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July / August 2008

Selection of railway photos from my most recent trip to Taiwan. You can also find some others, including miniature live steam at the Webmaster's Page of the Gippsland Model Engineering Society's site.

DHL109 arrives at Ershui, junction of the Jiji branch. 2-6-2T CK124 is at the rear.
CK 124, a 2-6-2T locomotive on shuttle trips on the Jiji branch.
E 212 arrives at Gangshan with a northbound train. Taiwan Railway Administration's trains reach speeds up to 130km/h on 1067mm gauge track.
Taiwan High Speed Rail station at Taoyuan (near airport). Same design as Japan's Shinkansen, the trains travel at 300km/h
CK124 again, departing Cho-shui
Disused enclosed trolley at Taipei Children's Transportation Museum. This facility is difficult to describe. Public park, with mini road system (like a children's traffic school in Australia) but with fairground rides, statically preserved trains and a tram, plus this 2'6" gauge railway that appears not to have been used for some time.
Another view of the track at the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum. Note the mini-motorway in the background. more photos of this shall appear on my Signspotters site soon.
THSR train departing Chiayi station.
CK124 at Cho-shuei, taken from a departing Diesel Rail Car set.
Driver's controls on the DRC to Che-cheng on the Jiji branch.
Former Finnish tram at Taipei Children's Transportation Museum.
Tubize-built sugar cane steam loco at Taipei Children's Transportation Museum.
Sugar cane diesel loco at Taipei Children's Transportation Museum.
This circus train ride ran around the sugar cane steam loco and carriages on a track with extremely tight curves.
Another train at the Taipei Children's Transportation Museum.
One of the trains of the newly-opened (April) Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transport system. Ciaotou station
Interior of the above train.
Taipei Mass Rapid Transit train at Yuan Shan.
Interior of a Taipei MRT train. Usually they are very full. This one was taken on the day most of Taiwan was shut down by a typhoon. The usual 2-4 minute frequencies were slashed to 15 minutes.
Old style level crossing barrier still in use at Chia-yi by the Alishan Forestry Railway.
View of Biemen station yard. Alishan Forestry Railway.
Level crossing approach, Alishan Forestry Railway, Chia-yi - near Biemen station.
Many stations in Taiwan have level crossing signals on the platform or in the station booking hall. They are intended to advertise the emergency button fitted to all such signals in Taiwan. Should a motorist be trapped between the gates, they can push the button to open the gate and set signals to red to (hopefully) stop the approaching train. There is also an emergency phone number to call, but I can't help feeling you wouldn't have time to call it with a train approaching at 130km/h.
Sign in a train advertising the level crossing emergency button.

 

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For more of my Taiwan photos, check my traffic sign and signals site. Also GMES.

For more information on Taiwan's Railways (in English) see The Railways of Taiwan.
Includes detailed maps, photos and videos.