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 Railways Administration level)HistoryOpenedTRA: 15 December 1900 (original)
29 October 1993 (present building)
KMRT: June 2024 (expected opening)Passengers5,963 daily (2014)^[1]

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 on the Taiwan Railways Administration West Coast 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.

Future MRT Connection

The Kaohsiung Metro Red line is expected to be extended northwards to Gangshan Station by June 2024.^[3] The new metro station will have a direct link to the train station and will be coded as RK1.

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

Preceding station	Taiwan Railway			Following station
Luzhu towards Keelung		Western Trunk line		Qiaotou towards Pingtung