Fengshan railway station

Fengshan station (Chinese: 鳳山車站; Hanyu Pinyin: Fèngshān Chēzhàn; Tongyong Pinyin: Fòngshan Chejhàn), formerly spelled Fongshan, is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Pingtung line located in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan.[1]

Fengshan 鳳山
Location	Caogong Rd, No. 68 Fongshan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Coordinates	22.631431°N 120.357658°E / 22.631431; 120.357658
Operated by	Taiwan Railways Administration
Line(s)	Pingtung line
Distance	5.8 km from Kaohsiung
Platforms	2 island
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Classification	二等站 (Taiwan Railways Administration level)
History
Opened	1 October 1907
Rebuilt	14 October 2018

The station is located about 700 meters from the Kaohsiung MRT Fongshan Station.

The temporary station during the construction of the new station building

History

The former station building, built in 1990

The station opened on 1 October 1907 as Hōzan Station (鳳山停車場), part of the first phase of what later became the TRA Pingtung line. In 1935, a brick station building replaced the original wooden station building, and was expanded twice in 1964 and 1990. The station tracks were electrified between 3 May 1995 (from Kaohsiung to Fengshan) and 10 July 1996 (from Fengshan to Pingtung). Until 1998, this station was also served by the South-North line (zh:南北平行預備線) of Taiwan Sugar Railways.

A temporary, underground station building was opened on 22 June 2014 at the site of the former Taiwan Sugar Railways platforms as part of the underground relocation of tracks of the West Coast line. At the same time, the station building was demolished and rebuilt.

See also

• List of railway stations in Taiwan

References

1. "歡迎光臨交通部台灣鐵路管理局". www.railway.gov.tw.

External links

Preceding station	Taiwan Railways			Following station
Zhengyi towards Pingtung		South-link line		Houzhuang towards Taitung