The Taichung line (), also known as the Mountain line (), is a line of the

Taiwan Railway 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 ...

, 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 which is

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, passing Downtown Taichung.

History

The Taichung Line was completed in 1908. After the Coast Line between

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was finished in 1922, the original line was called Taichung Line. In 1998, the construction to expand to two tracks (

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) was completed. Long tunnels were built to reduce the grade of the line.

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Tunnel is one of the longest

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s in Taiwan. The opening of the new segment of the line relegated the previous segment of the line to become the Old Mountain Line. The section between

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was rebuilt as an elevated line in 2016. Five new stations were added in 2018:

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, Toujiacuo, Songzhu, Jingwu, and Wuquan.

Stations

Notes: * Tai'an Station: Earliest elevated station of TRA.

References

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