Sheng Hsing (), also spelled Shengsing, Shengxing or Shengzing, is a railway station 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 ...
West Coast line (
Former Mountain line). It is located in
Sanyi Township,
Miaoli County,
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 ...
. It is now a tourist spot surrounded by a cluster of tea shops and traditional
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...
restaurants.
History
The station was completed in 1905 and functioned as a station on the Mountain line section of the TRA's
West Coast line for nearly the rest of the century. At the time of opening, the line was the highest stretch of the main north-south line. The station itself is located at an altitude of 402 meters above sea level.
However, due to the steepness of the West Coast line in the vicinity of the station, the TRA constructed a new, more easily navigable section of the Mountain line. As a result, passenger services to Shengxing Station ceased in 1998 when the new section of the Mountain line opened while the previous segment of the Mountain line containing Shengxing station became known as the
Former Mountain line. However, due to its history and value to local people, the TRA kept the station as a tourist attraction, and in 1999 the
Miaoli County Government
The Miaoli County Government () is the local government of the Republic of China that governs Miaoli County.
History
The county government used to be housed in a building next to the current building which is now used as the Miaoli County Ur ...
designated the station as a historic site.
In 2010 as part of an initiative to increase tourism in the region, the TRA began steam train services on the Old Mountain line on special occasions.
Shengxing Station once again became a stop on passenger train services.
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 ...
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Qishan Train Station
References
1907 establishments in Taiwan
Railway stations in Miaoli County
Railway stations opened in 1907
Railway stations served by Taiwan Railways Administration
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