Classic route
Puyuma Express
Taipei → Taitung · Taiwan
- Distance
- 347 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 55 min
- Average speed
- 89 km/h
- Top speed
- 150 km/h
- Operator
- Taiwan Railway
- Train
- TEMU2000 tilting EMU
- Countries
- Taiwan
- In service since
- 2013
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Named for the Puyuma people: tilting trains lean through the Yilan curves, past Qingshui’s sheer sea cliffs, into the East Rift Valley’s rice paddies.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 5867231 (94 km), relation 5571509 (151 km) — 245 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 82.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 21.5 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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