Classic route
Tze-Chiang Limited Express
Taipei → Taitung · Taiwan
Tze-Chiang Limited Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 321 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 92 km/h
- Top speed
- 140 km/h
- Operator
- Taiwan Railway
- Train
- EMU3000
- Countries
- Taiwan
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Taiwan’s flagship Teng-Yun EMU3000, with a business-class car, curving down the wild Pacific east coast from Taipei to Taitung.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 5867231 (94 km), relation 5571509 (150 km) — 244 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 82.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 8 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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