Bannan line

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Bannan line
Platform at Taipei Main Station
Overview
Other name(s)	Blue Line
Locale	Taipei, Taiwan
Termini	Dingpu, Far Eastern Hospital Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Kunyang
Stations	23
Service
Type	Rapid transit
Operator(s)	Taipei Rapid Transit System
Depot(s)	Nangang Depot, Tucheng Depot
Rolling stock	Siemens Modular Metro (C321 and C341) 3 carriages per set, 2 sets per train
History
Opened	24 December 1999 (1999-12-24)
Technical
Line length	26.6 km (16.5 mi)
Number of tracks	2
Character	Underground
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	Third rail (750 volts DC)
Operating speed	80 km/h
hide Route map Legend Other features Stations (  ) BL23 Nangang Exhib Center ( Western Trunk line ) (  ) BL22 Nangang Nangang depot BL21 Kunyang BL20 Houshanpi BL19 Yongchun BL18 Taipei City Hall BL17 Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall BL16 Zhongxiao Dunhua (  ) BL15 Zhongxiao Fuxing (  ) BL14 Zhongxiao Xinsheng BL13 Shandao Temple (  ) BL12 Taipei Main Station ( Western Trunk line )(  ) (  A ) (  ) BL11 Ximen BL10 Longshan Temple Wanhua Xindian River Taipei New Taipei City BL09 Jiangzicui (  ) Xinpu Minsheng BL08 Xinpu (  ) ( Western Trunk line ) (  ) BL07 Banqiao BL06 Fuzhong BL05 Far Eastern Hospital Tucheng depot BL04 Haishan BL03 Tucheng BL02 Yongning BL01 Dingpu This diagram: view talk

A Bannan Line C321 train pulling into Dingpu station

The Bannan or Blue line (code BL) is a metro line in Taipei operated by Taipei Metro with a total of 23 stations serving the districts of Nangang, Xinyi, Daan, Zhongshan, Wanhua, Banqiao and Tucheng. The line's name is a portmanteau of Banqiao and Nangang.

The entire line runs underground. The excavation of tunnels using the cut-and-cover method resulted in large scale detouring of road traffic. Because of that, the line runs beneath existing roads and totals 28.3 km (17.6 mi).

Overview[]

Service on this line is divided into a full-length service from Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center to Dingpu, as well as a shorter service from Kunyang to Far Eastern Hospital.

Due to Taipei City Hall being at the centre of the Taipei 101 New Year's festivities, intervals between trains can be reduced to a minimum of 135 seconds, transporting up to 39,000 passengers per hour.^[1] This results in an average of about 27 trains per hour on the line during peak hours.

History[]

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• 8 November 1990: The Nangang section begins construction.
• 30 December 1991: The Taipei Main Station western underground passageway opens.
• 24 December 1993: Nangang section construction at the intersection of Zhongxiao East Rd and Shaoxing Rd caves in, causes traffic jams.
• 30 October 1998: Construction is completed on the tunnel between Kunyang and Houshanpi.
• 24 December 1999: The segment from Taipei City Hall to Longshan Temple begins revenue service.
• 31 August 2000: The segment from Longshan Temple to Xinpu begins revenue service.
• 30 December 2000: The segment from Kunyang to Taipei City Hall begins revenue service.
• 17 September 2001: Typhoon Nari floods many stations, rendering them nonoperational.
• 29 November 2001: Taipei Main Station re-opens for service.
• 30 December 2003: The Nangang section eastern extension to Nangang begins construction.
• 17 November 2004: The Nangang section eastern extension to Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center begins construction.
• 27 May 2006: The segment from Banqiao to Tucheng opens for trial operations.
• 31 May 2006: The segment from Xinpu to Yongning begins revenue service.
• 16 May 2008: The Nangang section eastern extension to Nangang begins trial service.
• 25 December 2008: The Nangang section eastern extension to Nangang begins revenue service.
• February 27, 2011: The rest of the Nangang section eastern extension to Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center opened for service.^[2]
• 21 May 2014: The 2014 Taipei Metro attack occurs between Longshan Temple and Jiangzicui when 21-year-old university student Cheng Chieh attacked passengers with a fruit knife, leading to 4 deaths and 24 injuries.
• 6 July 2015^{[citation needed]}: The Tucheng Section extension to Dingpu Station begins revenue service, the final expansion of the line.
• 28 September 2018: Half-height platform edge doors are installed in Tucheng, making all stations on this line and entire Taipei Metro system have some form of platform doors.

Services[]

As of December 2017, the typical off-peak service is:

• 8 trains per hour (tph) between Far Eastern Hospital and Kunyang
• 7 tph between Dingpu and Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center

Stations[]

Services			Code	Station Name		Travel time to previous station (s)[3]	Stop time at station (s)[3]	Date opened	Transfer	Districts
Normal		Night		English	Chinese
●			BL01	Dingpu	頂埔	n/a	25	2015-07-06	LB (constructing)	Tucheng
●			BL02	Yongning	永寧	180	25	2006-05-31	LG (out-of-station) (constructing)
●			BL03	Tucheng	土城	95	25	2006-05-31	LG (constructing)
●			BL04	Haishan	海山	106	25	2006-05-31
●	●	●	BL05	Far Eastern Hospital	亞東醫院	142	25	2006-05-31		Banqiao
●	●	●	BL06	Fuzhong	府中	92	25	2006-05-31
●	●	●	BL07	Banqiao	板橋	89	25	2006-05-31	(out of station)
●	●	●	BL08	Xinpu	新埔	102	25	2000-08-31	(Xinpu Minsheng)
●	●	●	BL09	Jiangzicui	江子翠	74	25	2000-08-31
●	●	●	BL10	Longshan Temple	龍山寺	190	28	1999-12-24	(Wanhua)	Wanhua
●	●	●	BL11	Ximen	西門	103	30	1999-12-24		Zhongzheng, Wanhua
●	●	●	BL12	Taipei Main Station	台北車站	132	40	1999-12-24	A	Zhongzheng
●	●	●	BL13	Shandao Temple	善導寺	64	30	1999-12-24
●	●	●	BL14	Zhongxiao Xinsheng	忠孝新生	76	28	1999-12-24		Daan, Zhongzheng
●	●	●	BL15	Zhongxiao Fuxing	忠孝復興	84	40	1999-12-24		Daan
●	●	●	BL16	Zhongxiao Dunhua	忠孝敦化	63	28	1999-12-24
●	●	●	BL17	Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall	國父紀念館	67	28	1999-12-24		Xinyi, Daan
●	●	●	BL18	Taipei City Hall	市政府	72	28	1999-12-24		Xinyi
●	●	●	BL19	Yongchun	永春	82	28	2000-12-30
●	●	●	BL20	Houshanpi	後山埤	73	30	2000-12-30		Nangang, Xinyi
●	●	●	BL21	Kunyang	昆陽	99	25	2000-12-30		Nangang
●	●		BL22	Nangang	南港	105	25	2008-12-25
●	●		BL23	Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center	南港展覽館	114	n/a	2011-02-27

References[]

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