Gangshan railway station

22°47′33″N 120°18′01″E / 22.792433°N 120.300281°E / 22.792433; 120.300281

Line(s)Distance378.4 km from KeelungPlatforms2 island platformConnectionsBus stopConstructionStructure typeSurfaceAccessibleYesOther informationClassification一等站 (Taiwan Railway level)HistoryOpenedTRA: 15 December 1900 (original)
29 October 1993 (present building)
KMRT: 30 June 2024Passengers5,963 daily (2014)^[1] Services

Preceding station	Taiwan Railway			Following station
Luzhu towards Keelung		Western Trunk line		Qiaotou towards Pingtung
Preceding station	Kaohsiung Metro			Following station
Terminus		Red line		Kaohsiung Medical University Gangshan Hospital towards Siaogang

Gangshan railway station
Chinese	岡山車站
Simplified Chinese	冈山车站
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Gāngshān Chēzhàn Bopomofo ㄍㄤ ㄕㄢ ㄔㄜ ㄓㄢˋ Wade–Giles Kang1shan1ch'ê1chan4

Gangshan (Chinese: 岡山車站; pinyin: Gāngshān Chēzhàn) is a railway station and metro station on the Taiwan Railway West Coast line and Kaohsiung Metro Red line located in Gangshan District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.^[2]

History

The station was opened on 15 December 1900 as Agongdian Station (阿公店停車場), and was renamed as Okayama Station (岡山駅) in 1920. In November 1923, a second, wooden station building was opened to replace the original 1900 station. The current station building was opened on 29 October 1993, and the 1923 wooden station building burned down on 3 November 1995. Contactless smartcard fare gates were installed at this station on 30 September 2013.

The Kaohsiung Metro Red line extension which directly link to train station has been operated in 30 June 2024.^[3]

Around the station

• Gangshan Water Tower
• Kaohsiung Museum of Shadow Puppet
• Provincial Highway 1
• Republic of China Air Force Academy

See also

• List of railway stations in Taiwan

References