Classic route
Taroko Express
Taipei → Hualien · Taiwan
Taroko Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 170 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h
- Average speed
- 85 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- Taiwan Railway
- Train
- TEMU1000
- Countries
- Taiwan
- In service since
- 2007
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Japanese-built TEMU1000 tilting train carving through the Yilan cliffs and tunnels from Taipei to the marble gorge country of Hualien.
How this line was checked
- The 94 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 5867231 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 69.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 17 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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