Xiaobitan Station

Xiaobitan Station
(Xindian Senior High School)
小碧潭站
(新店高中)
Xiaobitan Station
Location
Municipality Taipei
District(s) Xindian
Address 4F., No.151, Zhongyang Rd.
Info
Type Elevated
History
Opened September 29, 2004
Rail services
Line(s)      Xiaobitan Line (G1A)
Daily Ridership 3,454 (2011)[1]
(Ranked 88th of 89)
Operator(s) Taipei Rapid Transit System
There is a bus stop near this station.
Xiaobitan Station
Chinese 小碧潭站

The Taipei Metro Xiaobitan Station is a terminal station on the Xiaobitan Branch Line located in Xindian District, New Taipei, Taiwan.

Station overview

Inside Xiaobitan Station
Xiaobitan Station Concourse

This elevated station has a side platform and two exits.[2] Its platform length allows for a three-car, high capacity train. The station location is right next to the Xindian Depot, above the maintenance workshop.[3][4]

The entrance to the station and platform are situated on the fourth floor of the depot. The station covers an area of 3,000 square meters, while the platform is 70.5 meters long.[4] Two escalators are located at the two entrances and are 14.45 meters high and 16.52 meters high; they are the second longest elevators in the system after those at Zhongxiao Fuxing.[4]

Public Art

Public art at the station is themed "The Way to the Very Joyance", where the station design includes many elements designed to embrace nature.[5] Pieces include "Time Jelly", a bronze piece shaped like melting toffee over a station wall, and "The Dancing Cloud", a plastic and steel piece situated on top of platform columns. Additional pieces include those in adjacent public squares around the station.

History

Construction began on April 2, 2001, and after four year of construction was completed on September 30, 2004. When the line first opened, some people complained about noise problems.[4][6] Thus, sound-muffling walls were built along the tracks coming into the station.

Although the station platform only allows room for a three-car trainset, when the station was first opened a six-car trainset was used on the line. In this case, only the first three train cars' doors opened at this station (selective door operation). It was not until July 22, 2006 that a dedicated three-car trainset began service on the line.

Station layout

4F Platform 1 ←      Xiaobitan Branch Line toward Qizhang (Terminus)
Side platform, Doors will open on the left
Concourse Market, lobby, information counter, automatic ticket machines, one-way faregates
Restrooms (inside fare zone)
3F Parking lot Elevator, Escalator Connecting Platform
2F Parking lot Elevator, Escalator Connecting Platform
Street Level Entrance/Exit, lobby Entrance/Exit, Market, Xindian Depot
Lobby, information counter, Restrooms (inside fare zone)

Exits

Xiaobitan Station Exit.1
Xiaobitan Station Exit.2

Around the station

Preceding station   Taipei Metro   Following station
Terminus
Xiaobitan LineTerminus

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Xiaobitan Station.
  1. ↑ "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
  2. ↑ "Route Map: Xiaobitan". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  3. ↑ "Xiaobitan line to be halted temporarily in off-peak". The China Times. 2008-11-22. Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "( G1A ) Xiaobitan". Comprehensive Planning Division, Civil Engineering and Architectural Design Division. 2008-11-18. Retrieved 2010-08-17.
  5. ↑ "Public Art on the Xindian Line". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. Retrieved 2010-12-05.
  6. ↑ "Small protest mars opening of MRT branch". Taipei Times. 2004-09-30. Retrieved 2010-06-15.

Coordinates: 24°58′23″N 121°31′48″E / 24.973065°N 121.529987°E