located in Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County

Hsinchu County is a county in north-western Taiwan. The population of the county is mainly Hakka; there is a Taiwanese aboriginal minority in the southeastern part of the county. Zhubei is the capital of Hsinchu, where the government office and county office is located...

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History

The Neiwan Line was completed in 1950. Although this line is a branch line, its standards are comparable to those of a main line except that it is not electrified. Diesel powered Tze-Chiang trains have been used on this route on some special occasions. It became a popular tourist site in the early 2000s.

Liujia branch

The Liujia Line

Liujia Line

The Liujia Line is a branch line of the Taiwan Railway Administration Western Line in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It was built to link the Western Line to the Taiwan High Speed Rail Hsinchu Station, speeding up transit times between the two forms of rail service and, by extension, downtown Hsinchu...

, which connects TRA's Hsinchu station and THSRC

Taiwan High Speed Rail

Taiwan High Speed Rail is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately along the west coast of the Republic of China from the national capital of Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung...

's THSR station

THSR Hsinchu Station

THSR Hsinchu Station is an elevated station of Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Zhubei, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It opened for service in 2006. The THSR Hsinchu Station was designed by Taiwanese architect Kris Yao.-Overview:...

, branches off from the Neiwan Line.

Operations

All trains run between Hsinchu and Neiwan. The headway between each number of runs is about one hour. There has been one through-service between Neiwan and Taipei

Taipei

Taipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...

 on Saturdays and Sundays since 2004.

The Neiwan branch line closed temporarily between Hsinchu and Jhudong on 28 February 2007. This was to allow construction of the Liujia Line. The line was reopened on 11 November 2011.

Stations

• Hsinchu
  Hsinchu
  Hsinchu City is a city in northern Taiwan. Hsinchu is popularly nicknamed "The Windy City" for its windy climate.Hsinchu City is administered as a special municipality within Taiwan . The city is bordered by Hsinchu County to the north and east, Miaoli County to the south, and the Taiwan Strait...
  
  : Connections to the Western Line
• Expo Station
• Zhuke (Science Park) Station
• Jhujhong: Liujia Line
  Liujia Line
  The Liujia Line is a branch line of the Taiwan Railway Administration Western Line in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It was built to link the Western Line to the Taiwan High Speed Rail Hsinchu Station, speeding up transit times between the two forms of rail service and, by extension, downtown Hsinchu...
  
   connecting to THSR Hsinchu Station
  THSR Hsinchu Station
  THSR Hsinchu Station is an elevated station of Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Zhubei, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It opened for service in 2006. The THSR Hsinchu Station was designed by Taiwanese architect Kris Yao.-Overview:...
  
  
• Shangyuan
• Ronghua
• Jhudong
• Hengshan
  Hengshan, Hsinchu
  Hengshan is a town in Hsinchu County in northern Taiwan. It had an estimated population of 14,781 as of 2007....
  
  
• Jiouzantou
• Hesing
• Fuguei: former name: Nanhe
• Neiwan

External links

• Railway Reconstruction Bureau project page for the Liujia branch (in Chinese
  Chinese language
  The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
  
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