Badu railway station

Badu

八堵
Badu; 八堵
General information
Location	142 Badu Rd.; Nuannuan, Keelung, Taiwan
Coordinates	25°6′30″N 121°43′44″E / 25.10833°N 121.72889°E
Operated by	Taiwan Railways Administration;
Line(s)	Western Trunk line, Yilan line;
Distance	3.7 km from Keelung, 0 km from Badu
Platforms	1 Island platform, 2 side platforms
Connections	Bus stops
Construction
Structure type	At-Grade
History
Opened	July 20, 1899 (original); 1986 (present building)
Passengers
	4,424 daily (2023)
Services

Badu Station (Chinese: 八堵車站; pinyin: Bādǔ Chēzhàn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Peh-tó͘ Chhia-chām) is a railway station at the junction of the Taiwan Railways Administration West Coast line and the Yilan line. It is the western terminus of the Yilan line and is located in Nuannuan District, Keelung, Taiwan.

History

The station was opened in 1899 during Japanese rule. In April 1914, the rail line from Keelung to Haccho (Badu) was completed. The station has served as an important transfer point between the West Coast line and the Yilan line since 1919, when the first segment of the Yilan line was built in the same year.^[1]

The Badu railway station incident [zh] occurred in March 1947, as a part of anti-government protests known as the February 28 incident. Civilians began protesting at Badu railway station on 1 March 1947 the government response to the events of the previous day, and attacked National Revolutionary Army servicemen. Military forces returned ten days later, killing between five and eight station employees, while also removing at least eight more from their posts. The latter group vanished without a trace.^[3]

The current station building was completed in 1986, and a memorial to the victims of the February 28 incident was unveiled outside the station in 1994. Now it is one of the busiest stations in southern Keelung, with more than 5,000 passengers per day as of 2014.

Platform layout

1	1	■ Yilan line (northbound arrival), West Coast line (southbound departure)	Toward Qidu, Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Pingtung
2	2	■ Yilan line (southbound departure)	Toward Ruifang, Yilan, Su'aoxin
3	3A	■ West Coast line (southbound departure)	Toward Qidu, Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Pingtung
4	3B	■ West Coast line (northbound departure)	Toward Keelung

References

^ ^a ^b 蘇昭旭 (2018). 台灣鐵路車站大觀 [The Practical Guide of Taiwan Railway Stations] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 人人出版. p. 34. ISBN 978-986-461-140-9.
^ Taiwan Railway Corporation (June 2024). "表6 各站客貨運起訖量 Table 6 Volume of Passenger & Freight Traffic". 中華民國112年臺灣鐵路統計年報 Statistical report of Taiwan Railways -2023- (Report) (in Chinese (Taiwan) and English). Taiwan Railway Corporation. pp. 20–31. Archived from the original on 2024-05-22. Retrieved 2024-08-16.
^ Han Cheung (23 February 2020). "Taiwan in Time: Terror on the north coast". Taipei Times. Retrieved 23 February 2020.