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 ...
Zhongshan Elementary School station is a station on the
Xinzhuang Line located in
Zhongshan
Zhongshan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in the south of the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province, China. As of the 2020 census, the whole city with 4,418,060 inhabitants is now part of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen conurbation with 65,565,622 i ...
,
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 station opened for service on 3 November 2010.
This station was named after the Zhongshan Elementary School, but it is notable that the
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER, ) is an incorporated non-profit research institute in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.
History
Established on 1 September 1976, it was the first independent academic research institute in Taiwan. ...
is located nearby.
Station overview
This two-level, underground station has an
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 ...
.
It is located beneath the intersection of Minquan West Rd. and Linsen North Rd. and opened on 3 November 2010 with the opening of the Luzhou Branch Line and the Taipei City section of the
Xinzhuang Line.
Construction
Excavation depth for this station is around 19 meters. It is 160 meters in length and 23 meters wide. It has four entrances, one accessible elevator, and two vent shafts.
It is equipped with
platform screen doors
Platform screen doors (PSDs), also known as platform edge doors (PEDs), are used at some train, rapid transit and people mover stations to separate the platform from train tracks, as well as on some bus rapid transit, tram and light rail syste ...
.
Station layout
Exits
*Exit 1: Linsen N. Rd.
*Exit 2: Xinxing Junior High School
*Exit 3: Xinsheng N. Rd.
*Exit 4: Zhongshan Elementary School
Around the station
*
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research
Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER, ) is an incorporated non-profit research institute in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.
History
Established on 1 September 1976, it was the first independent academic research institute in Taiwan. ...
*
The Landis Taipei
The Landis Taipei () is a five-star luxury hotel located in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. Opened in 1979, the hotel has 209 rooms and suites and has facilities such as a 24-hour business center, rooftop fitness center, and Proust VIP loun ...
* Zhongshan Elementary School
* Xinxing Junior High School
* Taipei Public Library, Heng-an People's Reading Room
* Qingguang Shopping District
* Hotel Sunroute Taipei (between this station and
Minquan West Road Station
Minquan West Road (, formerly transliterated as Minchuan West Road Station until 2003) is a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taipei Metro. It is a transfer station between and .
Station overview
The station is a three-level, undergrou ...
)
* Dao Jiang Senior High School of Nursing & Home Economics
* Shuangcheng Street Night Market
References
Zhonghe–Xinlu line stations
Railway stations opened in 2010
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