Songjiang Nanjing Station
Songjiang Nanjing Station exits 2 and 3 | |
Location |
B1, No. 126, Songjiang Rd. Zhongshan, Taipei Taiwan |
Operated by | |
Line(s) | |
Connections | Bus stop |
Construction | |
Structure type | Underground |
History | |
Opened | November 3, 2010 |
Traffic | |
Passengers |
25,189 daily (2011)[1] (Ranked 47th of 89) |
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Traditional Chinese | 松江南京站 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Postal | Sungkiang Nanking Chan | ||||||||||||||||||
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The Taipei Metro Songjiang Nanjing Station (Chinese: 松江南京站; pinyin: Sōngjiāng Nánjīng Zhàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siông-kang Lâm-kiann Chām) is a station on the Xinzhuang Line located in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is a transfer station between the Xinzhuang Line and Songshan Line. The station opened on November 3, 2010 for traffic on the Xinzhuang Line, and Songshan Line services opened on November 15, 2014.
Station overview
This underground station[2] has an island platform and has two side platforms for the Songshan Line.[3] It is located beneath the intersection of Songjiang Rd. and Nanjing East Rd. (hence the name of the station), and opened in November 2010 with the opening of the Luzhou Line and the Taipei City section of the Xinzhuang Line.[4][5]
Construction
Excavation depth for this station was around 29 meters for the Xinzhuang Line station and 20 meters for the Songshan Line station. The Xinzhuang Line station is 191 meters in length and 32 meters wide, while the Songshan Line station is 202 meters in length and 26 meters wide.[6] It has eight entrances, two accessibility elevators, and four vent shafts.[4] Two of the entrances and a vent shaft are integrated with joint development buildings. One entrance is integrated with the Council for Economic Planning and Development building. The station is equipped with platform screen doors for both lines.
Public Art
The theme for the Songshan Line station is "Metropolitan Images of Daily Life" (都會眾生相).[6] It uses four elements (earth, fire, water, wind) to present surreal situations of the combination of city and nature.
- Earth: Business in the City Jungle
- Fire: University in a Flash
- Water: Office Under the Sea
- Wind: Coffee Shop Floating in the Clouds
History
- June 1, 2003: Construction began on the station.
- November 3, 2010: The station opens for service with the opening of the Xinzhuang Line.
- November 8, 2014: Songshan Line platforms were opened temporarily for visitors.[7]
- November 15, 2014: Songshan Line opened for services.
Station layout
Street Level | Entrance/Exit | Entrance/Exit |
B1 | Connecting Level | Lobby, information desk, automatic ticket dispensing machines, one-way faregates |
Restrooms (Inside fare zone, outside fare zone near Exit 1, 2, 6, 7) | ||
B2 | Passage Level | Escalators, elevators to Concourse and Platform levels |
Platform 3 | ← Line 3 toward Songshan (Nanjing Fuxing) | |
Platform 4 | → Line 3 toward Xindian/ Taipower Building (Zhongshan) → | |
Passage Level | Escalators, elevators to Concourse and Platform levels | |
B4 | Platform 1 | ← Line 4 toward Luzhou/ Huilong (Xingtian Temple) |
Island platform, doors will open on the left | ||
Platform 2 | Line 4 toward Nanshijiao (Zhongxiao Xinsheng) → |
Exits
- Exit 1: Yijiang St.
- Exit 2: Changan Junior High School
- Exit 3: Changan Junior High School
- Exit 4: Yitong Park
- Exit 5: Jianguo N. Rd. Sec. 1
- Exit 6: Jianguo N. Rd. Sec. 2
- Exit 7: Siping Sunshine Shopping District
- Exit 8: Songjiang Rd.
Around the station
- Embassy of Panama
- Evergreen Laurel Hotels (Taipei)
- Siping Street Shopping District
- State Visitor Changchun Theater
- Yitong Park
- The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (between this station and Xingtian Temple Station)
- Datong High School
- Zhong Shan Girls High School
- Chang-an Junior High School
- Changchun Elementary School
- Museum of Jade Art
- Suho Paper Memorial Museum
Preceding station | Taipei Metro | Following station | ||
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toward Songshan | Line 3 | toward Xindian |
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Line 4 | toward Nanshijiao |
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Songjiang Nanjing Station. |
- ↑ "Passenger Volume at Taipei Rapid Transit Stations" (PDF). Taipei City Department of Transportation. 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
- ↑ "Songjiang Nanjing Station". Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
- ↑ "捷運松山線工程特色". Department of Rapid Transit Systems. 2006-11-01. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- 1 2 "Introduction to Xinzhuang MRT Line" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transis Systems. 2008-03-01. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- ↑ "Second Stage of Taipei MRT (Approved MRT Lines)". Department of Rapid Transit Systems, TCG. 2010-03-12. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
- 1 2 "捷運系統松山線簡介" (PDF). Department of Rapid Transit Systems. September 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ↑ Gerber, Abraham (November 9, 2014). "Residents sneak a peek at new MRT transfer station". Taipei Times. Retrieved November 9, 2014.
Coordinates: 25°03′07″N 121°31′59″E / 25.052003°N 121.533042°E