Puxin railway station

Railway station located in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

25°00′15″N 121°26′41″E / 25.004203°N 121.444693°E / 25.004203; 121.444693

Taiwan Railways Administration

Line(s)

Western Trunk line (109)

Distance73.1 km from KeelungPlatforms2 Island platformsConstructionStructure typeElevatedHistoryOpened10 April 1900 (1900-04-10)^[1]Passengers10,457 daily (2014)^[2] Services

Preceding station	Taiwan Railway			Following station
Zhongli towards Keelung		Western Trunk line		Yangmei towards Pingtung

Puxin station (traditional Chinese: 埔心車站; simplified Chinese: 埔心车站; pinyin: Bùxīn Chēzhàn) is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration West Coast line located in Yangmei District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.^[3]

History

The station was opened in 1900 as Anpinzhen (Hetin) station (安平鎮招呼站). It changed its name to the current name on 1 March 1955. The station building on the south entrance was built on 31 January 1986 and an expansion on the north entrance was completed on 9 December 2002.^[1] It is only served by local trains. The station building caught fire on 5 May 2016, and the fire damage was repaired by August 2016.

Around the station

Kuo Yuan Ye Museum of Cake and Pastry (2500 meters northwest of the station)
Puxin Night Market (next to the station)
Puxin Ranch (1300 meters northwest of the station)

References

^ ^a ^b 蘇昭旭 (2018). 台灣鐵路車站大觀 [The Practical Guide of Taiwan Railway Stations] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 人人出版. p. 45. ISBN 978-986-461-140-9.
^ "Volume of Passenger and Freight Traffic" (PDF). Taiwan Railway Administration. 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
^ "Puxin Railway Station – Yangmei City". wikimapia.org. Retrieved 23 August 2014.