Houli () is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
on the
Taiwan Railways Administration
Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) is a railway operator in Taiwan. It is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, responsible for managing, maintaining, and running conventional passenger and freight railway services ...
Taichung line
The Taichung line (), also known as the Mountain line (), is a line of the Taiwan Railway Administration, which one of two parallel lines in Central Taiwan section offsetting to inland mountain area. It has a total length of 85.5 km, all of w ...
located in
Houli District
Houli District () is a rural district in northwestern Taichung City, Taiwan.
History
After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, Houli was organized as a rural township of Taichung County named Neipu Township. On ...
,
Taichung
Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Taiw ...
,
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 ...
.
History
The train station was opened on 15 May 1905. On 4 January 2018, a truck-mounted
crane collapsed on overhead power line at the station causing blackout and disrupting electricity supply and train services.
Around the station
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Chang Lien-cheng Saxophone Museum
The Chang Lien-cheng Saxophone Museum () is a saxophone museum and manufacturing company in Houli District, Taichung, Taiwan.
History
The museum is named after Chang Lien-cheng, a local resident who made the first saxophone in Taiwan on his ow ...
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See also
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List of railway stations in Taiwan
There are currently six operating railway systems in Taiwan:
The two Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways and Taiwan High Speed Rail, have several overlaps in station names. See below ''Taiwan High Speed Rail'' section for their relations in ...
References
1905 establishments in Taiwan
Railway stations in Taichung
Railway stations opened in 1905
Railway stations served by Taiwan Railways Administration
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