Scenic route
Pingxi Line
Ruifang → Jingtong · Taiwan
Pingxi Line in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 13 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 50 min
- Average speed
- 16 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Taiwan Railway
- Train
- DR1000 railcar
- Countries
- Taiwan
- In service since
- 1921
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1920s coal branch where railcars squeeze between Shifen’s shop-fronts as sky lanterns lift off: waterfalls and a cat village along the way.
How this line was checked
- The 13 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5149859 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 86.8% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Taiwan Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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