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Old Taipei Railway Workshop was a railway vehicle assembly and maintenance factory affiliated with the Taiwan Governor-General Office Bureau of Transportation Railway Department in Japanese colonial period. After moving to Taipei Railway Workshop in Songshan in 1934, the original premises were gradually modified to offices of other units of the Ministry of Railways, or gradually modified to the employee dormitories of the Ministry of Railways. The original buildings have been nearly completely demolished and no longer exist. The Old Taipei Railway Workshop today is the "Vehicle Maintenance Workshop" built during the eastward expansion of the Taipei Workshop in 1909. After World War II, it was mainly used as the auditorium of the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) and was designated as a historic site at the Taipei Municipality Level in 2005.
The "Dadaocheng Taipei Station" warehouse in Dadaocheng was used for a short time and later part of the "Taipei Weaponry Repair Center" building was also borrowed for railway vehicle assembly and maintenance in the early days of the Japanese colonial rule. In 1899, the "Taipei Weaponry Repair Center" was renamed the "Taipei Artillery Factory", and in 1900 the following year, the "Taipei Artillery Factory" was handed over to the Ministry of Railways, Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan for use as a railway workshop.[1]: 52–53
In terms of the establishment of a railway workshop, Taipei was organized as the "Taipei Workshop", followed by the establishment of the "Takow Workshop" in 1901, and the establishment of Hualien Port Workshop in 1918. In December 1924, the Transportation Bureau was established above the Ministry of Railways to support the administrative restructuring of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan while the Taipei, Takow, and Hualien Port Workshops were directly under the management of the Transportation Bureau. In 1926, they were changed to Taipei Railway Workshop, Kaohsiung Railway Workshop, and Hualien Port Railway Workshop. In 1927, the Hualien Port Railway Workshop was merged into the Hualien Branch Office, which was called the Repair Workshop. By the end of the Japanese colonial rule, the railway workshops in Taipei and Kaohsiung were directly affiliated with the Transportation Bureau.[2]: 38
Before the creation of the "Taipei Railway Workshop", the workshop to the north of the "Taipei Artillery Factory", received from the Taipei Machinery Bureau in the Qing Dynasty, was used for railway vehicle assembly and maintenance work. In 1900, the Ministry of Railways took over the "Taipei Artillery Factory" and established the "Taipei Railway Workshop" by using the factory buildings on the north side. There were mainly 7 buildings in the premises. Later, about 5 large and small factory buildings were successively built on the vacant plots of the premises. By 1908, there were mainly 13 buildings on the premises.[1]: 55
In 1908, the Trunk Line, was opened to traffic, and the vehicle maintenance business increased. It was planned to expand the workshop building on the east side of the existing premises. The expansion project was completed in 1909, and the new "Vehicle Maintenance Workshop", "Coating Workshop", and Vehicle Relocation Platform were built. Among them, the "Vehicle Repair Workshop" is today's designated historic site "Taipei Workshop" at the Taipei Municipality Level. With the development of the railway industry over the years, more buildings were built on the premises to meet the requirements of business expansion. However, no plots were available in the surrounding area for further expansion. So it was relocated to the Taipei New Railway Workshop in Songshan in 1934 due to the restrictions of the existing premises.[2]: 39, 42–43
After moving to the existing workshop building, the premises were expanded eastward in 1909. The south side of the premises was used as the Railway Department Office starting from 1918, and the workshop buildings in this area were used as the office of the related units of the Ministry of Railways. On the west side of the premises, the surrounding area was successively removed and modified as employee dormitories of the Ministry of Railways to assist with the existing dormitory complex of the Ministry of Railways. After World War II, the office building and dormitory area of the Ministry of Railways were taken over by the TRA, and basically the existing functions were retained.[2]: 66
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