Changhua () is a railway station in

Changhua County Changhua County ( Mandarin Pinyin: ''Zhānghuà Xiàn''; Wade-Giles: ''Chang¹-hua⁴ Hsien⁴''; Hokkien POJ: ''Chiang-hòa-koān'' or ''Chiong-hòa-koān'') is the smallest county on the main island of Taiwan by area, and the fourth small ...

, Taiwan served by

Taiwan High Speed Rail Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) is the high-speed railway of Taiwan consisting of one line that runs approximately along the west coast, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung. With construction and operations managed by a pri ...

Overview

Due to funding problems, Changhua Station was not constructed when Taiwan High Speed Rail first opened for service in 2007, and the detailed design began in 2010. The station opened on 1 December 2015. The station consists of one elevated main station 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 platform ...

s. It is worth mentioning that even though

is the most populated

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposes Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

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 passenger volume of the HSR station is the lowest among all 12 HSR stations in Taiwan. Due to the location of the station, it cannot service those living in the northern part of the county (

Changhua City Changhua (Hokkien POJ: ''Chiong-hòa'' or ''Chiang-hòa''), officially known as Changhua City, is a county-administered city and the county seat of Changhua County in Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. For many centuries the site was h ...

,) and most people who live in

will take the HSR from

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 Ta ...

as it is a lot closer to Changhua City than Changhua Station. Changhua Station currently has no connection to TRA services. A 3-km branch line from Tianzhong railway station connecting to Changhua HSR station is expected to be completed in 2029.

Architecture

The station was designed by

Kris Yao Kris Yao (; born December 1951) is a Taiwanese architect, and the founder and head architect at KRIS YAO , ARTECH in Taipei and Shanghai. Biography Yao was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan. Yao received his Bachelor of Architecture at Tungha ...

with a theme of the natural surrounding of flower, vegetation and water around the station with a total floor area of 2.2 hectares. The main material for the station wall are panels of glass. The elevated station has two

HSR services

The station is mostly served by 8xx trains which stop at all stations on the Taiwan High Speed Rail. In addition, Southbound Service 583 which departs from

and Northbound Service 598 which terminates at

also call at this station. The station is also served by a few (1)3xx semi-express trains.

Around the station

* TRA Western Trunk line

Shetou Station Shetou () is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration West Coast line located in Shetou Township, Changhua County, Taiwan. Around the station * Shetou Doushan Temple * THSR Changhua Station See also * List of railway stations ...

, Tianzhong Station

References

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