Changhua’s Fan-shaped Garage
Craig January 12th, 2008
A couple of weeks ago Ashish from Tumbling in Taiwan posted about a recent trip he made to Changhua. In it he mentioned seeing a sign at the train station that said “fan-shape garage” and was wondering what it was. So, with today being a beautiful winters day with clear blue skies, I decided to take a walk down to the fan-shape garage and take a look around.
Dating back to the age of steam, the maintenance garage at Changhua is the only one of its kind in Taiwan. Changhua station used to be an important midway point of the western rail line, and is the southern meeting point of the mountain and coastal lines. The rails radiate out of the garage like spokes and a single turntable is used to position the trains. Today there are three old steam engines located in the garage, and it is also used as a maintenance depot for diesel and electric trains. I was unable to find out any more information about the garage, so I’ll leave you with the pictures.
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- Comments(7)
Craig, these are spectacular shots. Its pretty hard for me to pick up one from those. I love that blue, orange and black combination of first couple of pictures.It would be interesting to see maintenance staff in action with that turn table.It looks more like a train museum to me though.Fan-shape garage is indeed one of a kind and very interesting place.
Thanks a lot for taking time and visiting this place.
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Hey - Looks like a cool place, I saw this a few weeks ago on the Changha government website and I should take the kids there, I bet they would get a big kick out of it!
Looks like a fun place! Excellent pics Craig!
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Thanks for the comments and links.
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