The Taipei Railway Workshop (Chinese: 臺北機廠) was the largest railway workshop of the Taiwan Railways Administration. For decades it manufactured and maintained thousands of railway vehicles. The workshop was established in 1935 to replace the original workshop, the Old Taipei Railway Workshop, which had become inadequate. It was the largest railway workshop ever built in Taiwan. The Governor-General of Taiwan recognized its establishment as a celebration of the Empire of Japan's rule of Taiwan for 40 years.[1]
| Taipei Railway Workshop | |
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臺北機廠 | |
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| Former names | Train Hospital |
| General information | |
| Type | Former workshop |
| Location | Xinyi, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Coordinates | 25°02′46″N 121°33′48″E / 25.0461°N 121.5634°E |
| Completed | 30 October 1935 |
| Grounds | 16.82 hectares |
The 16.82-hectare site on Civic Boulevard was the largest and oldest kind on the island. It closed in 2012. It was constructed in 1930 and featured distinctive structures such as a 168-meter-long train assembly shed.[2] The operation was transferred to TRA Fugang Vehicle Depot (Chinese: 臺鐵富岡基地).[3] The workshop was recognized as an "official national historic site" in 2015. The government of Taiwan says it is planning to transform the facility into a railway museum.[2][4]
In popular culture
editThe Taipei Railway Workshop was featured in the 2013 Jay Chou film The Rooftop and in the 2014 Luc Besson film Lucy.
Gallery
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Side view of Workshop access tracks and rolling stock in December 2006. -
View of the Workshop from Taipei 101. -
View of the Workshop in 1935. -
Bathhouse of the Workshop.
Transportation
editThe Taipei Railway Workshop is accessible within walking distance northeast from Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station or south from Nanjing Sanmin Station of the Taipei Metro.
References
edit- ^ "Restoration work starts on heritage railway workshop bathhouse - Focus Taiwan".
- ^ a b "Taipei Railway Workshop added to heritage list". Taiwan Today. March 16, 2015.
- ^ "關於北廠-反對臺北機廠成為北美二館" [About North Plant - against Taipei factory become the second museum in North America]. December 15, 2013. Archived from the original on May 18, 2015.
- ^ Lii, Wen; Shan, Shelley (16 March 2015). "Workshop named historical site". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
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