- Kaohsiung Station
Kaohsiung Station(高雄車站) is a railway station located at
Sanmin District ,Kaohsiung ,Taiwan , which servesTaiwan Railway Administration Western Line ,Pingtung Line ,Kaohsiung Harbor Line andKaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Red Line. There is a plan to extendTaiwan High Speed Rail fromNew Zuoying Station to this station. To allow this, railway undergrounding will be required.History
TRA Station
* 1900 Takau(打狗) station opened with the opening of Tainan-Takau line where there is
Kaohsiung Harbor Station today.
* 1907 Fongshan branch ( extended to today's Pingtung Line ) opened.
* 1920 Takau Station was renamed to Kaohsiung Station.
* 1933 Construction of new station on Fongshan branch started.
*Jun 22 ,1941 Kaohsiung Station (new) opened and old Kaohsiung Station was renamed to Kaohsiung Harbor Station.KMRT Station
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March 9 ,2008 : Red Line between Ciaotou and Siaogang opened.Nearby stations
;Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA):Western Line:Pingtung Line;Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit:Red Line
External links
* [http://service.tra.gov.tw/Kaohsiung/ Kaohsiung Station] (Chinese)
* [http://service.tra.gov.tw/en/CP/11434/Kaohsiung.aspx Kaohsiung Station] (English)
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