THSR Taoyuan Station

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THSR Taoyuan Station 高鐵桃園站
THSR Taoyuan Station Front
Location
County	Taoyuan
City	Zhongli
Address	No. 6, Sec. 1, Gaotie N. Rd.^[1]
Info
Type	Underground
History
Opened	November 10, 2006
Rail services
Line(s)	Taiwan High Speed Rail (TAY/04) Blue Line (B10)
Daily Ridership	21,266 (2012)^[2]
Operator(s)	Taiwan High Speed Rail
There is a bus stop near this station.

THSR Taoyuan Station

Traditional Chinese

高鐵桃園站

Transcriptions
Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Gāotiě Táoyuán Chējhàn
Min
Hokkien POJ	Ko-thih Thô-hn̂g Chhia-thâu

THSR Taoyuan Station (高鐵桃園站) is an underground station of the Taiwan High Speed Rail located in Zhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan. It is also known as Qingpu Station (青埔車站).^[3]^[4]

Overview

THSR Taoyuan Station platform

The underground station has two side platforms. The Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation signed contracts with both China Airlines and EVA Air for preferential services at this station for the two airlines' outbound passengers.^[5] Twenty-two hectares of land around the station are slated for commercial and manufacturing development, with the goal of developing the area into an international commercial city.^[6]

In the future the station will also connect to the Taoyuan Airport MRT (scheduled to begin service in 2014) and the planned Taoyuan MRT network. The station will be elevated with one island platform and one side platform.

History

November 10, 2006: The station opened for service.
January 5, 2007: The segment from Banqiao to Zuoying opened for service. Trains begin stopping at the station.

Station layout

Street Level

Lobby

Entrance/Exit, ticketing, automatic ticket machines, restrooms, information desk
Tourism counter, retail stores
Parking lot, transfers, taxi stand, drop-off area
CI (along with CA, MU, CZ, SC, FM, HU and ZH), BR (as well as B7) check-in counters

B1	Concourse	Waiting area, nursery, retail stores
B2
	Side platform
	Platform 1	THSR toward Zuoying (Hsinchu)
	Platform 2	THSR toward Taipei (Banqiao)
	Side platform

Gallery

Around the station

Ching Yun University
Vanung University
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport: frequent buses link the airport and the station.
National Highway No. 2 Dazhu Interchange
Metro Walk Mall
Liqingpu Elementary School
Taoyuan County Baseball Stadium

Preceding station		Taiwan High Speed Rail		Following station
Banqiao toward Taipei		Taiwan High Speed Rail		Hsinchu toward Zuoying

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to THSR Taoyuan Station.

↑ "Destinations". Taiwan High Speed Rail. Retrieved 2010-07-05.
↑ "Table 2-9 Passenger Traffic of High-Speed Rail Stations". Ministry of Transportation and Communications. April 2012. Retrieved 2013-07-22.
↑ "Taoyuan Airport to allow check-ins at HSR station". The China Post. 2010-08-24. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
↑ "Ministry takes over rail project". Taipei Times. 2003-06-29. Retrieved 2011-03-07.
↑ "High Speed Rail Sees Passenger Number Hit Record High of Over 3 Million in Feb.". China Economics News Service. 2010-03-08. Retrieved 2011-01-19.
↑ "Foreign companies interested in developing railway station area". Focus Taiwan News Channel. 2009-07-04. Retrieved 2010-07-04.

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Nangang Taipei Banqiao Taoyuan Hsinchu Miaoli Taichung Changhua Yunlin Chiayi Tainan Zuoying Kaohsiung Italics indicate stations under construction Grey text indicates planned stations.

Coordinates: 25°0′46.91″N 121°12′53.10″E / 25.0130306°N 121.2147500°E / 25.0130306; 121.2147500

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