The

Taipei Metro Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), branded as Metro Taipei, is a rapid transit system serving the areas of Taipei and New Taipei City, New Taipei in Taiwan, operated by the State-owned enterprise, government-owned Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation ...

Beitou station (formerly transliterated as Peitou Station until 2003) is a station on the

Tamsui–Xinyi line Tamsui District (Hokkien POJ: ''Tām-chúi''; Hokkien Tâi-lô: ''Tām-tsuí''; Mandarin Pinyin: ''Dànshuǐ'') is a seaside district in New Taipei, Taiwan. It is named after the Tamsui River; the name means "fresh water". The town is popul ...

and

Xinbeitou branch line The Taipei Metro Xinbeitou branch line (formerly transliterated as Hsin Peitou branch line until 2003) is an elevated, high-capacity branch line of the Tamsui–Xinyi line. It first opened for service on 28 March 1997. The line is long and consi ...

), located in

Beitou District Beitou District is the northernmost of the twelve districts of Taipei City, Taiwan. The historical spelling of the district is Peitou. The name originates from the Ketagalan word ''Kipatauw'', meaning witch. Beitou is the most mountainous and ...

Taipei Taipei (), officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about southwest of the n ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. The location of station can be traced back the same name station of the now-defunct TRA Tamsui line.

Station overview

Xinbeitou Branch Line Train in Beitou Station 4th Platform

The two-level, elevated station structure with one

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

and two

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms ...

s. The washrooms are inside the entrance area. There are several amenities around the station. This include Beitou Presbyterian Church and Beitou Market. Just north of the station, there are crossovers between the

and the

, and between the tracks of each individual line, in both directions. Also to the north, the two Tamsui Line tracks cross over each other not at grade. South of the station, the four tracks merge into two and cross over each other at a

flying junction A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "gr ...

, and there are crossovers to allow trains from Daan to terminate here.

History

The TRA station at Beitou was opened on 25 October 1901 as , and another railway line, Shin-hokutō Railway Line was opened on 1 April 1916. On 15 July 1988; the service was discontinued in order to make way for the opening of the segment from Tamsui to Zhongshan for Taipei Metro on 28 March 1997. From 1999 up to 2012, trains from Nanshijiao terminated at Beitou Station while construction work was conducted on the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line.

Station layout

Around the station

Lady Zhou's Memorial Gate The Lady Zhou's Memorial Gate () is a paifang in Beitou District, Taipei, Taiwan. Name The gate is named after Lady Zhou, a local lady who was born in 1788 and died in 1846. She was widowed a very young age and raised her children as a single m ...

First and Last Train Timing

The first and last train timing at Beitou station is as follows:

References

{{Coord, 25.131901, 121.498597, display=t, type:railwaystation Tamsui–Xinyi line stations Railway stations opened in 1901 Railway stations opened in 1997