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A Sugar Railway DIEMA diesel locomotive on the Magongcuo Line
Overview
Main region(s)
Taiwan
Parent company
Taiwan Sugar Corporation
Dates of operation
1907 (1907)–present
Technical
Track gauge
762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
Taiwan Sugar Railways
Traditional Chinese
臺灣糖業鐵路
Simplified Chinese
台湾糖业铁路
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Táiwān Tángyè Tiělù
Wade–Giles
T'ai2-wan1 T'ang2-yeh4 T'ieh3-lu4
Tongyong Pinyin
Táiwan Tángyè Tiělù
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Tâi-oân Thn̂g-gia̍p Thih-lō͘
The Taiwan Sugar Railways is a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) industrial railway operated by the Taiwan Sugar Corporation. The railway was primarily used in the production of sugar by transporting sugarcane to mills, but 41 lines also provided passenger service.[1]
After the Second World War the network reached its peak of 3000 kilometers, of which 675 were for passengers.
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From 1950 approximately 275 kilometers were added: "The North-South Parallel Preparatory Line". This connected all sugar factories.
However, this was quickly shortened after a natural disaster, and increasingly after each disaster. The last part closed in 1998.[3]
The only line still used to carry sugarcane today is the Magongcuo Line in Huwei, Yunlin, though five other lines are partly preserved as heritage railways.[4][5]
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